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It's often better than a 5 Mbps 1080p
by Giefo6ah 6mo ago
It's often better than a 5 Mbps 1080p
- kllrnohj 6mo agoSince 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.
- hamdingers 6mo agoh264 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 6mo agoMost 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.