Digital Bits has a most interesting CES 2006 interview with Andy Parsons, Senior Vice President of Pioneer Electronics. In this article we get to read his take on Sony's Blu-ray and a bit about it's affect on DVD in the future. Here is just a tiny snippet, this guy has some info to share!
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AP: Well... on Blu-ray Disc, when you're playing a Blu-ray movie, the player is actually spinning at one and a half times normal speed. So you always have a guarantee of 54 megabits per second [Mbps]. And I believe the HD-DVD format runs at about 36Mbps. For a Blu-ray movie application, you've got 54Mbps. So that allocates for us 40Mbps just for the video alone. Right? Which is an awful lot of data. Now think about that. ATSC Standard high-def broadcasts are about 20Mbps, so we've doubled the available bitrate. BH: Which should give Blu-ray Disc a significantly better image quality that the best broadcast high-definition signal. AP: It should be absolutely crystal clear. We also have room for much better audio. We have six different audio codecs available: uncompressed PCM, standard Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1, DTS HD, Dolby Lossless... multiple different options are available to content providers. So it's all about quality. It's all about providing an experience that greatly maximizes the best we can get out of our high-definition TV equipment. And Blu-ray Disc, to us, is really about providing the very best home theater experience we can provide. |
Well, that sounds pretty good. You can check out the rest of the interview right here. This article also poses other great questions including one about Blu-ray's flavor of Managed Copy. Check it out!
Source: Digital Bits
