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DVD Video Quality

posted 15 years ago by nmartin-14
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I bought the DVD this past weekend and watched it. My only bet peeve about this release is the fact that it was interlaced only. Most DVDs, since 2002 at the very least, are encoded with progressive frames in such a way that they will work with interlaced and progressive DVD players (NTSC/Composite/S-Video and Component/HDMI respectively).

I had to turn on deinterlacing on the DVD playback software (VLC) because the interlacing was pretty annoying of which the deinterlace method is basically a blend between the fields in order to produce progressive frames which isn't perfect either, but does help.

According this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#DVDs

This DVD release basically used hard-telecined (raw MPEG-2 data is interlaced) method to store the video data instead of soft-telecined (raw MPEG-2 data is progressive). Overall, the video quality is worse than any of the Stargate Atlantis season or any of the last couple Stargate SG-1 season DVD releases.

I was very disappointed by the overall video quality. I bet if they hadn't been so cheap by doing the MPEG-2 encoding properly then the overall quality of the video would have been much better in my opinion. Especially now much space they actually used on the DVD media its self, only 5.85 GB (5.28 GB on actual movie) compared to say nearly 8GB (~7GB on actual movie) you typically see on good movie releases.

In my opinion this wasn't worth the $16 I paid at Walmart for it, maybe $7.50. Alright, I'll get off my soapbox and see if anybody chimes in on what they thought about it.

[–] WallyB 14 years ago

Ouch !

You should have waited a year, Just bought the movie triple-pack for $9.00

[–] TheCheezWhiz 13 years ago

Hmmmm, I perceived the picture detail and color timing to be noticably better than the original DVD release of the the pilot. Perhaps that was in part because I watched it upconverted from a Blu-ray player?

In any event, the audio commentary makes note of the fact it was shot on 16mm film rather than 35mm film as they used later. That may limit the picture quality more than the encoding.

"I may be wrong but that's just my opinion." Dennis Miller

[–] SilentDues 13 years ago

You should have waited a year, Just bought the movie triple-pack for $9.00

That's what I did~

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