Originally posted by: lordjedi
I think this is what MBJ has been getting at. Once HD-DVD is gone, what makes you think the studios are going to use a higher bitrate? They have no incentive to do that. "We'll get better picture quality!" The studios don't care. All they care about is making money. With HD-DVD gone, that'll be one less expense. Why bother with going with a higher bitrate when the picture looks fine as it is?
I think this is what MBJ has been getting at. Once HD-DVD is gone, what makes you think the studios are going to use a higher bitrate? They have no incentive to do that. "We'll get better picture quality!" The studios don't care. All they care about is making money. With HD-DVD gone, that'll be one less expense. Why bother with going with a higher bitrate when the picture looks fine as it is?
Thats simply unfounded paranoia. Theres no extra cost for a higher bitrate. Right now their ceiling is 30 GB, so they press the buttons to make it under that. They are encoding for HD-DVD. When HD-DVD is gone, they will be encoding for Blu-Ray. Their ceiling is 50 GB so they press the buttons to make it under that. If there was extra costs associated then maybe you might have a point but theres not. The reason encodes are in the 20 GB range is because of HD-DVD--once thats gone the range will change.