What codec are you guys using for this?
also an intresting read..
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Microsoft Gets into The Fray
In May of 2003, Microsoft worked with Artisan to release "Terminator 2, the Extreme Edition" (T2EE). The package has two discs: one is a standard 480i/60 DVD from a new 1080p transfer of the original film, the other is a Windows Media 9 (WM9) version of the movie at 1080p/24. The Windows Media 9 version of the movie will not play in a regular DVD player; it will only play in a Windows Media PC (with at least a 3 GHz Pentium 4). You can play it in a regular PC with WM9 if it has a 3 GHz P4, 800 MHz front-side-bus, and a good 8X AGP video card such as GeForce FX-5600. Otherwise, frames will be dropped. You also have to set your screen resolution to 1920 x 1080 for 16:9 monitors, or 1920 x 1440 for 4:3 monitors. With this release, Microsoft has leapt ahead of all competing HD-DVD formats by actually releasing an example disc to consumers.
Microsoft is making a major investment in the WM9 format. Their Digital Media Division (DMD) is loaded with PhDs. Clearly, Microsoft has bigger hopes for WM9 than streaming web video. With the kind of investment they are making, it is clear they hope to make it the industry standard for HD video encoding. But, even if it does not become the standard, it will definitely be a viable alternative that is already bypassing the turtle speed progress of other industry giants in giving us a usable HD-DVD format.
The current DVD format that we all use today has a maximum data transfer rate of 9.8 Mbps. Artisan encoded T2EE around 6 Mbps, so HD-DVD for the masses may be closer than we think.
In February, 2003, Microsoft approached Joe and asked if would be interested in releasing DVE in WM9. Joe provided Microsoft with two D5s in late June, a 720p/60 and a 1080p/24. Microsoft encoded DVE at 1080p/24 and 720p/24 using WM9 at 9 Mbps for the VSDA.
taken from
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...vsda-2003.html
this dvd player should be able to play back the data
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...67828?v=glance
Providing you have the required TV hookup, the HD931 can convert the resolution of wide-screen DVD (852x480 pixels) to standard 480p, as well as the HDTV resolutions 720p (1,280x720) and 1080i (1,920x1,080). The DVI output works best when feeding fixed-pixel displays that use plasma, LCOS, LCD, or DLP technology. With CRT-based tube or rear-projection sets, the DVI connection is unlikely to deliver a noticeably better picture than component video would.