why miniDVD?

[pdontthink]

Hello all,

Question: If a MPEG2 of reasonable quality takes more
space than a DivX at similar quality, and it
is possible to multiplex AC3 sound with DivX,
and even create menus, subtitles and multiple
languages for a DivX (ala microDVD), then why miniDVD?

Thanks!

(I suppose there are one or two rouge standalone DVD
players that support miniDVD, but I'm interested in
comparisons leaving this fact aside)

[Doom9]

because miniDVDs can be played on some standalones and DivX can't. You know... for some people standalone playback is the most important things... and some couldn't care less about that. So.. if you have no DVD burner and your player can play miniDVDs.. why not make them? Of course, if you player doesn't support them there's no point in making them either.. but miniDVD was just a bridge over to real DVDs... if prices continue to drop like this everybody will be doing real DVDs not very far from now.

[pdontthink]

sweet. so i *do* finally understand this.
thanks!
:)

[Job]

I make miniDVd's for my Setop Box.

Mind you I have just last month been able to load in a firmware into it that allows me to add a 120GB Hard Disk as a slave to the Master DVD Drive. Now thats a wopping 100 VCD movies on call.....or 28,000 mp3's...AWESOME!!!!