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In Reply to: Which ultimately is the better quality format, laserdisc or DVD? posted by John C. - Aussie on November 19, 2001 at 20:23:29:
DVD is recorded in a progressive format and is available as a component signal. These two features alone make it in therory
a much better format. Using a line doubler or other such toys does help when using a LD. The poor old LD is recorded as a composite signal. This can smooth out some of the errors and noise though. The audio on a good DVD kills the LD. But as always, Garbage in Garbage out. I just got the SuperBit "Fifth Element". If you think a LD could look and sound this good Ive got a bridge I'd like to sell ya..:-) I master DVDs for my production
company and there are some artifacts with DVD I hate. But you can't compare it to Satalite compresion and certainly not to VHS.
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That the audio on a DVD "kills" that on LD? They're both Dolby Digital!Your comments about the signal components are true enough. You can't even benefit from S-video with LD. However, LD has the potential to deliver the better picture. It's uncompressed. Only the vagaries of analog noise due to pressing variations really hamper it.
The more you watch DVD, the more obvious the compression is. It's actually pretty pathetic that we're suffering worse and worse quality all the time, thanks to compression. Digital cell phones have reduced wireless conversations to primitive attempts to signal each other. Satellite TV looks almost as bad as the cable service that drove so many to it in the first place.
And what drives this? Public ignorance and corporate greed.
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