How are dvds only SD when xbox 360 games on a dvd are HD
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Spectre694
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360 can load the textures and everything off the disk uncompressing if necessary before the rendering starts. A dvd must be able to transfer the data in real time something the DVD standard is not fast enough for.
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because the spec for the DVD movies are sd. Only bludray go up to 1080p
http://www.ehow.com/about_6317732_blu_ray-vs_-dvd-resolution.html
http://www.ehow.com/about_6317732_blu_ray-vs_-dvd-resolution.html
DVD has 2 meanings
1 - A Storage Media
2 - A Specific Standard for universal playback of media
Compare it to something like referring to the United States as simply a geographic place (#1) or think of the United States as an ideal or political entity (#2). You could change the ideals, laws and name it "Boogerville" but the geography where it originated is still the same.
The Xbox is using the DVD simply as a storage medium, like a flash drive or HDD (#1) but does not adhere to DVD playback rules (#2).
You can have a DVD with DVD compliant media or you can have a DVD with non-DVD compliant media.
For media to be DVD compliant, it must be Standard Definition and stored with an MPEG-2 codec. That way you can stick it in any DVD player and it will playback the same regardless of the DVD player in use. Blu-Ray uses VC-1 or .h264 instead of MPEG-2 and it looks a lot better than MPEG-2 for the same amount of storage space. You can rip a Blu-Ray, compress the movie down to a size that fits on a normal DVD and then burn it onto a regular DVD. Play it back on a BR player or PC and it will look like an HD broadcast because it is. Put it in a DVD player and the DVD player won't know what to do with it because it is not DVD compliant.
1 - A Storage Media
2 - A Specific Standard for universal playback of media
Compare it to something like referring to the United States as simply a geographic place (#1) or think of the United States as an ideal or political entity (#2). You could change the ideals, laws and name it "Boogerville" but the geography where it originated is still the same.
The Xbox is using the DVD simply as a storage medium, like a flash drive or HDD (#1) but does not adhere to DVD playback rules (#2).
You can have a DVD with DVD compliant media or you can have a DVD with non-DVD compliant media.
For media to be DVD compliant, it must be Standard Definition and stored with an MPEG-2 codec. That way you can stick it in any DVD player and it will playback the same regardless of the DVD player in use. Blu-Ray uses VC-1 or .h264 instead of MPEG-2 and it looks a lot better than MPEG-2 for the same amount of storage space. You can rip a Blu-Ray, compress the movie down to a size that fits on a normal DVD and then burn it onto a regular DVD. Play it back on a BR player or PC and it will look like an HD broadcast because it is. Put it in a DVD player and the DVD player won't know what to do with it because it is not DVD compliant.
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