[X4U] Blu-ray vs HD

[Eugene]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:59:55PM CDT, Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Just a comment, but WOW. I guess I'm behind the times. But tonight I took 
> my mother to my company (Qualcomm) for a free movie. Just a fun thing we 
> get about once a month. (It was "Office Space".) Anyway, it was projected 
> on a movie-theater-size screen from a Blu-Ray DVD... HUGE... and it was 
> indistinguishable, to me anyway, from a regular film projection. 
> Incredible.

A hi-def Blu-ray disc only needs 20 Mb/s with MPEG-2 compression.
BDs using H.264 need half that bitrate for comparible quality.


-- 
Eugene
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/