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27. November 2004 @ 18:45 |
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I watch all my backups on a 65" big screen and my picture looks great. The only time I notice any quality loss is in the extras ... which I rarely watch. The main movie always looks great.
BigOrange watches his backups on a HDTV big screen and he says the quality is great.
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dbennion
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27. November 2004 @ 18:55 |
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It might depend on how fussy you are. I'm fussy. Is it an older 65" rear projection screen, or a newer digital HDTV display? If the latter, I'm very surprised you cannot notice the difference. Some people just don't care all that much ... my wife for example ... but I want the picture to be as clean as possible.
I think I'm going to start using CinemaCraft as my shrinker ... it is hugely better than anything else .. but then it's a $2,000 USD program.
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27. November 2004 @ 21:51 |
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I watch my movies on a 60" HD LCD TV and they look as good as an original DVD. I can't see any difference and I have 20/20 vision. I know because I just had my physical 2 days ago. :-)
My program is about 2000 USD less than what you are going to buy. LOL DVD Shrink is absolutely FREE! Can you imagine that? First thing is I never copy any of the extra crap any way so most of the time I don't shrink my movies hardly at all. At the most maybe 10 to 15% once in a while. So why should I use 2 disk's and waste .50 cents. By the way 500 x .50 = $250 which exactly what I would have spent by now if I used 2 disk's and for what? Some extra features I never watch anyway. But if you can afford $2000 for a program that really can't work any better than the free ones then I guess you can afford the $250, but I like to keep my money myself. I can think of a lot of things to do with $250. I am sure a lot of people have backed up more than I have so there saving's would even be greater than my $250.
Have a great day all :-)
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dbennion
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28. November 2004 @ 07:25 |
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It isn't the quality of your vision that's important, it's whether or not you are satisfied with less than the best .. some are, some are not. Some of my friends think I'm nuts .. they can't see (or don't care about) the difference between VHS and DVD.
I should make it clear that I have not seen a compressed DVD play on a large LCD screen (not rear-projection LCD ... I'm waiting until flatscreen LCD 60 inchers drop in price a bit), but I have seen regular DVDs upconverted .. and I can quite notice the difference between that and an HDTV source and I wouldn't want further deterioration. And it is a physical certainty that there is less information in the smaller file ... the issue is whether you notice the dropoff and if it bugs you.
I have read many other posters on this and other forums who claim they can see a significant deterioration in video quality (depending on the amount of compression of course). But if it doesn't bother you that's terrific.
Since I hope to keep these DVDs around for a long time, I don't see that the $0.50 additional cost is a big deal.
Oh I didn't say I had $2000 for the CinemaCraft ... I'm afraid I found another way of getting that encoder ..
Here is a review
http://videosystems.com/mag/video_mpeg_encoder_shootout/index.html
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28. November 2004 @ 10:06 |
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Well I dont know about other LCD TV's I can only speak of mine http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/vModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=11251&catalogId=11005&itemId=72639&catGroupId=11254&modelNo=PT-60LCX64&surfModel=PT-60LCX64
Which by the way I bought on Ebay for about half the price they go for. Anyway nothing looks as good in the TV as HDTV. There is a big difference in HDTV and regular TV and I mean a big difference you wouldnt believe the difference I mean HDTV makes everything almost look 3D. But my back up DVD's look just as good as the original's. The difference is un-noticable to the human eye. So how can you say satisfied with less than the best? I mean what are you looking at your TV with a microscope? My backed up DVD's are still far superior to VHS by far. Again of course nothing is going to look as good as HDTV, but I will say again that my backed up DVD's have just as good quality as the original, and I have viewed them on an HDTV (mine) Of course my TV is rear projection LCD, but if you could show me difference in picture quality between mine and a regular flat panel LCD I would like to see it. The only difference I can tell between the flat panel and mine is the price, and mine is 18" other flat panel LCD's I have seen are around 8 to 10" so all you really save with flat panel is 10". I'm not sure if the price difference is worth the extra $$. Well anyway until you actually view the difference of your backed up DVD on a LCD HDTV maybe you shouldnt knock it until you try it. I'm very happy with mine :-)
Oh yeah and again multiply the number of DVD's you have backed up by .50 cents and you will see that little 50 cents adds up.
bbmayo
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 28. November 2004 @ 10:12
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dbennion
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28. November 2004 @ 10:26 |
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Well trust me I'm happy that you are happy with your TV. By the way, do you go through life with a chip on your shoulder the way you make postings here?
The fact remains when you compress video, you will degrade the picture. You might not care, might not notice, but some will, me being one of them. If you want to equate it to 'me watching TV with a microscope', then maybe it does, but that's my choice, and there will be others like me, so they should be aware that less information in the video file = video degradation (which may or may not be important).
And if you cannot immediately tell the large difference between a flat-panel LCD picture, and a rear-projection LCD picture, that explains all. Not an insult, but you just aren't as fussy as I am.
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28. November 2004 @ 10:35 |
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Im sorry if you misunderstood me, but I don't have chip on my shoulder at all. I guess I am just not good with words, and I am not trying to downgrade your opinion what so ever. I am just mearly stating mine. I'm not trying to convince you of anything as you already have your mind made up. I am just saying that a person with 20/20 vision isn't going to notice a difference in picture quality between a backed up DVD and an original. I have shown several friends both just to do a little comparison myself and not one of them could see any difference. So once again I'm sorry if I struck a nerve of offended you in anyway this was not what I intended to do. I was just trying to state my opinon..
have a great day! :-)
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dbennion
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28. November 2004 @ 10:48 |
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No probs guy. Enjoy your most excellent TV.
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20200
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2. December 2004 @ 07:49 |
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Currently I am using DVD Shrink and porting the files to my mac to burn. Is DVD2One better to compress or DVD Shrink? if DVD2One is better i think i will just use that from now on.
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2. December 2004 @ 09:50 |
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20200,
There is a program out for the MAC you can use which is Damn good if I must say so myself and it's called 42 you can get it here http://www.kaisakura.com/index2.html
DVD2ONE is also compatable with MAC. So you probably should be using DVD2One.
V/R,
 
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