What are these "SUPERBIT" DVD's?

Superbit was a set of titles from a particular company that increased the 'bit rate' of the movies to the maximum rather than nominal. It used up more space, and titles like Lawrence of Arabia needed TWO discs for the main feature.
(I do own it)
The Superbit titles ARE better.
They can be had for $9.99 at Best Buy.
The bit rate in DVD movies is variable, to accomodate different needs of extra features and multiple soundtrack formats.
The Superbit movies have only the one soundtrack, (usually), and no extra features. All the space is used for the picture.
I own all the superbit titles, and wish they had not dropped the idea.
Another form of this is calling the disc "remastered in high definition" but that may be only a hype slogan???

I have "Blackhawk Down" on Superbit and it's pretty amazing.

I do plan on picking up more as I come across them (and the movies are good).

When Microsoft bought out the rights to the HDCD technology the hidden agenda was to apply this resolution enhancement, not to audio CDs (where SACD and DVDA are a better approach) but rather to video discs. Nothing has happened yet.

any dvd which is dual layer, with a mininum of features, by default has a better picture. superbit simply used all the space for optimum picture and sound....oh yeah, its already doa.

Elizabeth,

While I bought many for the $9.99 @ BB you quote, I beleive they have gotten out of the Superbit business, thus why they where so cheap ~ 1 year ago, If you or anyone can get them still for that price, buy them all, they are a true step up in DVD performance, I bought all I could find when they were on sale, hell I even accidently bought two of some...

Ken