Will Warner support Blu-ray part 2 ?

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  1. Shifty Geezer

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    Reluctant as I am to get involved in this thread that shouldn't exist, it seems Amirm has contradicted iknowall's assertions the h.264 isn't worth using in BluRay.

    So at 50+ megabit/s there's little difference, but at lower bitrates other CODECs have better image quality, and lower bitrate CODECs are prefferable to fit more on a disk.

    Obviously I haven't been following this thread, but from what I remember of the other (locked because it was pointless bickering) thread, iknowall was saying MPEG4 couldn't manage the same quality as MPEG2 because it couldn't go up to as high bitrates. Amirm doesn't appear to agree with this, and instead thinks at higher bitrates MPEG2 is similar in quality, and on all lower bitrates more advanced CODECs will produce better results. Amirm agrees with what everyone else was saying : MPEG4 gives better results than MPEG2. There are no quality reasons for chosing MPEG2 over h.264, contrary to iknowall's claims.

    But the biggest question is why this thread isn't locked when it's just more of the same of the other thread?
     
  2. iknowall

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    And since when it was considered hig for mpeg2 ?
     
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  3. iknowall

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    :roll:

    You have really bad and short memory, not surprising

    This discussion is so lame that i was accused to dont have undestanded what amirm say,
    here was what amirm implied with that quote for "real" :



    :roll: Ok Tom say 40 and Amirm say 50 but it is no near the 200Mbit/sec. aaronpink claim
    saying that i have no reading comprension


    Obviously you are biased, i said that at lower compression ratio you get a better image quality, so that for both mpeg2 and mpeg4 you can get a better image quality with 20:1 compression than with a 40 :1 compressio ratio.


    I stated that with the Dcinema 80Mbit/sec. hi bitrate mpeg2 look stunning and that encoding experience let you to have more easy and cheaper an exellent result so it is not true that you can get the same result with a 40Mbit/sec. mpeg2 and a 20Mbit/sec. mpeg4 with the same cost and time and or no one would using mpeg2 if it was not a codec that easyer and CHEAPER give you an exellent quality at hi bitrate.


    Here a quote from Tom :

    Thare is something called encoding cost and facilities to obtain a certain quality. You have no experience in professional industial encoding and have no idea of exaclty how much harder is obtain the same quality using mpeg4 or mpeg2, nor you have an idea of the cost of the hw , how much post lab alredy do it and have a experience ecc. ecc.

    Is useless talk about theorical number if we don't know if these number will never be reals.


    You wont undestand also how useless is wanting to compare a codec made for a lower bitrate situation in an hi bitrare situation like 80Mbit/sec , no one will use that codecs in hi bitrare situation.

    You seems to have miss the real mining of this quote :

    Why he have hear no one using a 100Mbit/sec. bitrare with mpeg4 also ?



    :roll:
    Because you are not trolling enough , is clear why you want this closed
    :roll:
    Go to make another offensive Pvt
     
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  4. iknowall

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    Here is clear how you are a liar. Attack of the clones Dcinema 2048 x 1080 version, what do you had at home to compete with the Dcinema version and that outclassed it ?

    And what SVGA digital projector ? The Dcinema is a 2k standard and the first official Barco dcinema projector is a 2k projector.


    And you want to compare an lcd $6,995 720p projector with 2200 lumens and 900:1 contrast ratio with an 80.000$ 3-chip DLP™ Professional Series projectors with 2048 x 1080 native resolution, 20.000 ansi lumen and a 2000:1 contrast ratio ?


    Do you have an idea of what are you saying ?


    This is not an HT projector this is an $80.000 digital theater projector .

    Sorry but this cannot appens or it is illegal. You don't know what are you talking about. Dcinema Projector are begin selected and have some spec that are requied for the digital projection.

    A Dcinema projector wont even let you to stretch the picture because everithing have to be projected like it is in the original version.

    No major let you to project a movie with a quality that is not a Dcinema quality.

    That's why Dcinema are growing up slowly, a 35mm projector are a lot less expansive than a Dcinema projector.



    HT setups near the 80.000$ price range ?

    you wont undertand that the Dcinema Dp100 use the more advanced 3 chip DLP tecnology exist today.


