I'm using DVD Shrink It to backup my movies cause my system takes too long and can't handle DVD-RB so I'm trying tho keep the percentage High to keep the qulaity of the movie for when I get a HD Flat Screen. Cause with a regular CRT you can't tell the difference. So am I wasting g my time ordering DL discs for those big movies that go below 90% with DVD ShrinkIt.
I think it depends on how important quality is to you. Remember HD DVD and Blu Ray are already here. In 3 years or less, regular 720x480 DVDs likely will seem inferior in quality anyway.
@AndreL Have you ever viewed some of your DVD back-ups on a 42" screen or larger. I saw my back up of "War of the Worlds" on a Phillips 42" and it looked damn good for a 62% compress. You'll have to be the judge of wasting time, they are expensive and will be coming down in price. Evidently the demand for them is not large because the price is still holing @$2.00/disc, on sale, for Verbatim DLDVD+Rs. I use them sparingly on movies I really liked. I even read a post here today, where someone was having more trouble with VerbDLs than Memorex and Princo DLs. Amazing?
"War of the World at 62% on a Phillips 42" And you really didn't see difference. I've been trying to get to a store that has a flat screen hooked up to a DVD Player so I can tell the differecne but haven't found the time to do that. But now that at the top of my list.
A cheaper alternative is splitting a movie onto two regular disks, which you can easily do in Shrink. That way you keep full quality, and I don't mind flpping disks once in the middle. Two regular disks, if you buy your disks in bulk, is about 50-60 cents as opposed to two bucks or more for a DL.
As long as I've had all quality options on, and reauthor main movie, even my older LOTR trilogy all looked good on 52" widescreen. I did break down for Verb DL's for KIng Kong tho
i use clonedvd with anydvd and take out the menus and promos and get 100% quality and it looks great. if you dont really care for these and the extras, use these two programs because they work great
@sukhvail --- great choices on programs to run. I think you were a little misleading movies 3 hours long like the ones I mentioned are really impossible to get 100% arent they? Please teach me if I am wrong.
really? all of the movies i have backed have been under 3 hours so i am not sure about that. all of the movies i backed up dont have special features, french audio, promos adn some don't have menus and so far i have been able to get 100% picture quality. ill try a 3 hour movie when i can and see if its true
Quality is'nt that important to me, but I have limits. I don't wanna see with "human eyes" can tell the differance between the real DVD and my bkup copy. Also I don't wanna see large digital blocks like you see when your watching digital cable with interuptions. Ya know how you'll see big square digital pixels. Cause I think ... no. I know DVD-RB will not let that problem happens. Cause it re-encodes the whole movie to fit on a singla layer DVD. But with that program, DVD-RB it bring the same quetion. The subject of this post) when will it reach it limits and you have to divide the movie into two disc or use DL discs. So it all comes down to this. I don't wanna have to make another copy of my disc just becasue the copy plays bad on my new 42" Sony plasma flat screen. I just don't want that to happen and have to redo all the bkups that play bad. But here is a post that totally has me thinking...
Haven't really done a DL-DVD with DVD Shrink, rip in DVD Decrypter in ISO mode. Download and install Imgburn and burn the .mds file with Imgburn and you'll have a 1:1 copy of the disc.
