In Reply to: Not necessarily posted by Christine Tham on October 25, 2004 at 00:25:17:
Transfer rate for MLP 5.1 96/24 (assuming 2:1 compression using MLP): 6.912Mb/s
Transfer rate for MLP 2.0 192/24 (assuming 2:1 compression using MLP): 4.608Mb/s
Transfer rate for DD5.1: 0.448Mb/s
Transfer rate for DTS5.1: 1.536Mb/s
Transfer rate for DD2.0: 0.256Mb/sIf we assume a 60 minute album, then total disc space required: 3600*(6.912+4.608+0.448+1.536+0.256)/8=6.192Gb (excluding menus and overheads)
Total disc capacity of DVD 5 = 4.4Gb.
As you can see, a 60 minute album at full resolution cannot fit onto a DVD 5 - it needs a DVD 9.
The maximum album length that can fit into a DVD 5 without sacrificing resolution is about 40 minutes. Less if some video is required.
So you can see the latest Universal dualdiscs adopted MLP 5.1 at 48/24 because they were forced to drop the resolution in order to fit a decent sized album onto DVD 5.
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Follow Ups
- Example disc space calculation - Christine Tham 01:19:12 10/25/04 (43)
- Assumption confusion . . . - Martin419 06:26:07 10/25/04 (4)
- No. I deliberately left the 300MB for authoring overhead ... (nt) - Christine Tham 13:43:00 10/25/04 (3)
- Now c’mon Christine . . . - Martin419 14:10:46 10/25/04 (2)
- I must also point out the 300MB overhead is based on my own experience ... - Christine Tham 14:43:08 10/25/04 (0)
- You missed out on "(excluding menus and overheads)" in the post (nt) - Christine Tham 14:15:20 10/25/04 (0)
- They dropped bandwidth not resolution. - Frank.. 03:03:19 10/25/04 (37)
- Nine Inch Nails.... - racerguy 07:38:32 10/25/04 (2)
- Re: Nine Inch Nails.... - Frank.. 09:40:41 10/25/04 (1)
- Re: Nine Inch Nails.... - racerguy 10:53:14 10/25/04 (0)
- You just rattled a series of compromises ... - Christine Tham 03:30:40 10/25/04 (33)
- Hardly serious dealbreakers. - Frank.. 04:23:08 10/25/04 (32)
- It gets better . . . - Martin419 05:05:44 10/25/04 (31)
- What both you and Frank seem to miss is that ... - Christine Tham 13:42:16 10/25/04 (23)
- Sorry, how stupid of me to mis your fabricated Warner 'norm' :) - Frank.. 05:26:25 10/26/04 (5)
- You obviously don't own many Warner discs then :-) - Christine Tham 05:54:48 10/26/04 (4)
- Would not call that a 'norm'. - Frank.. 07:23:44 10/26/04 (3)
- ALERT! "Tortured justification" in progress :-) - Christine Tham 14:12:05 10/26/04 (2)
- And does it hurt Christine? :-) (nt) - Frank 01:57:54 10/27/04 (1)
- Only when I laugh (nt) - Christine Tham 02:27:58 10/27/04 (0)
- Some points . . . - Martin419 03:40:55 10/26/04 (16)
- Re: Some points . . . - Christine Tham 04:34:20 10/26/04 (15)
- "I struggle to understand your comment about backward compatibility. " - Frank.. 02:13:25 10/27/04 (4)
- so, do we know that HD-DVD uses the same file structure? - Christine Tham 02:36:27 10/27/04 (3)
- Re: so, do we know that HD-DVD uses the same file structure? - Frank.. 04:00:23 10/27/04 (2)
- so, you were just guessing then? :-) - Christine Tham 13:39:16 10/27/04 (1)
- Nope... - Frank... 14:28:22 10/27/04 (0)
- Re: Some more points . . . - Martin419 05:58:31 10/26/04 (9)
- Re: Some more points . . . - Christine Tham 06:08:22 10/26/04 (8)
- Re: Some more points . . . - Martin419 07:26:51 10/26/04 (7)
- Re: Some more points . . . - Christine Tham 13:03:18 10/26/04 (6)
- Re: iLink - John Kotches 10:53:16 10/27/04 (3)
- 2 is 1 short of a minimum of 3 - but i acknowledge your point ... - Christine Tham 13:35:03 10/27/04 (2)
- Re: 2 is 1 short of a minimum of 3 - but i acknowledge your point ... - Martin419 04:51:18 10/28/04 (0)
- Re: 2 is 1 short of a minimum of 3 - but i acknowledge your point ... - John Kotches 14:34:16 10/27/04 (0)
- Re: Some more points . . . - Martin419 16:15:09 10/26/04 (1)
- OK, let's leave it at that - we do appear to be substantially agreeing so it's just semantics (nt) - Christine Tham 16:19:34 10/26/04 (0)
- "Consumer" format - racerguy 07:47:17 10/25/04 (6)
- Universal probably figures ? - Frank.. 10:03:58 10/25/04 (5)
- Re: Universal probably figures ? - racerguy 10:34:16 10/25/04 (4)
- Still fabricating your spins.. - Frank.. 01:11:34 10/26/04 (3)
- You should do a better job - racerguy 05:53:16 10/26/04 (2)
- You should read more carfully.. (nt) - Frank.. 07:30:02 10/26/04 (1)
- You should take spelling lessons :-) (nt) - racerguy 07:50:51 10/26/04 (0)