Video Asylum

Posted by Information Central on December 04, 2001 at 19:21:20

In Reply to: Re: Which ultimately is the better quality format, laserdisc or DVD? posted by DMc on November 29, 2001 at 22:08:59:

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.