← Back to context Comment by Giefo6ah 5 hours ago It's often better than a 5 Mbps 1080p 3 comments Giefo6ah Reply kllrnohj 4 hours ago Since DVDs are ~5mbps mpeg2, no, no it isn't. 5 mbps h264 is dramatically better.Now, when compared to blu-ray... That's different. Very, very different. Giefo6ah 1 hour ago Most feature DVDs are 8 Mbps.It's certainly blurrier than Netflix, but dark scenes, grain and textures are usually much more detailed on a DVD nonetheless. hamdingers 3 hours ago h264 is (generously) about 2x as efficient as MPEG-2, granted, but you're smearing those 5mbps across 6x as many pixels.I would take crisp 480p over a gooey, artifact-softened 1080p for most content.
kllrnohj 4 hours ago Since DVDs are ~5mbps mpeg2, no, no it isn't. 5 mbps h264 is dramatically better.Now, when compared to blu-ray... That's different. Very, very different. Giefo6ah 1 hour ago Most feature DVDs are 8 Mbps.It's certainly blurrier than Netflix, but dark scenes, grain and textures are usually much more detailed on a DVD nonetheless. hamdingers 3 hours ago h264 is (generously) about 2x as efficient as MPEG-2, granted, but you're smearing those 5mbps across 6x as many pixels.I would take crisp 480p over a gooey, artifact-softened 1080p for most content.
Giefo6ah 1 hour ago Most feature DVDs are 8 Mbps.It's certainly blurrier than Netflix, but dark scenes, grain and textures are usually much more detailed on a DVD nonetheless.
hamdingers 3 hours ago h264 is (generously) about 2x as efficient as MPEG-2, granted, but you're smearing those 5mbps across 6x as many pixels.I would take crisp 480p over a gooey, artifact-softened 1080p for most content.
Since DVDs are ~5mbps mpeg2, no, no it isn't. 5 mbps h264 is dramatically better.
Now, when compared to blu-ray... That's different. Very, very different.
Most feature DVDs are 8 Mbps.
It's certainly blurrier than Netflix, but dark scenes, grain and textures are usually much more detailed on a DVD nonetheless.
h264 is (generously) about 2x as efficient as MPEG-2, granted, but you're smearing those 5mbps across 6x as many pixels.
I would take crisp 480p over a gooey, artifact-softened 1080p for most content.