Posted by Tricky Dicky on 06/24/06 10:05

"Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Tricky Dicky wrote:
>> "Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>>> Tricky Dicky wrote:
>>>> "the dog from that film you saw"
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>>>>>
>>>>> <mmaker@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>>>>>> the dog from that film you saw wrote:
>>>>>>> i'm saying 'superbit' dvds are everyday normal dvds and in no way
>>>>>>> special.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, they have a higher bit-rate so potentially less compression
>>>>>> artifacts.
>>>>>
>>>>> no! - that's the point.
>>>>> sure they may have a higher bit rate than some, but there's plenty
>>>>> of dvds out there with identical bitrates that just happen to not
>>>>> have a certain word printed on the cover.
>>>>
>>>> So if a company released a standard bitrate DVD and then released a
>>>> higher bitrate version it would still be worth getting?
>>>>
>>>> I was not naive enough to think the whole "superbit" branding was
>>>> not a marketing man's wet dream - but there had to be some actual
>>>> improvement over the previous release
>>>>
>>>> I daresay there are non superbit disks that have lower bitrates than
>>>> so called normal disks
>>>>
>>>
>>> The point is, if all dvds that are released under the "superbit"
>>> label, were instead released under a label called "Supreme" (or
>>> anything else), nobody would be even quoting them as "technically
>>> superior" -except to say that their quality can be of a high
>>> standard.. on the whole. All discs are normal discs -including
>>> "superbit" discs. I heard
>>> someone say recently that the "standard" Panic Room dvd has a higher
>>> bitrate than the 1-disc (more expensive) "Superbit" release of the
>>> same movie. I've seen some "Superbit" dvds -eg. Resident Evil and 5th
>>> Element.
>>> Apart from being almost totally crap films (another feature of most
>>> Superbit releases), they looked good, but clearly no better than most
>>> other dvds.
>>
>> Okay.
>>
>> But the use of the word "superbit" implies this product is technically
>> superior.
>>
>> Surely, lawyer type people would not have allowed the use of a word
>> the infers technical superioty if it was a load of old bollocks?
>>
>
> Ha. It implies it in the mind of people who take it that way. Obviously
> they want to imply that. It doesn't make it so though.


Marketing men, heh. Bastards

Take care

Tricky

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