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What's the native DVD resolution?

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Hender

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I was watching a DVD the other night and was marvelling at the picture quality, even on my bad GeForce2 Pro and old Viewsonic monitor, and a thought struck me: what's the native resolution for a DVD movie, either on a set-top box or on the computer? I run my computer desktop resolution at 1280x1024, and I've never noticed any stretch marks or blurriness on a DVD movie like when I play a file that's too small (ie, a downloaded video like The Killer Bean 2, which even at 640x480 shows noticeable defects when full-screened through Media Player). On a TV, I don't know how the resolution works, but on a computer does it downgrade to the screen res? But then we return to my original question, what's is the native res of the movie I'm watching (any do they vary)?
 
Commercial DVD's look great for many reason, here are two:

- They are encoded from the original 35mm films (in most cases). These originals are of very high quality with very, very little noise. Noise is a huge bandwidth waster with MPEG II compression. When the original signal is clean MPEG II is a very good compressor for high resolution video.

- The compressors that are used with DVD's are two-pass, VERY high quality, and tweaked for each movie by experts.

 
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