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   From: starfist@gmail.dot.com   
      
   On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 07:02:12 -0800 (PST), SFTV_troy wrote:   
      
   > It's probably a double-layer DVD which hold 8.5 gigs, or almost double   
   > the space the Star Trek discs had.   
      
   I'm not going to check, but I'd lay money that the TNG discs are   
   dual-layer.   
      
   > True.  And the engineers are better because they've learned how to   
   > review the video and "add more bits" to scenes that appear   
   > pixelated.   Back in 2001 they probably didn't realize that MPEG2   
   > needed to be tweaked, and instead just let the compression run   
   > automatically, and so we got very poor transfer of dark scenes   
      
   You're talking about variable bitrate, which isn't new and which is   
   also automated.  The software is just better now.   
      
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