DVD Writers with Higher Resolution

[jcikal]

I've heard that the current 720 resolution of current DVD writers will within 1-2 years jump to 1080. I know I read that somewhere in this website but since I have America Off Line, it disconnected and I lost the link to the page. I'm interested in passing my Digital tapes and Hi-8 tapes to DVD, but have postponed it waiting for the higher-resolution DVDs to come out. Does anyone have information on this or where I can find out more about this? especially what is the timeframe for them to come out.

Thanks for any info.

[cplevel42]

What? I'm not sure what you are talking about. Can anyone shed some light on this and cure my stupidity?

[Vejita-sama]

You are confusing several different ideas and treads First the DVDR burner has no affect on resolution. It just transfers data from the PC to the DVDR media. That data can be in many different formats: DVD video, DVD-ROM (ie. pc data), audio, PSX2, Xbox, etc.

Currently the DVD standard calls for 720x480 MPEG2 video at 9.8Mbit/s (see what is DVDR to the left). In the 'near future' HDTV systems will be out and with them HD-DVD. If you look at the supported resolutions for HDTV:

1035i 1920x1035 1125 lines
480i 720x480 525 lines
480p 720x480 525 lines
625p 720x575 625 lines
720p 1280x720 750 lines
1080i 1920x1080 1125 lines (sports)
1080p 1920x1080 1125 lines (cgi)
24p 1920x1080 1125 lines (film)

They are WELL above that of the current DVD standard. But that's a DVD formating issue, the burner has nothing to do with it.

[lgmayka]

They are WELL above that of the current DVD standard. But that's a DVD formating issue, the burner has nothing to do with it.

But as a practical matter, the public demands that a full 2-hour movie fit on one disk. So for HD-DVD to be practical and popular, the capacity of a disk must increase sufficiently, or the compression of the encoding must increase, or both. The last I read was that both these approaches were being pursued, through blue-laser burning (greater capacity) and MPEG-4 (higher compression).

[ofbarea]

Due to the limited resolution of Hi-8 you will not gain much capturing at a higher resolution that 352x480 NTSC (352x576 PAL). You could start capturing right away and converting your stuff to DVD without too many worries.

[billyt]

where can I find the description of resolutions for THE DIFFERENT STANDALONE RECORD SPEEDS?
HQ-HSQ-SP- ETC>>>

[The village idiot]

If you really want to, you can put HD resolutions on current DVDs. You might have a hard time finding a player that can output the HD signals though. And HD is something like up to 18GB per hour, so you won't get very much on current size DVDs. Time to bring back the 12 inch disks :P

[andkiich]

billyt,

Regardless of the recording speed for the DVD, the resolutions can be either half D1(352x480) or full D1(720x480). What comes into play is the preference from the user as to what they think looks the best. Generally if you want more than 3 to 3.5 hours on the DVD, then I drop the resolution to half D1, anything shorter than that and I stay at full D1. Some of this also depends on the source material as well.

[lordsmurf]

Can I use the time base corrector to fix my VCR timer? The resolution of the VHS need to be better than the bitrate of capture. Also, when I encode, I drop frames from the IFO and BUP. How can I fix this? And when I'm done, what software do you recommend I use to burn the DVD+VR in my CD-RW drive?

These weird questions this week are amazing. Simply amazing.

To be serious though, a DVD is the piece of plastic you put stuff on. The resolution is one aspect of the video data you're putting on that plastic disc.

[FOO]

Off topic , but since I'm here ...
Smurf, did you get my mail ?