Tiggs

Considering a DVD9 costs 10 times a normal size DVD is it worth the extra to keep the file size high?

Dont want to get a HD TV in a couple of years and find it shows up all my 4GB films!

new question!

why is my audio track slightly out of sync with the movie? looks like a badly dubbed film!

bob269

Dvd5 or 9 playback on most of the new larger tv's isnt brilliant whether they are HD or not, the problem is the dvd isnt encoded at a high enough resolution for todays tv's, hence the release (soon) of HD-DVD.

If you are worried about playback in a few years time you could probably buy them again for 20p on holodisc (well maybe 20 years time)

Tiggs

so in simple terms its not yet possible to easily make a DVD with the same quality that is used to make the original?

lightning101

Yes you can make an identical copy as the original but at 728 pixels its only half of HDTV resolution anyway

bob269

DVD5 compression depends on what you keep from the original and the run time of the movie. If the movie is around 1 1/2 hours runtime and the extras are ripped the quality should in theory look ok.

However if its something like lord of the rings extended then the bitrate on the conversion would be low and I would imagine would look pants.

Depends on how good your eyes are

Scooby Dooby Blue

A DVD9 is a DVD9 for one of 2 reasons:

1) The disc's full of extras pish that no-one wants to watch anyway (does anyone actually watch a film with the director blethering all the way through it?!)
- rip the extras and eighty other languages off and you may just need a 10% compression to fit a DVD5

2) It's a longer/high quality film (eg LOTR or The Matrix)
- shrinking this with a user fiendly 'one click' application will result in really bad pixelation, particularly in fast moving scenes. Best to pay the quid-odds for a dual layer disc to preserve the quality.