Trying to burn a good quailty DVD to show off my plasma

The DVD player will play whatever codecs it recognizes. Regardless of
the resolution.
Of course, to get a higher resolution, you can't use NTSC encoding.
Research into a DVD player that will play a variety of formats (such as
DivX, h.264, VC1, and MPEG). Then find an authoring program that will
encode those formats at the resolution that you want. This may mean a
DVD player that you don't own. It will probably be cheaper just to get
an HD-DVD drive. The problem with DVD's isn't that they can't hold HD
quality video, it's that they can't hold enough. Using the right codec
might let you get a 90 minute movie onto a standard (dual-layer) DVD,
but to decode the data you would still need an HD-DVD drive.

Easiest solution (if you have high speed internet) is to get an
Xbox360, go to the Video marketplace, and download a TV show in HD.
Maximum resolution and its only about $4 (oh yeah, and $400 for the
360), but you would have to buy a HD-DVD anyway if you didn't get the
360.
Doug

On Jan 26, 4:21 am, "khee mao" wrote:
wrote in messagenews:[email protected] .com...I downloaded those Microsoft .WMV files which are 1440 x 1080
resolution. I have Nero 7 Ultra Enhanced and no matter what auhoring
program I've tried to use, it all dummies them down to 752x480 or some
lame resolution.

Anybody know how I can burn them on a standard DVD-R so I can show off
my plasma tv with?

thx!the Oppo plays wmvs...dunno if it can do hd resolutions in this codec
though. buy yourself a hd-dv player. $400.

Thanks for all the help guys and sorry for all the newbie questions.
:-| Pretty soon I'll be fully edumacated just like the rest of you
hahaha.

On 26 Jan 2007 05:50:23 -0800, "Doug" wrote:

The DVD player will play whatever codecs it recognizes. Regardless of
the resolution.
Of course, to get a higher resolution, you can't use NTSC encoding.
Research into a DVD player that will play a variety of formats (such as
DivX, h.264, VC1, and MPEG). Then find an authoring program that will
encode those formats at the resolution that you want. This may mean a
DVD player that you don't own. It will probably be cheaper just to get
an HD-DVD drive. The problem with DVD's isn't that they can't hold HD
quality video, it's that they can't hold enough. Using the right codec
might let you get a 90 minute movie onto a standard (dual-layer) DVD,
but to decode the data you would still need an HD-DVD drive.

Easiest solution (if you have high speed internet) is to get an
Xbox360, go to the Video marketplace, and download a TV show in HD.
Maximum resolution and its only about $4 (oh yeah, and $400 for the
360), but you would have to buy a HD-DVD anyway if you didn't get the
360.
Doug

On Jan 26, 4:21 am, "khee mao" wrote:
wrote in messagenews:[email protected] .com...I downloaded those Microsoft .WMV files which are 1440 x 1080
resolution. I have Nero 7 Ultra Enhanced and no matter what auhoring
program I've tried to use, it all dummies them down to 752x480 or some
lame resolution.

Anybody know how I can burn them on a standard DVD-R so I can show off
my plasma tv with?

thx!the Oppo plays wmvs...dunno if it can do hd resolutions in this codec
though. buy yourself a hd-dv player. $400.

khee mao:

the Oppo plays wmvs...dunno if it can do hd resolutions

Not according to what I've read.

--
Mac Cool

:

Microsoft .WMV files

Buy an Xbox 360 and stream them over your network or burn them to dvdr.

--
Mac Cool

wrote:
Thanks for all the help guys and sorry for all the newbie questions.
:-| Pretty soon I'll be fully edumacated just like the rest of you
hahaha.

FYI I have the same dvd player that you do. As others have pointed
out, 720x480 is its maximum output (discounting the upscaling).

Just to clarifly, this is also true of mpeg/divx video - although the
codec itself may be capable of higher resolution, the LG player itself
will refuse to play anything higher than 720x480.

wrote in message
...
I downloaded those Microsoft .WMV files which are 1440 x 1080
resolution. I have Nero 7 Ultra Enhanced and no matter what auhoring
program I've tried to use, it all dummies them down to 752x480 or some
lame resolution.

Anybody know how I can burn them on a standard DVD-R so I can show off
my plasma tv with?

thx!

I downloaded some 1080p clips from fusionHD and play them through a [DVI]
Myhd card, using a Marantz DLP front projector, very remarkable clarity.

In article .com,
"Terence" wrote:

FYI I have the same dvd player that you do. As others have pointed
out, 720x480 is its maximum output (discounting the upscaling).

Just to clarifly, this is also true of mpeg/divx video - although the
codec itself may be capable of higher resolution, the LG player itself
will refuse to play anything higher than 720x480.

You can probably push it up to 720x576. I play this pseudo-anamorphic
trick where I "squeeze" 16:9 stuff into 720x540 and then play it back in
"wide" mode on the tv. It's interesting; you lose some quality, but it
fills the screen with no distortion. The machine's a Sony DVPNS63P --
I'm not sure if they sell them in the US, but it's a pretty good cheap
DivX/Progressive player.
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W. Oates