    Useless damage control.

    I always specifically talked about dual layer blu ray disc and a future four layer blu ray disc.

    But you seems to have missed this news :

    "AFAIK Matsushita, which has no film library unlike Sony, prefers high bitrate MPEG2 for the time being because of the lower cost in the package contents business.

    http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/lifestyle/articles/0502/13/news002_4.html

    According to this article in Feb 2005, Keisuke Suetsugu, the head of Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory who was formerly at Digital Video Compression Corporation and did encoding for famous DVD titles such as Apollo 13 and Star Wars Episode IV, said H.264 requires high engineering skill and tools development to get better image quality while everyone, even without expert encoding skill, can encode with nice image quality by relatively high 24Mbps MPEG2 available in BD-ROM with a larger space."


    How many Hd master did you have encoded with mpeg2 and mpeg4 to know exaclt how much hard is to obtain an hi quality mpeg4 encoding and an mpeg2 ecoding ?


    Sorry to break it to you but it's up to the major to decide what bitrare use with a dual layer
    blu ray disc.
     
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    Well you have a max of around 9mbit and very few if any(?) DVD's comes with an average bitrate above 7mbit on the video stream.

    You do understand that 1080p with 40mbit is nothing special compared to the DVD bitrates and resolution?
     
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    And how this classify 7Mbit an high bitrate for mpeg2 ? Using an higer bitrate than 7Mbit for an sd resolution give you a lot more quality.

    It is not an hi bitrate for mpeg2, it is just that dvd have a max bitrate limited.

    Do you mean in the real word ? Where the result is not a theorical number but a real video and the quality depend on the skills of the encoder, the experience, the maturity of the tollset ecc. ?

    The encoding engs seems to think overthise.

    But since you wont beleave me :
     
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    Well considering that we will have a Max bitrate on BR of around 54mbit it's feasible to say that a average MPEG2 encode on BR would be end up at around 45mbit.

    But is 6 times the bitrate for 6 times the resolution enough?
     
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    It is more than enough of a skilled encoder eng.

    See the post above.
     
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    Explain how 7 mbit on a DVD isn't enough but at 6 times the resolution the same amount of bit pr pixel is enough?
     
  10. iknowall

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    7Mbit/sec. is more than enough for an sd resolution to give a very good quality and if you are bitrare limited the eng do it's best to have the best quality you can get for an 8 bit consumer level.

    That's said, this dont define 7Mbit at an "very hi bitrate" range itself , 80Mbit/sec. is a very hig bitrate range for the mpeg2 codec itself for a 10 Bit level on the Dcinema, but for an 8bit consumer level 40Mbit is more than enough.

    If you want more evidence here is a news :


    AFAIK Matsushita, which has no film library unlike Sony, prefers high bitrate MPEG2 for the time being because of the lower cost in the package contents business.

    http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/lifestyle/articles/0502/13/news002_4.html

    According to this article in Feb 2005, Keisuke Suetsugu, the head of Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory who was formerly at Digital Video Compression Corporation and did encoding for famous DVD titles such as Apollo 13 and Star Wars Episode IV, said H.264 requires high engineering skill and tools development to get better image quality while everyone, even without expert encoding skill, can encode with nice image quality by relatively high 24Mbps MPEG2 available in BD-ROM with a larger space."
     
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  11. scificube

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    Can you give a rest iknowall? I mean...at this point no one is going to change their position including yourself so this whole exercise seems pointless. No new info is here for anyway that's curious and the debate is dry and tired.

    Please. Let it go.
     
  12. iknowall

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    Not myself included, i don't change my position if an anonymous user state an opinion that is aganist my experience.

    I would change my position if a trusthed and experienced hollywood encoder eng say that based on "X" test he made is easyer get an exellent quality with H.264 than with an hi bitrate mpeg2.

    But you are right if there are users that refuse to accept even what hollywood encoders engs say about the mpeg2 and the H.264 quality result , it is a pointless discussion.
     
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    Digital theaters existed BEFORE 2k d-cinema. There was no single distribution format, as digital theater installations were run (in 2002) by service companies that used their own proprietary technology. The best you could get in 2002 was 1.3K, but the reality was, 1280x1024.


