Posted by
James Gibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Space-1999-now-out-on-Blu-ray-disc-tp1814842p4022363.html
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 07:40:20 +0100
Branko Vekic <
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> Thanks Marc!
> Knowing it wasn't HD and it was an old transfer (which was more
> than decent), I was hoping that maybe the encoding and
> compression would use the benefits of the format, but it seems
> they just copied existing DVD's to blu ray.
Blu Ray is quite a nice medium for standard definition content
- can get a whole TV series on one disk. But given that it's most
often used for HD material, it can certainly be misleading.
I'd hope that it's plainly marked on the packaging as being
standard definition?
James
>
> On 05.02.2013., at 22:29, "Marc Martin" <
[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
> > On February 5, Branko Vekic
[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > If anybody has UFO blu rays from Germany (Marc, looking
> > > meaningfully at you :), can you please confirm if the
> > > encoding and compression are any better then on the DVD's
> > > if resolution isn't? Thanks!
> >
> > The German UFO Blu-ray discs encoding & compression are
> > exactly the same as if they were from a DVD -- that is, they
> > use MPEG-2 compression and the episode file sizes are around
> > 2GB each.
> >
> > Marc
> >
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