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Re: Not here in Canada. "Die Hard" was $40. (nt)

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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.


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