DivX Inc. has announced the DivX Certification of an upcoming Panasonic-brand Blu-ray Disc player. The Blu-ray player joined an array other Panasonic products that sport the DivX Certified logo on packaging, and is scheduled to begin shipping in March. It will be the first DivX Certified Blu-ray player available in Europe and Russia.
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Originally posted by Ryu77: All of what you are saying is rubbish. DivX was not made for games. What are you talking about? Yes, you can fit a re-encoded 1080p movie onto a DVD9. It wont be as good as the original Blu-ray source but it will be a whole lot better than SD DVD. You even said so in that August 2007 thread I quoted. It's right there in plain English!
i see you never even bothered to read my post then!
Originally posted by myself above post that you even quoted ryu: as i stated the format (divx,xvid) was introduced as a way to squeeze a dvd film to fit onto a cdr with the best quality possible in sound and picture to save on the cost of dvd +/- media, this is impossible on blu-ray with a full 1080p picture and HD sound not just 5.1, as you can only fit it onto a bdr disc.
divx for a backup codec is pointless on blu-ray unless its home movies with the wife/mistress then that's worth the price of the disc but why reduce the quality to put it onto the same media with no benefit whatsoever to normal consumers as there is NO financial gain and btw a 720p encoded dvd looks exactly the same as and on a small screen <50" at the normal 10 feet there is little difference in picture quality imho i'd stick with DVD up-scaled over an expensive pointless format.
one benefit is that divx can be utilised for in game video which is an improvement over the vcd format that was used for in game video! maybe sony are planning an advertising campaign all encoded in divx!
Originally posted by Ryu77: nobrainer, a regular DVD is not 720p! It is either 576p or 480p. DivX/DivX HD does not have to be on Blu-ray media!
If you don't want to read my post then please do some research about this.
PS: Please excuse me for wording my point about DivX poorly. What I meant to say was DivX wasn't created only for in game video (CGI etc.). You obviously already know that which backs up my whole point even further.
what part of "cannot fit" do you not understand? do you know about data size and disc space or are you being purposely obtuse
nobrainer, I am not the only one here that is saying DivX HD fits on regular DVD discs. Are you going to argue with dRD?...
Originally posted by dRD: Yes it will, the ability to play HD-rez DivX movies is the key point here -- people are here mixing "upscaling of non-HD DivX" and "playing HD DivX with no resolution tweaking". Panasonic player offers both. And yes, well-encoded HD material fits on one standard DVDR. Most movies in 720p (even 1080p) resolution, using latest DivX with standard AC3 audio and no menus should fit nicely on single layer DVDR with no significant quality loss (should beat upscaled DVD any given day).
Originally posted by nobrainer: what part of "cannot fit" do you not understand? do you know about data size and disc space or are you being purposely obtuse
Of course I understand how much data can fit on various types of media. CD-R = 650mb or 700mb, DVD+/-R = 4.7gb (4500mb usable space), DVD+/-R DL = 8.5gb (8000mb usable space), Blu-ray/BD-R = 25gb single layer or 50gb dual layer. Can I ask, do you understand the concept of bitrate and resolution choice? An end user of any decent video encoding application has the choice to manipulate these two variables as they see fit.
nobrainer, arguing with you is like trying to prove a point to a little Kid. It is amazing how in that August 2007 thread you said completely the opposite...
Originally posted by nobrainer: if you strip out all the unnecessary languages, flashy menus, crap and tacky extras and just keep the film with your preferred audio there will be little or no drop in quality when ripped to a dvd9.
Q. who purchases a dvd/blu-ray/hd-dvd fro the extras and commentaries ect?
I know much more than you think I do about video encoding, why don't you search the forums and you will see countless posts where I have helped others. Your posts are clearly coming from a Blu-ray/Sony hating perspective. I am saying this on behalf of all the Blu-ray enthusiasts here that enough is enough.
I could post many more but I think you get the point. If you don't get the point, then you never will. I will just assume that I can't have any mature conversation with you and I will leave it at that.
I will finish on one small request, please let us be on the Blu-ray threads. We much prefer to have positive conversation about developing this technology further. No more DRM posts! No more Blu-ray hating posts. Please! We all get it... We are fully aware what DRM is. We all understand how much you don't like Blu-ray.
Originally posted by nobrainer: on a dvd9 you still have to pay £2 per disc, much higher than a dvd5 which you can purchase for as little as £0.05, or have reduced quality on a BD R disc that cost £20+ rendering the format pointless
actually, it's your argument that is pointless regarding this question because dual layer dvd discs can be picked up from 50p each now - a quarter of what you claim. Even the most expensive, top quality verbatim DL discs only cost £ 1.40 maximum.
as for blu ray discs - I have no idea where you get that figure from and I suspect likemuch else in your theories - you invented it yourself - blu ray BD-R discs from verbatim cost £ 5.99 each at the moment - not the £ 20 plus that you have pulled out of your imagination.
everyone is allowed to have their opinion but please don't try to validate it with totally incorrect invented figures.
