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In Reply to: What's the deal with Superbit discs? posted by bubbahotep on February 15, 2002 at 01:12:48:
And worth it. The picture is finely detailed with no motion artifacts and the colors are vibrant and perfectly hued.And the sound is to die for, both DDS and DTS.
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DTS IS ONLY HALF RATE !
if they sell enough, maybe C-TS will cut the video bitrate down a little so that we can have full bitrate DTS. I think the care taken to properly author a DVD has a greater impact than the bitrate of the video (within reason, of course). If C-TS really wants to give us "real" SuperBit, then we need DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete at full bitrate. If this were the case, I'd be willing to spend $25-$30 instead of the $20-$25 for a DVD. Are you listening C-TS? An extra $5 a disc for you!
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Superbit is not all it's cracked up to be. Whoever does the compression and sets the bit rate merely allows a higher rate and gobbles up more of the disc space. This is not a big deal anymore because many DVD's are now dual layer and even dual disc/dual layer so there isn't the need to compress info as much any more. Two examples of movies I have recently purchased that are NOT labelled
Superbit, but are by definition: "Moulin Rouge" and "Shrek" PROOF?
Just look at your bit rate meter and it is virtually bouncing off 10 megabit all the time on both of them.(Of course we all know that 10mbit is the maximum rate used by MPEG2 for DVD's). I had the opportunity to watch "5th Element" in both versions. I can't honestly say that I could see much difference in detail or visible artifacts when comparing them. The main difference was that the original was averaging about 4 to 5 mbit/second most of the time and the Superbit one was virtually between 8 and 10 mbit all the time.
Looked real good to me. I'll buy more, if I don't already have it. The most expensive single DVD I've ever bought, excepting Apocalypse Now Redux that cost a $1 more...
What's up? These are the only SuperBit DVDs available:
Thanks for the link. I must have been mistaken about the title but the price of the disc, with tax, would have meant laying down close to 50 bucks.
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I e-mailed the suggestion that they should consider releasing a Superbit version of Starship Troopers (it's a Columbia/Tri-Star release; so there should be no problem obtaining rights). As SF/bug movies go this one's hard to top; it would be a visually stunning superbit release, IMHO.Audiophilander
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