    No, I want to compare an $8995 WXGA projector with 2200 lumens and 900:1 to a (SXGA, sorry, not SVGA) 1280x1024 PJ with actual measured 300:1 CR in 2002.

    I never said it outclasses the best available unit you could buy today, only that it outclasses many of the PJ's still used in theatres, which are overwhelming Christie units that are <= 1.3K. You constantly talk about vaporware shit that isn't even widely deployed in theaters yet.


    The spec didn't exist in 2002 when I was enjoying Attack of the Clones in the theater.

    Yes, there are people on AVSFORUM with setups well over $200,000. My own HT is approaching $30,000. I could buy 3 Sony Qualia's stack them, and blow away Barco quality. DLP is inferior to SXRD.

    A future which won't exist.

    But you seems to have missed this news :

    And they have decided overwhelmingly to go with either VC-1/H.264 on 9Gigabyte, VC-1/H.264 on 25Gb/30gb, or 24Mbps MPEG-2 on 25Gb/30Gb. None of the major studios have announced that they will ship >24Mbps dual layer discs. They are having trouble as it is with costs on single layer formats.

    If you look at the history of DVD9 and DVD15, it's obvious what's going to happen on BR. (HD-DVD is difference since it takes advantage of work already done on manufacturing DVD9 and DVD15).

    Why don't you perform this experiment. For each studio supporting HD-DVD and BR, go track down what format they are supporting and what codec they plan to release movies on. Number of studios planning to support Dual Layer 40+mbps MPEG-2 BR? ZERO.
     
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    Yes and no, they did not used their own technology , Star wars episode 2 was projected using the same Dcinema format used today, the avica server file sistem plus the barco Dcine Projector.

    At first when the Dcinema started for a short period of time was used the Barco Dp50 ,
    it was the first official Dtheater projectorand and it had a resolution of 1.3k, you are probably refering at this


    But it was only for a limited period of time because it was alredy stated that the Dcinema had to be a 2k standard and the Dp50 was fast replaced with the 2k Dp100.

    2k is the official standard Dcinema resolution because it is considerated the resolution needed to match the quality of the 35mm projection.

    Like i said the model you are refeng at is the Barco Dp50 and at the time it's cost was 100.000$

    Here there is a news about it.

    "Brussels- May 14, 2002

    Bangkok to Bratislava … via North America. Barco D-Cine Premiere® installed globally for the industries largest ever digital movie release.
    Responding to an unprecedented demand for digital screenings of Star Wars II ‘The Attack of the Clones’ on it’s global release on May 16th Barco Digital Cinema has announced the installation of it’s D-Cine Premiere® digital projector in locations as far refollowing quickly on the THX announcement of it’s certification of the Barco D-Cine Premiere® digital projector, Barco Digital Cinema this month has confirmed the supply and successful installation sixteen of the twenty three Boeing Digital Cinema installations in North America and the UK.


    http://dcinematoday.com/dc/pr.aspx?newsID=60


    So here are the spec of the Barco Dp50 :

    3 x high resolution S-XGA DLP Cinema™ DMD™ Dark Metal 3 type , 1280x1024 , 1350:1
    contrast ratio

    http://www.barco.com/media/en/products/product_specs.asp?element=607

    NO it not had a 300:1 contrast ratio it got a 1350 : 1 contrast ratio, see above.

    No it is no near to outclass the barco DP50, not even near, sorry.

    Sorry the spec existed , the only difference from today was that the Dp50 is replaced with the dp100.

    Was alredy stated that 2k was the standard even if for a period of time was used the Dp50 with an 1.3k resolution.

    But like i said, your Pj is no near to outclass the Dp50, sorry.

    I was talking about the cost of the Dp100 projector alone, 80.000$ is only the cost of the Barco Dp100.

    But actualy there is also the Christie cp-2000H , 3 DLP chip 2048x1080 that cost 500.000$ alone.

    If there are people that use projectors at the same price range it will match clearly, but
    your pj don't absolutly outclass the Barco Dcinema prtojector used in the 2002.

    So you are stating that Dual layer blu ray disc will never be out ?


    What you say make no sense, really. It is only up to the producer to decide what bitrate using, and it is only a matter of a time once the Dual layer blu ray disc will be out and became cheaper enough.

