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writersblock29 · 13th September 2005, 02:53

@Richk50

At 10-15%, pretty much all transcoders will do a somewhat reasonable job on a good source -- it'd be easy to give Shrinkto5 a pat on the back it doesn't deserve. It's best, in my opinion, to push it well beyond where you'd normally put it in order to see if it offers any sort of improvement over what's currently availible. That's why I chose to test it against Nero Recode 2. I wasn't expecting crystal-clarity; in fact, I assumed either test would look like a mess. They did! But the Recode version of Star Wars Eposide 1 was far easier on the eye than Shrinkto5. Therefore, Shrinkto5 offers no improvement over what else is out there. At least, that's what I came up with.

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writersblock29 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 618	@Richk50 At 10-15%, pretty much all transcoders will do a somewhat reasonable job on a good source -- it'd be easy to give Shrinkto5 a pat on the back it doesn't deserve. It's best, in my opinion, to push it well beyond where you'd normally put it in order to see if it offers any sort of improvement over what's currently availible. That's why I chose to test it against Nero Recode 2. I wasn't expecting crystal-clarity; in fact, I assumed either test would look like a mess. They did! But the Recode version of Star Wars Eposide 1 was far easier on the eye than Shrinkto5. Therefore, Shrinkto5 offers no improvement over what else is out there. At least, that's what I came up with. __________________ Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?" --George Carlin