1920x1080 is HD, 1440x1080 is HDV.
From memory the BluPrint templates are 1920x1080.

blink3times,
I am fascinated by your posts regarding burning HDV to a dvd and then playing on a ps3. I have a blue ray burner (sony)and have been experimenting on render settings for blu-ray. The burning software that comes with the sony drive (cyberlink) is not very good. I am hoping sony will update DVD4 to handle blu-ray.
When playing a DVD does the ps3 automatically down res, or does it play at the same resolution as Blu-ray? I am connected to my 50" 1080 tvby HDMI. Thanks to all who reply......

farss
You are correct. HD is 1920x1080 and so is Blu-print..Thanks

"I am fascinated by your posts regarding burning HDV to a dvd and then playing on a ps3. "


This is not actually correct. I burn hybrid HD DVD's (HD DVD's on normal dvd media for playback on the Toshiba).

That's not to say that you can't do a sort of rough Blu ray version. You can burn M2T files to a standard disk an they will paly back in the PS3. However you can not do a real disk author with this method, nor can you have things like DD5.1 sound.

If your M2T files are 1080i... then that is what you will see.

***1920x1080 is HD, 1440x1080 is HDV.****

Not so. Square pixel aspect ratio is 1920x1080, HDV is not the only acquisition format that uses 1440x1080. Many high end formats use it as well.

donwidener,
I have a PS3 and it plays all mpeg video as long as it's compliant. It also playsback AVCHD recorded on the sony cams.
I can capture from my Sony-HC3 to an external FAT32 harddisk in TS format (m2t).
Plug the USB Harddisk into the PS3 and view them immediately. Playback is easy, fast forward / rewind / startover/ pause. You can also view the file format & bit rates, copy to the internal harddisk etc.
The 1440x180i playback fullscreen on a Sony KDF 60" HDTV. I have the PS3 connected via the hdmi connector and resolution is set to 1080i. If I remember correctly one can adjust the TV's overscan when setting up the video mode.

It's best to leave your 1440x1080i videos in their native resolution. Although I have to admit my cineform 1440's converted to 1920 look excellent.

If your playing VideoCd (mpeg1) you can view the video as it's original size or blow it up (I use these files). Standard Definition Video looks good.
Audio quality is excellent from the PS3. Want to rip a CD to mp3 or aac the unit does this and copies the files to the internal harddisk.

You can leave your 1440's in their original format. PS3 plays them fullscreen at the proper aspect. I also have the computer connected to the HDTV using xp & linux. The 1440x1080i videos playback fullscreen on the HDTV via the hdmi or component connectors. I bought the PS3 because tired of using the computer to playback multi-media formats on the HDTV.

Great multi-media player, I didn't really buy it to play games but I have to go now and finish playing the game I'm hooked on.

4eyes,
Thank you very much. My playback looksexcellent!

Don

How does the menu system of Blu-Ray / HD-DVD differ from that of traditional DVDs? I could imagine the difficulty of managing a program like DVD-Architect with both standard DVD and BlueRay support if the framework for Blu-Ray is that much different. Perhaps we will soon see the dawning of a new "Blu Architect" app?

By the way, kudos to you guys with 1440x1080 televisions. Sheesh, I'm still snug as a bug with my old Pioneer Elite (look ma, it's like a TV, but widescreen).

The HD DVD's (or at least hybrid hd dvd's for now) are set up almost exactly the same as a normal dvd. They have a HVDVD_TS folder instead of a video_ts folder, and it contain EVO files instead of vob files. The menu structure... IFO's... etc are exactly the same.

Blu Ray... who knows! Still can't properly author a blu ray disk. There is only one program that I know of so far that actually CLAIMS to author a blu ray disk and that's Roxio's DVDitPRO. I say "claims" because there's a guy on the liquid board testing it and it appears to be a failure.

http://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/thread/205076.aspx

Not sure how BD or Blu-Ray will pan out.
Within the next 5 years most people will be watching HDTV or SDTV streaming from the net. The HD-WMV videos or HD-Divx are impressive.

Yeah, I agree.... that was my point a long time ago. Because of advancing technology, these 2 formats have a MUCH smaller window than sd DVD did in settling in and becoming the accepted new format. One wonders if either one of them are going be of any use at all by the time this little war or theirs is over.

And as far as blu ray/HD DVD being useful in the data industry.... I don't really buy that either. Firstly, a movie is one thing, but I'm not sure that I would EVER trust an optical disk to hold 50, 75 or 100 gig of valuable data... backup or otherwise. Secondly.. they don't write very fast (2x). You MAY see it get a bit faster in the future... but at the present speed, writing a 50gig disk will take longer than most people are willing to accept. If it was me.... I would simply go buy another HDD.... safer and much faster.

A 2x writing speed is much faster than 2x on a DVD, or 2x on a CD.

"x" is about 150KB/sec for CD, about 1.3MB/sec for DVD, and 4.5MB/sec for the high-density disk formats. That's not exactly blazing, but the technology is brand new, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see speeds much higher in a few years. Remember CD burners? I was thrilled to buy my first burner, a 2x unit (Wow! a whole CD cloned in 30 minutes!).

"I wouldn't be at all surprised to see speeds much higher in a few years. "

Yeah, but you're missing the point... I doubt EITHER one of these formats have more than a few years to prove themselves before other types of technology overrun them. In the next few years there WILL without a shade of a doubt be better technology out there. If one or both of these formats don't lock themselves in soon... any speed increase won't matter.

We are in a different time than the dvd. The technology is now pretty much changing faster than we can even buy it

Let me put it to you this way.. My little video rent-it store on the corner has been there for years... survived the the vhs to dvd change over with relative ease. A couple of months ago he finally closed his doors for good. I asked why he was closing and he answered with 3 words: Video On Demand. (tv cable company's put him out of business). So in a sense, the "movie streaming era" has already begun.

blink3times,
All the dvds(blu-ray and DL DVDs) played perfectly on the PS3. I tried them on a blu-ray player a circuit city, and NONE of them work; including the ones authored with the cyberlink software supplied with the burner. Any ideas? Thanks
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