Superbit

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Superbit is a brand of premium DVD-Video versions of motion pictures from Columbia TriStar Home Video, a division of Sony. Superbit DVDs contain a reduced amount (and usually are completely devoid) of so-called added value and bonus material, such as documentaries or interviews, which can be found on regular DVDs. As a further step to increase bitrate on the main feature, a static menu is used. However, they are encoded at a bit rate that is, according to Sony, approximately twice as high as that of standard DVDs. This allows for an improvement in picture quality, especially on high end home cinema systems, while allowing viewers to choose between Dolby Digital (5.1) and DTS audio. Superbit discs can be read by regular DVD video players.

Sony's Superbit Collection has a limited number of titles, many of which are re-releases of previous best-sellers. Most Superbit DVDs cost $20-$25, the same as an average 2-disc special edition.

Superbit should not be confused with either HD DVD or Blu-ray, both of which are different media formats.

[edit] Available titles

• Adaptation.
• Air Force One
• Anaconda
• Bad Boys II
• Bad Boys
• The Big Hit
• Black Hawk Down
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Charlie's Angels (Superbit Deluxe)/ Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (Special Edition)
• Cirque du Soleil - Dralion
• Cliffhanger
• Closer (film)
• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
• The Dark Crystal
• Das Boot (Director's Cut)
• Desperado
• The Fifth Element
• From Here to Eternity
• Gattaca
• The Guns of Navarone
• Heavy Metal 2000
• Hollow Man*
• Hook
• John Carpenter's Vampires
• Johnny Mnemonic
• A Knight's Tale
• Labyrinth
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Legends of the Fall
• Leon: The Professional
• The Mask of Zorro
• Men in Black
• Men in Black II
• The Missing
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• The One
• Panic Room
• The Patriot*
• Punch-Drunk Love
• The Quick and the Dead
• Resident Evil
• Riverdance - Live from New York
• S.W.A.T.
• Seven Years in Tibet
• Snatch*
• Spider-Man
• Spider-Man 2
• Starship Troopers
• Tommy
• Underworld
• Vertical Limit
• XXX

* Superbit™ Deluxe 2 disc set

[edit] External links

• Superbit Catalog Sony Pictures' catalog of Superbit DVDs.
• What is Superbit? Advertisement page which briefly explains the Superbit format.
• What are Superbit DVDs, and do they actually make a difference? Close examination of several Region 2 & 4 Superbit DVDs.
• Superbit™ pamphlet -- The text in the Superbit™ DVD-insert.