ITunes movies, "near-DVD quality"??? too much $$?

Has apple released the actual specs for the "near DVD-quality" besides 640x480? I notice that the movies in iTunes store are 1.3-1.6GB in size. Although the convienence is nice to download movies, Apple is gonna have to reduce the price being that most consumers can buy these titles on DVD at DVD-quality, used or new from $6 to $14.
Macbook/iMac 20" intel Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I suspect the first method copies the data as a bitmap image, regardless of the fact that the source was a compressed image format. Save the files to your computer and embed them from there.
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Mark Betournay wrote:
What about the claims of of some of these software companies being able to remove the DRM?
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(Jorge_Costinha) wrote:
Back to encore 2.0, I just hit the button to create the DVD. Everything looks as I expected, except the fact that the movie is a little bit dark. I assume I lost quality with the compression?
Maybe, but probably not.
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