Digital Video Resolution

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Digital Video Resolution

Post by Bas » Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:28 pm

Is it true 'digital video on cd-i' performs a higher resolution than the regular Video-CD format?
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Post by cdifan » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:32 pm

Yes.

The Green Book specifications for Digital Video specifies a horizontal resolution of 384 pixels; the White Book specifies 352 pixels.

Digital Video on CD-i conforms to the Green Book specification.

So-called "White-Book capable" DV cartridges (all of them except the very early models) stretch the 352 to 384 on display; the early ones do not so you get a narrower picture with a distorted aspect ratio when playing Video CDs.
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