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YES, Tomshardware writer is way off. He sure needs to get some new glasses or contacts.
There are so many errors in the article, regarding what is what, and the writer sure doesn't know what an AVI-file is; a container for data, nothing else.
I do not take the article serious in any way, how can I when the darn thing is misleading (and why doesn't he store the pictures in a non-destructive format?!?).
That said, I would like to state, that it is possible to create a DVDrip which resembles the original in such a degree, that you'll not notice the difference except in really complex scenes. For instance, I saw Johnny Mnemonic the other day, and the scenes where you look at the internet (through the headsets), gets really distorted (mosaic) when compressed with DivX. But the rest of the film presented a good quality picture. Way above VCR and very very close to DVD.
I would say, giving some finetuning in the algorithm, these scenes could also get to very high quality levels.
On the other hand, giving the DivX-codec some bad material to work with, and it will produce a very blocky picture. I have not yet seen the samples Tomshardware have provided for DL, so I will not commend on them, but let me assure you: encoded right MPEG4 video can get really close to the perfect. Almost as close as MPEG2 (which anyway consumes 5-10 times more bandwidth, just to give it the edge over MPEG4).
Ghydda
YES, Tomshardware writer is way off. He sure needs to get some new glasses or contacts.
There are so many errors in the article, regarding what is what, and the writer sure doesn't know what an AVI-file is; a container for data, nothing else.
I do not take the article serious in any way, how can I when the darn thing is misleading (and why doesn't he store the pictures in a non-destructive format?!?).
That said, I would like to state, that it is possible to create a DVDrip which resembles the original in such a degree, that you'll not notice the difference except in really complex scenes. For instance, I saw Johnny Mnemonic the other day, and the scenes where you look at the internet (through the headsets), gets really distorted (mosaic) when compressed with DivX. But the rest of the film presented a good quality picture. Way above VCR and very very close to DVD.
I would say, giving some finetuning in the algorithm, these scenes could also get to very high quality levels.
On the other hand, giving the DivX-codec some bad material to work with, and it will produce a very blocky picture. I have not yet seen the samples Tomshardware have provided for DL, so I will not commend on them, but let me assure you: encoded right MPEG4 video can get really close to the perfect. Almost as close as MPEG2 (which anyway consumes 5-10 times more bandwidth, just to give it the edge over MPEG4).
Ghydda
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