Post #255474

Author: Laserman
Parent topic: Star Wars HD coming in November! All SIX movies!
Link to post in topic: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255474/action/topic#255474
Date created: 7-Nov-2006, 11:04 PM

They do it because even Dual core Conroes have trouble keeping up with the demands of playback of H264 material at those bitrates.
Re-encoding to MPEG2 means that a 3.2GHz machine can keep up, but you lose quality in the re-encode.

And no, there would be no point watching them on a standard TV, but even on a small computer monitor it is worth a look to see the detail.