[Gllug] cheap disk source

[- Tethys]

On 7/24/07, t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:

> I am sure someone on here with the actual numbers at their fingertips can
> provide a much more accurtae figure.

DVD-Video is 720x576 = 414720 pixels/frame (for PAL, at least)
HDTV is 1080x1920 = 2073600 pixels/frame

Thus HDTV requires 5 times as much storage space as DVD-Video. Of
course, in reality it's never quite that simple, but for the purposes
of this argument, it's good enough.

Tet

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