>> I'll believe it when I see it.
> 
> Download something from this page:
> 
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx


I'll have to try that when I get home later. Obviously my work PC is 
barely powerful enough to decode MPEG-1 in near-realtime. ;-)

> Funny, I regularly encode POV stills using xvid4psp into MP4 format for 
> my PS3, it looks way better than any DVD.

Ah, OK then. That must be the "magic" Warp mentioned. Certainly it never 
worked for me...

>> [Although never as good as a commercial DVD - don't ask me why.])
> 
> Add motion blur?  Also the DVD standard allows different bitrates, make 
> sure you are using the highest one for small animations.

Well, one of my videos is a stationary image who's colours very slowly 
change. But on the DVD, the colours seem to remain completely 
stationary, except that once every 2 seconds they all change at once... 
I'm guessing the video is below the change threshold or something.

The videos involving movement seem to work quite well. Possibly because 
they move too fast for you to set and study every individual pixel - 
hey, isn't that how perception-based codecs are supposed to work anyhow? ;-)

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