Ready for a DL DVD burner?

[Waterhouse]

I've been quite happy using DVD Shrink with DVD Encrypter to recompress commercial dual layer DVD's down to single layer DVD+R media. The resulting picture doesn't seem noticably degraded on my standard old 27" TV. But someday I'll get a new TV with a bigger screen and alot more pixels. Will my compressed SL DVD's then look like trash?

Anybody with a large widescreen TV doing the same thing? Do the compressed SL DVD's look good, or should I be thinking about DL in order to get better image quality in the long term?

 

[NightCrawler]

For Data DVD's it would be to costly for DL but for DVD's it will make sense when the price falls to about $1 a disc.

PS: Read the sig

 

[jpeyton]

As long as you keep your compression level above 80, use deep analysis, and use the new adaptive encoding option, you'll have a hard time telling on a big screen (I can't tell on my 50" WS HDTV).

And when we do get to the point where our TVs are showing huge flaws in our DVD collections, we'll have HD-DVD anyways.

 

[ponyo]

Unless you're extremely picky, compressed video is good enough for most. I view my DVDs on 100"+ screen using DLP projector and I can't tell that much difference unless I look for it carefully. If you're that picky, you can always split the movie into 2 discs using something like DVDFab and you'll retain 100% quality.

 

[Looney]

Well, i can certainly tell on my Sony GDM-FW900 from movies that are compressed and not... but it's not enough to bother me. If you're happy with the quality and can't tell the difference, then i don't see why it should bother you either. I can tell the difference, and it doesn't bother me.... but it's not like i'm backing up dozens or hundreds of DVDs... i only have a handful backed up, movies that i watch frequently.

I see people that are like compulsive about this crap, and download dozens of movies a week, and burn them all even though they probably don't watch half the crap they burn. They have a collector's mentality, but it's useless, because these medias aren't meant to last a long time... average lifespan is about 5 years. So you backup 200 movies, watch them once if you're lucky, and in a few years, the media degrades and they're useless.