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WarpEnterprises
28th July 2002, 23:10
I thought usually the Luminance-Range in DVDs should be 0-255 (when opened in avisynth via mpeg2dec - I know that this has to be re-encoded to a range 16-240 with the proper TMPG-settings).

Now I had a DVD, where the range is 16 ... ~192 ("The Grinch").

Is this common or am I something doing wrong?
And what could be the reason for not using the whole range (