Ask the Insiders: Putting the Last Nails in the Coffin

[darinp2]

Originally Posted by DaViD Boulet

Many Disney titles also push the meter. AVC on Chicago peaks over 40 quite a bit... and seems to average in the high 30's.

One thing to consider is that Chicago is a 1.85:1 movie, so about 1920x1038 of picture data (unless they convert to the full 1920x1080 at 1.78:1), where 2.35:1 movies have about 1920x817 of picture data (they may truncate or round to a multiple of 8 or something like that though). Also, from seeing them on different formats I would say that Chicago seemed much grainier than the LOTR movies. I would be surprised if the LOTR movies required the same bitrates as Chicago before no improvement could be seen with a top display, even though Chicago has some slow moving scenes.

--Darin