alt Hacker NewsSince DVDs are ~5mbps mpeg2, no, no it isn't. 5 mbps h264 is dramatically better.
Now, when compared to blu-ray... That's different. Very, very different.
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hamdingers • yesterday at 9:59 PM
h264 is (generously) about 2x as efficient as MPEG-2, granted, but you're smearing those 5mbps across 6x as many pixels.
I would take crisp 480p over a gooey, artifact-softened 1080p for most content.
Most feature DVDs are 8 Mbps.
It's certainly blurrier than Netflix, but dark scenes, grain and textures are usually much more detailed on a DVD nonetheless.