Posts by d-range

Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell It gets more complicated than that. I've had some access to see how Hollywood studios encode movies for DVD. At least when it comes to big Hollywood movies where they care about the quality of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell You know there are multiple profiles that Blu-ray can support, they don't have to use H.264 Main Profile. Again this is technically true, but I'm pretty sure Main Profile is the minimum/least...

Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Blu-ray and streaming/downloading do not use the same encoder and are not really using the same exact codec. They both use a variant of H.264, but are using different profiles of it. I'm aware of...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX You can make a technical comparison to Monster cables over other cables to find Monster are technically superior but that doesn't mean you'll get a perceptible difference in quality over generic...

Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell They are showing the exact same still. So the comparison is fair. The comparison is fair for that particular clip of video, but you still cannot extrapolate that in any meaningful way. Even MPEG II...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Speaking of H.264 recently TV torrent uploaders have switched from AVI to H.264 for the simple reason it's common while offering better quality in a smaller package. Yet many of these torrenters...

Quote: Originally Posted by JavaCowboy None of you probably care, but this probably mean that Linux users either get left out entirely or have to install legally grey H.264 plugins themselves. There is nothing 'legally grey' about the...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I think it's a useful comparison. Regardless of the technical specifications people only care about how good it looks and sometimes a comparison is the only way to do that. Is the Blu-ray required...

Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ Most people at home don't watch their movies on a huge theatre screen. And I'm not so sure about your discs still spinning in the 22nd century. I have some DVD's that haven't even lasted 10 years...

This is a pretty useless comparison. Both Blu-Ray and iTunes content is H264. It's the same codec, and any quality improvement has to be in the encoder. A lower bitrate (=smaller file size) encoding with the same encoder and codec (and...