What's worse is that they have no idea what they're talking about when they spew out random jabs like "higher bit rates on Blu-ray." They automatically assume more is better/superior. A skilled compressionist can do an excellent job with the medium average bit rates offered on HD DVD. As codecs improve (likely 50% over the course of its use), bit rates will become wholly irrelevant as they did on DVD. The MPEG-2 encoders now are so efficient that it's remarkable how good DVD picture quality can get on modern releases.
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Charles @ Feb 21st 2008 9:39PM
What's worse is that they have no idea what they're talking about when they spew out random jabs like "higher bit rates on Blu-ray." They automatically assume more is better/superior. A skilled compressionist can do an excellent job with the medium average bit rates offered on HD DVD. As codecs improve (likely 50% over the course of its use), bit rates will become wholly irrelevant as they did on DVD. The MPEG-2 encoders now are so efficient that it's remarkable how good DVD picture quality can get on modern releases.