> > Typically folks claim that good Video CD Mpeg1 is about equivalent to > > VHS in subjective quality - so with typical encoders you probably want > > 300Kbit or so. > > Yeah, too bad that MPEG1 is half the framerate though, sampling only > at one field. I don't know how people can compare it at all to VHS. Its also not interlaced so that too isnt a 1:1 comparison and unlike NTSC doesn't have chronic colour degradation. I said "subjective" for a reaon - all these systems have good and bad points. There are examples where SVHS quality actually beats laserdisc for example - but very few
