According to the BBC News Web site. This format can hopefully, change current Indian DVD qualities!

Blu-ray discs are getting quite a bit of publicity at the moment. But make no mistake this is not going to improve Indian films on this format; like I said another post without quality control measures Indian filmi guys are just going to use this format to make even more crap quality versions of the same films. Unless they improve their sources and authoring techniques its not going to improve the quality. Only hope is that some of the major Indian films will get distributed by mainstream Hollywood labels and they have the money and more importantly resources to make decent DVDs and HD-DVDs - as already seen from Lagaan and Asoka. Only hope YRF, Video Sound, Eros and DEI don’t touch this format and disgrace it like they’ve done with DVD.

Ali h:

eXACTLY WE ARE IN HANDS OF hopeless!! fADDY SHOULD FILL IN FOR ME PLS.?

I know what's Eros and gang gonna do. Buy 4 movies but in only one blu-ray dvd disc. That will get some cash flowing in Lulla's account. Oh shit I hope they are not reading this!

More on the next-gen DVD format;



http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20020301S0091

Ali

i read that! i have seen a full article, might send to u Ali!! i am getting nervous!! ab huumara in lulla ke hatoon kya hone/banane ka hai? oh lord, hamari raksha kareo!! Raama!:stupid:



Edited By arsh on Mar. 03 2002 at 15:02

Low Bit-Rate Hi-Def DVD?

By Barry Willis



March 4, 2002 — Just a week after a consortium of electronics companies announced its commitment to a new high-capacity DVD, the DVD Forum voted to approve the use of low-bit-rate compression for high-definition DVD. The vote was approved by 11 of the Forum's 17 members, with Matsushita, JVC, and Philips abstaining.
The February 26 vote will officially retain the use of red-laser-based optical discs, despite their larger pit size and resultant lower data capacity—4.7Gigabytes/disc versus the 27Gb/disc promised by "Blu-ray" technology.

The Blu-ray consortium consists of 9 companies—all of them members of the DVD Forum—who want to push forward with the technology as the emerging standard for computer drives and for consumer playback and video recording devices. A capacity of 27Gb is enough to accommodate 13 hours of standard definition television programming, or two hours of ultra-high-definition content.

The use of the MPEG-4 low-bit-rate encoding technology will allow engineers to put as much as 9GB of data, or 40 minutes of high-definition video content onto a two-layer red-laser DVD. The capacity is also sufficient for two full-length movies in 480i. The DVD Forum's technical working group has demonstrated that HD video can be recorded using red lasers and encoding rates as low as 7 Megabits per second (Mbps).

Both moves expand the potential of the DVD, the most successful new format in the history of the electronics industry. The use of low bit-rate compression will push the standard DVD beyond its present limits, while an agreement to develop Blu-ray technology to its maximum potential offers great promise for products to come. "We don't see Blu-ray as replacing DVD; rather, it complements the next-generation DVD format," said Chris Buma, program manager for A/V disk recording at Philips. Some companies have objected to what they see as a needlessly expensive rush into blue-laser technology.

Compatibility issues between the two formats are yet to be resolved. For Blu-ray players and recorders to succeed with consumers, they would need to be backward compatible with red-laser DVDs—including those encoded with MPEG-4. A similar situation faced designers of first-generation DVD players, who wisely chose to make them compatible with audio CDs.








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Edited By arsh on Mar. 08 2002 at 14:50