anyone buying this? very nostalgic especially the excellent soundtrack songs

dun talk so much.. when by goods ready? after I send alex to "belakang" you..

LOL.. 1st they convert real 8.5GB DVD9 to fake/recompressed 4.3GB using DVD5 but cover label as DVD9

now they convert Blu-ray 25-50GB title to 8.5GB DVD9 (relabel as blu-ray dvd? hybrid technology ar? blu ray+ DVD disc?)

This post has been edited by ar188: Jun 30 2008, 02:01 PM

nowadays many people want "Bank Job", instead of the other BJ ?

This post has been edited by ar188: Jun 30 2008, 02:03 PM

actually PQ can be much better than normal DVD9.. if they throw away all the extras and jack up the bitrates during encoding of video and audio to fill up the dual layer 8.5GB capacity in DVDs like the previous superbits releases...

but I rather 1. they release 720p H.264 MKVs (with 4.3GB file size) in unker ho dvdr discs.. ..
or. 2. 1080p H.264 MKVs (with 7-8GB file size) in unker ho DVD9r discs.. hehe!

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Added on June 30, 2008, 2:09 pmwhat fuyooo la.. you are the real elite... 525i M-sport..

This post has been edited by ar188: Jun 30 2008, 02:10 PM

my posting above was just commenting on your remark "because it ain't gonna look any better" and "standard dvd is still standard dvd" of which IMHO simply isn't true. Codec compression and high bitrates plays a major role in PQ/AQ quality just like how a 64k MP3 vs 320k MP3 sounds much different..


and whether you able to afford to buy blu-ray or not, quite frankly, doesn't interest me.. cheers..

This post has been edited by ar188: Jun 30 2008, 07:12 PM

hello, brader, I comment was refering to those "standard DVD are all the same la" comments..
which you have observed as well, 480p doesn't just mean DVD.. esp 480p downconverted from 1080p = 854x480p video files,
is more detailed video than normal anamorphic Region 1 widescreen DVDs (which are actually 640x480 data pixels stretched to 720x480)
(hence not true 720x480 pixels to begin with) (edit, made a mistake, it should be 720x480 native non square pixel - stretched to 854x480 for 16:9 TVs)

also, if you compare with 1080p Movies surely la.. might as well say, you paying 6-8times more for BD, so I surely expect 6-8times more resolution/data than unker ho's 4.3GB DVDs as well..

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Added on June 30, 2008, 7:21 pmI'm only interested to learn from Taiko's who,...in their twenties already drive BMWs..

This post has been edited by ar188: Jun 30 2008, 08:46 PM

yeah no worry, it's just a technical discussion which I posted earlier..


I think you got your tech mixed up also about anamorpic DVDs, for dvds, watching anamorpic means stretching the image electronically if you want to watch on a 16:9 TV..
it was never stored as 854x480p 16:9 (1.78:1) , it's stored as either 720 or 704 or 640x480i and stretched to 854x480 if you want to watch on widescreen TV
oh also, DVds are usually in NTSC or PAL i.e. interlaced Mpeg2 format.. there is no NTSC+progressive scan 854x480p.
"P" is only gotten via electronic post video processing in your dvd Player or sent to TV.. (unlike Blu-rays which could have been interlaced or Progressive video stored in the disc it self.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_widescreen#DVD_Video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video

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Added on June 30, 2008, 8:48 pmnot to mention T2 movie also.. dunno how many copies I have liao..

LD, DVD, DVD ultimate+HD-WMV, and now wanna get bulu ray version also (due to cheap price $11)..

This post has been edited by ar188: Jun 30 2008, 08:48 PM

htkaki.. yeah cancelled our gathering.... we can blame dat poki la..
anyway, you just have to pass me a 500GB HDD.. but it's lossy codec due to compression, not lossless yet, until we get more of those m2ts ISO blu-ray files..

anamorpic means stretching... digitally or optically..

when you get normal widescreen DVD, it's letterboxed top and bottom (wasted data encoding black bars)
when you get anamorphic widescreen DVD, the data is encoded so that the people have very narrow faces, but fills up the top and bottom with video data (instead of black bars), then your TV (if widescreen 16:9) or DVD player will do the horizontal stretching for you...

this subject is still relevant in Blu-rays cos 2.35:1 movies have black bars encoded in Blu-rays.. cos they are not anamorpic. hence 2.35:1 scope movies don't actually have 1080p worth of movie, instead something like 800 pixel lines only.. the other 200-300 lines is encoded as black bars.. of coz, 16:9 movies like those animation and TV series, will get 1080p's worth of video.. cos no top and bottom black bars..

This post has been edited by ar188: Jul 1 2008, 11:20 AM

cpet, I tot you gone AWOL kena blocked?? still can post wan?

ok ok back to work... (when you manage to find cheap bd drive, let me know..)

well I guess the term will mean different type of implementation for different things, say movie cameras (don't know much about this) and dvd video encoding.. or even anamorpic optical Lens used for a 16:9 projector to view fill 2.35:1 screen in a CIH (constant image height) setup.. like one of our elite bro's house here..

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Added on July 1, 2008, 12:56 pmcan wan la you, soon!

This post has been edited by ar188: Jul 1 2008, 12:56 PM

didn;t chat with them ar?

anyway bro, if you want the files, can also get it from HTkaki after I copy for him. cheers!

yeah seen his nick before in this forum.. you do bulk with him ar?

yeah lor, read some online complaints.. luckily didn't install yet..
can PS3 rollback firmware? or reinstall the old update file say around 2.30 or 2.36

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=c...=11190&Itemid=2
"PS3 Firmware 2.40 Causing Console Lock-Ups?"

eh.. you didn't watch terminator: sarah connor chronicles meh?

bottom of the pyramid for me.. no more fever liao.. now I just want 1TB HDD and 6x BD drive to be cheap so I can rip all my blu-rays to M2TS..

megatron, how many BDs you got now?

wei dun tambah garam and vinegar la... where got 300pcs?? the movie 300, that I got la..

good solution IMHO.. 1080p proj is the way forward.... (extra money buy anamorpic lens) and 65" can be secondary monitor..