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  DVD or Blue-ray for HD

  Posted by Robertahdv21 on March 13, 2007 at 12:42 pm

  Other than the storage space issue, is they any reason to burn a HD project to Blue-ray as opposed to a DVD.
  The issue for me is that I have a short spot in HD and at 22 dollars a disc for Blue-ray I am not in the mood to blow that disc on a test to compare the diffrence.
  Thanks for the help!

  Bill Stephan replied 19 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Bill Stephan

  March 13, 2007 at 4:14 pm

  1. DVD-R and DVD drives can’t go fast enough to play the bitrates used in BD encoding very well. Getting nice looking HD requires encoding picture at 14-24Mb/Sec, and the BD-spec supports up to 40Mb/Sec.

  2. When you burn a BD project to DVD-R, you are creating a non-standard project that might or might not play on a variety of software players (forget settop players). Your mileage may vary.

  Bill Stephan
  Senior Editor/DVD Author
  USA Studios
  New York City

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