As in super bit. Up to 11Mbps ang video bitrate niya kapag 1-1/2
yung movie...Super linaw din kasi sa 32" na LCDTV eh!
It is not true that Superbit encodes at 11Mbps. According to Superbit itself, their DVDs are encoded at a bitrate "approximately twice as high (6-7 Mbit/s)" as standard DVDs.
But it is no longer correct to say that 7 Mbps is "twice as high" as regular DVDs, since newer DVD regular releases are now encoded at 8 Mpbs average. Therefore, the Superbit bitrate is in fact even lower than regular DVD bitrates these days!
Does this mean that Superbit DVDs are now irrelevant?
You bet they are. That's why Sony Pictures discontinued the Superbit line as early as January 18, 2007.
http://www.videobusiness.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6408427Up to 11Mbps ang video bitrate niya kapag 1-1/2 yung movie...Super linaw din kasi sa 32" na LCDTV eh!
Correct DVD specs require a maximum average video bitrate of 7 Mbps, or up to 8 Mbps maximum average for high-action content; and a maximum peak bitrate of 9.8 Mbps.
Contrary to popular belief, 11 Mbps is actually a bad spec because it violates SD DVD specifications.
That's why those Blu-ray to SD DVD cross-conversions are almost always defective.
On Blu-ray cross-converted to DVD-9, the picture is clear, as long as it is not in motion. Once the picture is in motion, the usual defects are judder/stutter and slow-motion/fast-motion. Sometimes the audio and video are out of sync. Sometimes the layer breaks are non-seamless, or badly positioned, or both.
If you think Blu-ray cross-converted to DVD-9 is better than the orig DVD, that's because you're comparing the fake DVD-9 BD to an old release of an orig DVD.
For example:
BD SD old release
The orig SD version on the right was good when it was first released, but it is now a low-quality DVD by today's standards.
BD SD new release
The new R1 SD release on the right is a remastered anamorphic version, much better than the old release.
Compare the fake DVD-9 BD with a new SD DVD release encoded from the new high-def master, and you'll see that the orig is always better than the fake.
