Mitsubishi's AVCREC Blu-ray recorders stuff HD content onto standard DVDs

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Harry D @ Mar 18th 2008 10:48AM

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When compression is done properly it is a space saver while preserving the beauty of the image. DVDs are compressed within an inch of their lives using the old MPEG2, and they still look great. The main problem is that they're standard def (720X480).

Nothing is infinite (except for human stupidity, to paraphrase Einstein), and even BR disks have finite space. Which means compression. I work in this industry, and believe me, there's nothing on the consumer front that has both capacity and, especially, bandwidth, to play full HD uncompressed. And wait for 4K to come.

All the modern codecs, including AVCHD, are really brilliant pieces of engineering. And remember - the point of engineering is not to use as much horsepower as possible (anyone can do that), but to make something that's robust, yet with as little resources as possible.

The point is, if it looks good, who cares how much it's compressed?

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