RE: Blu-Ray

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saw that Jim has signed - lets see how many UKHA_D names turn up ;)

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Simon Coates
> Sent: 01 February 2007 09:34
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Blu-Ray
>
> Chris,
>
> Have a look at this site
>
> http://www.hdnowonline.com/
>
> It seems that BD could cause the collapse of Sony!!!
>
> Regards
>
> Simon
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Chris Hunter
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Sent: 31 January 2007 23:12
>   Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Blu-Ray
>
>
>   I'm surprised .... 'would have expected them to preserve the 24fps
> ...
>
>   DVDs play pretty well, and now it seems that's both despite them
> being
>   both expanded low-res & wrong-speeded ...
>
>   very surprised !
>
>   Chris
>
>   Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:12:25 +0000
>   From: Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxx>
>
>   in this month's Which? they mention that the image wasn't so good on
> the
>   occasion of the UK launch ... because the discs were formatted at
> 24fps
>   (movie standard) but played on a European DVD player working at
25fps
>   ... losts of juddering, apparently ...
>
>   goodness ... IFRC ... 24fps has been the standard for movies since I
>   don't know when ... how on earth would they be converted to 25fps
>   without a lot of interpolation etc - ie: significant loss of quality
> ... ?
>
>   I can't believe it !
>
>   Chris
>
>   ----
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>   Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:38:48 +0000
>   From: Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxx>
>
>   I thought they just played them at 25fps - ie slightly faster and
> with
>   the audio pitched up a tiny bit. That would also explain why the
>   running times on PAL disks are a little shorter than would otherwise
> be
>   expected.
>
>   Mal
>
>   ---
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>   Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:45:38 +0000
>   From: Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxx>
>
>   In PAL-land, 24fps material is normally just straight converted to
>   25/50fps (frames/fields) and played back 4% quicker (ie no
>   interpolation).
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>   In NTSC-land they do a 3:2 pulldown.
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#3:2_pulldown_.28technically.
>   2C_2:3_pulldown.29
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>   In the digital world, it's entirely possible to undo all this
>   nastiness before the images appear on your screen:
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p#1080i_film-
>   based_content_can_become_true_1080p
>
>   Jim
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