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Originally Posted by
timtofly /forum/post/19777347
I was wondering if this would still be the DVD Recorder Forum if that ever happened. Technically, What he asked for is correct. We only have to use the term "BD" because it won out over HD DVD. DVD has nothing to do with resolution, it is mainly capacity and the dreaded piracy problem. Resolution is handled by the MPEG group. For all practical purposes HD content is too big to fit on a DVD. However those backing HD DVD did have "DVD,s" that were able to contain HD content. For simplicity and to tell them apart, they just added the HD.
Even early BD's used the same MPEG2 standard that is housed on a DVD, they just had decoders that used two streams to convert it back into HD. While MPEG4 is now the main standard of HD and does a better job at decoding than MPEG2 to "shrink" the content, there is still too much content to shrink down to fit on DVD.
So technically you only have to down rez for room, not because of the term DVD. OF course if there is no burner at all, it would still be HD.
@Citibear, hopefully the BD phase will pass quickly like Beta... did and yes the transition from VHS to DVD was easy.
I am just curious why Hard Drive and High Definition snuck into the mix?