Universal HD encodes "not good enough" to port? How?

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Originally Posted by Nick Graham

With the Bits reporting that Universal is thinking it's existing HD transfers are "not good enough" for Blu-Ray, I'm kind of curious how they cam eto this conclusion. A lot of their day and date titles look good, as do a good chunk of their catalog titles (well, at least the earlier ones before they went into quantity over quality mode). Regardless, they are PQ wise on par with a lot of what Warner has released and will continue to release on BD through the first quarter of the year.

Audio-wise the titles that only got Dolby Digital Plus 1.5 Mbps tracks would have to be only Dolby Digital on the Blu release, but PQ wise they have a solid allotment of titles they could do quick and dirty ports of (aside from the whole HDi to BD-J hurdle) just to get some stuff on store shelves. Granted we all benefit if they re-encode each title, but from the sounds of it that means a year
before any Universal Blus hit the shelves.

The reason they are on par with Warner is because Warner was having to neuter their encodes to the lowest common denominator--HD DVD.

You'll find that both of them, Universal and Warner, rating-wise (both video and audio) make up the bottom of the pack, and its no suprise because of the storage discrepancy on HD DVD.