Ahead Pushes Nero Digital Format For DVDs

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
Ahead Software and ESS Technology announced a major development this week for Ahead's Nero Digital video format. ESS will incorporate Nero Digital support into the next version of its Vibratto chip.
ESS chips power the digital video processing in many consumer electronics DVD players. Players featuring the new chip will begin appearing later this year. The Nero Digital format combines the MPEG-4 video standard with MPEG-4 AAC audio. The resulting file size is greatly reduced compared with the standard MPEG-2 DVD-Video used in DVDs today--up to 10 hours of Nero Digital video can fit on a single-layer DVD, as opposed to just 2 hours of standard MPEG-2 video. Until now, Nero Digital worked only on a PC. If you encoded a compilation disc of your favorite over-the-air TV show recordings in Nero Digital, you couldn't watch them on your TV using your DVD player.
Source: PCWorld

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Yes, but NDV format has a hideous compression algorithm.. It makes detail on human skinned blurred and disgusting, and even at high bitrates, it can't compress a picture properly.
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