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Why do DVD discs use MPEG-2 compression?

April 26, 2017compression discs DVD MPEG-2

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Why do DVD discs use MPEG-2 compression?

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Uncompressed video is the best quality you can get. However, only a few minutes of uncompressed video can fit on a DVD disc. Hence, some type of drastic compression is needed. MPEG-2 is a complex compression standard that can yield high video quality with taking up only a fraction of the space. The downside is that to get high quality, a combination of high end encoders and skilled operators to get the best results. That is what we provide.