    If a producer want to make a version with the higest video quality you can get he will use the higest bitrate availbe with the disc.

    How many producers do you know ?

    Sony have alredy stated that they will be using only Mpeg2, and i can assure you that they will use the higest bitrate they can get in the dual layer blu ray disc also.

    Have you ever heard of something called "superbit version" ?
     
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    No, Barco were just one of MANY of the deployed D-cinema solutions. Christie and Digital Projection, Inc also had theater installations for AOTC, and in fact, Christie had a larger marketshare than Barco back then.

    I am referring to all three DCine projectors that licensed the 1280x1024 DMD and DigiPro DMD chips. I hope you realize of course, that they are all three based on TI's prototype reference design.

    Nope. Clearly, you are unfamiliar with the market and simply search on google for the first hit that satisfies your preconceived notions, since you make the fallacious assumption that only Barco exists. How is the hell do you arrive at the idea that Barco DP50 is the only PJ that showed Attack of the Clones in 2002 from a lame ass press release?

    I was in fact referring to the Christie DigiPro and DCP series, which was installed in several theaters in the Bay Area. In fact, if you look at both Christie and Barco websites, you'll see that over 50% of Digital Cinemas worldwide are 1.3K.

    Wow, and that one PR newswire proves that only Barco projectors were in theaters in 2002? Why not try putting "Christie" "Attack of the Clones" into Google you moron.

    For someone who is supposedly an "expert" on Digital Cinema projectors, you seem to know very little about digital front projection. Like the difference between a darkroom laboratory uncalibrated projector test of On/Off CR vs a installed and calibrated On/Off CR.

    In 2002, there were 3+ mastering formats for digital cinema, and AOTC was mastered in all three.

    Well, for a standard, it's being ignored, because 1/2 of Barco's world installations of D-Cine projectors are 1.3K. Of course, if you understood economics, you'd understand why theaters have reservations about digital theater installations.

    Well, there are insane people at AVSFORUM willing to go that far, however 10,000+ LUMENS projected onto a typical HT screen would most certainly result in retina burns, so it would be unsafe and stupid, without a massive neutral density filter.


    Digital Cinema projectors are expensive because of the market size and type (B2B instead of B2C), as well as the expensive bulbs and lenses. They are not expensive because they are so superior in quality. Lumens are the enemy of quality, and the best projection quality often comes from the dimmer projectors. They also need anamorphic lenses to convert the DMD output up to 2.35 ratios, over long throw distances. This means expensive optics, and an expensive optics interface.

    Digital Cinema projectors have to be designed to deal with achieving atleast 12 to 16-foot lumens on huge screens (40'+). HT PJs only need to deal with 8-10ft screens max, under more controlled situations. Most HT PJs today sport better CR and ANSI CR than the best D-Cine projectors.


    How many do you know, Mr Expert? Where to do you work? Who are you? Which films have you worked on? Let's see you resume. Stop trotting out your so-called expertise if you're going to be a coward. Your Hero, Amir on AVSFORUM has made a habit of demanding that people who debate him divulge their identities.

    Why would they? What economic sense would it make for Sony to do it? Most movies will fit on one disc, and it will be substantially cheaper to produce an SL disc, and most consumers won't notice the difference. Sony would only be hurting their margins. If they produced DL discs, it would be for much rarer circumstances where it was an absolute neccessity (e.g. ridiculuous amounts of bonus features, like the extended LOTR trilogy discs)

    I own numerous SuperBit DVDs. They are a market failure. Most people aren't willing to go out of their way to buy them, and as a consequence, there aren't many superbit DVDs. So if anything, SuperBit merely provides evidence that you're wrong.

    If DL 50Mbps BR discs are as rare as SuperBits, your whole argument is once again, in the toilet. Why not ask Amir what he thinks? You like to selectively quote "experts" as long as they agree with you. On this issue, Amir was thoroughly disagree with you, but I guess, Amir's wrong, and you're right?
     
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    The discussion, once again turned into the one locked earlier.

    If someone starts a new thread about BR, why no, but it better not be about "who can tell which one of the codecs available has the better image quality".
     
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