We are basically in agreement.

Posted by Jack G (A) on April 15, 2007 at 08:46:02

In Reply to: audio quality posted by Joe Murphy Jr on April 14, 2007 at 18:06:09:

Warner does some TrueHD, but not on all movies. Universal does none. It doesn't seem to be a high priority with the HD DVD group. Oddly, I hear Wienstein/Genius does a better job.

>>>Kong came in at 27.4GB total, so no lossless.<<<
Well, yes that's ture, and this comes up alot, but according to Amir in the AVS insider's thread :
"The video part is not a fixed number. One can fine tune it more and squeeze it down as needed. Remember that the quality curve for VC-1 is highly exponential and approaches a very horizontal asymptote quickly. So looking at the file size for video doesnâ€™t tell you anything about what else you could put in there.

Put another way, when the bit budget is allocated for the various parts of the title, the data rate for video is dialed in and then encoding begins. Any trouble spots are then optimized. Given this process, you canâ€™t say that the file size had to be the number that was picked. A smaller number could be picked with potentially more hand tuning needed without degradation to the movie. "

I don't know if this would work though.
Of course, since its Universal the point is moot.:-(
Jack

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Topic - Samsung to make dual player - Jack G 05:04:20 04/13/07 (20)

Universal is the only major studio not releasing blu-ray at the moment - Jazz Inmate 10:36:55 04/13/07 (18)

Not likely any time soon, if ever. - Jack G 11:32:43 04/13/07 (17)

Blu-Ray needs to win this fight. - oscar 06:29:58 04/14/07 (16)

Nonsense - Jack G 06:56:59 04/14/07 (15)

no lossless or uncompressed pcm - Joe Murphy Jr 13:04:50 04/14/07 (4)

I'd want the HD video with uncompressed 24/192 or SACD 5.1 audio tracks. - oscar 09:07:26 04/16/07 (0)

Re: no lossless or uncompressed pcm - Jack G 17:00:42 04/14/07 (2)

audio quality - Joe Murphy Jr 18:06:09 04/14/07 (1)

We are basically in agreement. - Jack G 08:46:02 04/15/07 (0)

So you don't think the extra storage space is needed ? - oscar 07:20:33 04/14/07 (9)

No - Jack G 11:15:45 04/14/07 (4)

I don't expect "new" BD movies to NOT work on "old" BD players. - oscar 11:23:27 04/14/07 (3)

Unknown - Jack G 11:47:19 04/14/07 (2)

Re: Unknown - oscar 19:10:25 04/14/07 (1)

Re: Unknown - Jack G 08:11:02 04/15/07 (0)

BR MAY be theoretically superior, but I consider Sony the Microsoft of consumer electronics--a monopolistic bully... - jeffreybehr 10:42:30 04/14/07 (3)

Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. - oscar 11:16:18 04/14/07 (2)

Re: Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. - dbphd 11:34:22 04/15/07 (1)

Since you brought it up, I've been blessed with having to work in a Unix environment. - oscar 16:37:39 04/15/07 (0)

Better link - Jack G 05:15:53 04/13/07 (0)

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We are basically in agreement.

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