Suhit Gupta
09-30-2004, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117923,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117923,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Ahead Software and ESS Technology announced a major development this week for Ahead's Nero Digital video format. ESS will incorporate Nero Digital support into the next version of its Vibratto chip. ESS chips power the digital video processing in many consumer electronics DVD players. The Nero Digital format combines the MPEG-4 video standard with MPEG-4 AAC audio. The resulting file size is greatly reduced compared with the standard MPEG-2 DVD-Video used in DVDs today--up to 10 hours of Nero Digital video can fit on a single-layer DVD, as opposed to just 2 hours of standard MPEG-2 video."</i><br /><br />Players featuring the new chip will begin appearing later this year. Until now, Nero Digital worked only on a PC so if you encoded a compilation disc of your favorite TV show recordings in Nero Digital, you wouldn't be able to watch them on your TV using a regular DVD player. The benefit of Nero Digital is the compression, giving up to 5 two-hour movies on one DVD. There is plento more information here about Nero digital, and it certainly looks like something worth using, especially if you are one of those people that is trying to put all your VHS contents onto DVD.