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Originally Posted by ymous
There's no real HD porn yet.
Just because your vids are 1280x720 it doesn't mean is true HD. A 3Mbps encode at this resolution looks like crap. Might as well stick with SD (and it will look better actually).
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You are right that all footage should be deinterlaced for online use. But I think a lot of you HD naysayers are just trying to be contrarian. In my experience the amount and quality of light in the original production matters much more than the video bitrate alone. A 1280 x 720 WMV for example where the hdv footage was really well lit to begin with will look WAY better and have more detail which you can see especially in the hair and saliva and background even at a 3500 Kbps video bitrate than a standard def 640 x 480 SD file at the same bitrate will. It's a night and day difference that no one can mistake. Maybe you guys are looking at badly shot HD footage, but I know when I shoot HDV and take the time to light it correctly and encode it to the best of my ability even at a moderate bitrate to keep the file size down, there is no way that one could suggest that some comparably lit SD footage looks as good or better, on a 'ceteris paribus' comparison, that is all other things being equal.