How good is HD supposed to be?

[Dave Liquorice]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 03:08:38 +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote:

>> In addition a high bit-rate (8000kbps) 1920x1080, interlaced at 25fps, 
>> full HD encode is generated, but has not yet been made available.
> 
> but it has not yet been released publicly...
> At ca. 8Mps, those will be really huge files!

3.2 GB/hour roughly. The current 2.5 Mbps (ish) uses about 1 GB/hr.

> NB hvfhd DOES NOT OFFER HIGHER RESOLUTION (CLARITY), only doubled 
> framerate (25FPS x2), which results in smoother scenes where motion is 
> involved!

How does repeating frames improve smoothness of movement? Or does this 
encode upscale each field(*) and encode that to increase the temporal 
resolution?

(*) If good ole 25 frames/50 fields per second has any relevance in the 
digital world.


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Cheers
Dave.