the download thread will go on till bluray and hd dvd death

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chuckd said:
This thread brings up the major issue with downloadable content that drives me crazy. Compression sucks. The bandwidth required to download uncompressed files is not readily available. Until the next big revolution in internet connectivity occurs, hi-definition downloadable movies are only for people with great connections or those people who don't mind compressed a/v.

However, when the bandwidth is there, the movie and tv industry is in for a major shake up similar to the music industry. (MP3s also drive me crazy. Paying full price for a compressed song blows.)

I don't know a lot about it but lossless format takes up way more space than DVD... An anime episode about 25 minutes in length that makes up a portion of space in a DVD, in lossless is like 8GB ... (not sure about motion-picture, which could be way higher in filesize).... Compression reduces significant filesize while maintaing close to the source's quality. Bad video quality either with decent filesize either means bad encoder (with bad compression method), or bad source... Also note that all the stuff I just typed are what I picked up from a few people in certain forums. (though I'm pretty sure they are correct).

 With that said though... I wonder if anyone in this forum does video encoding ... I kinda be one...