Are the Indiana Jones DVDs Superbit?

[energy80s]

Just wondering, as they seem awfully large for "movie only" discs - over 7Gb each. Also noticed that "Johnny English" (the Rowan Atkinson 007 spoof) is over 5Gb for 84 mins!

[defense]

They aren't superbit...but probably could "technically be." They were all digitally remastered and all use a very high bitrate. I did these three the week the were released. I remember there were very few extras..if any....only one of the three had a bonus disk....which I never backup anyway.....and they all has some type of website button in the menus.

Other then that...there really weren't any extras...so the bitrate was very high. I believe the average bitrate for all three was well over 4000....I used the big three and my backups look identical to the originals. Excellent quality..they did a hell of a job remastering those disks.

You'd think they'd do that for batman...i'm not a big batman fan..but I was shocked to see that all four batman movies were on DVD-10's and the quality looked real crappy. It would be nice if they'd spend the same time on the batman movies as they did with Indiana Jones. Anyone have any idea if that may be in the plans?

[energy80s]

There are no extras on the Indiana Jones DVD's. All extras are kept for the fourth "Bonus" disc, so really all the 7Gb is going into the movie - apart from the 400 odd megs on the menus!!

[defense]

There are no extras on the Indiana Jones DVD's. All extras are kept for the fourth "Bonus" disc, so really all the 7Gb is going into the movie - apart from the 400 odd megs on the menus!!

Right...that's why I said "very few extras, if any"...in the States..that means...there were either FEW extras or ZERO.....I didn't remember which one because I haven't watched the movies or looked at the menus since I backed them up. I just remembered the only thing a little different was a website button within' the menus.

Either way...the Indiana Jones series is not any oddity. If you look at DVD's closely you'll see a TON of DVD's have super high bitrates when they aren't needed. Pretty Woman and Indescent Proposal are two that come to mind. The quality wasn't that great..but the bitrate was very high..although they weren't superbitrate DVD's either.

[ChrisX]

I haven't played them yet. They aren't officially Superbit and the fourth disk is for the extras only.

[spiderman2k1]

I made a back up set and they are very good back up's used DVD2ONE. I saw on TV that they used like 300 computer's to render the video for remaster.

[ChrisX]

The Indiana Jones movie trilogy was on TV recently and I never bothered to watch them as too many ads with inferior picture without the surround sound.

There is a report that the US TV executives are worried on losing young men on their TV programs. I don't think it is the program content; I think they should be looking at reducing advertising. Watching too much junk!

Too many commercials and this is the real reason why I watch the movies on DVD and go on the computer to browse the web.

TV advertising in Sydney is getting more and more and getting worse.

I know of one TV program is a one great infomercial; this is a program full of promotions. This isn't much entertainment at all; it is really advertising junk all through for at least two hours. I can't bother to watch "Good Morning Australia".

The DVD Indiana Jones trilogy should be much better to enjoy than on the TV with a much superior picture and sound without the ads.

[pacmania_2001]

I was actually watching the trilogies on TV and thought that they have done an excellent job with the restoration of the picture.

I haven't seen the DVD's yet but if the TV quality is subpar to it then I would definitely applaud them on their work.