raddygast
11th May 2005, 20:40
Just a question here for people who have much more experience in using DVD-RB to backup DVD's of season episodes. I am quite confident with using DVD-RB and CCE for movies now, since I have a fair bit of experience (or at least much more than when I started).
But TV show DVD's have me baffled. Granted, I've only tried one series so far, so maybe it's anomalous. I am seeking advice from the veterans.
Are newer shows pretty much mastered in higher resolution (does that make any sense?) Like, do they use HDTV sources when they make the DVD's? I know it'd still be interlaced and would likely look bad on my monitor, but maybe with the higher resolution of HDTV it would look passable. Perhaps newer shows are worth re-encoding with DVD-RB and CCE (or perhaps HC).
Older shows, like the one I'm doing, appear to have terrible quality sources. They seem to be on the edge of quality. What's more, it looks like there are four episodes per disc, which pushes video content to something like 7500MB at least. Re-encoding would require something like compression to 55% of the original size, and since the quality is borderline to begin with, that would suggest that splitting is probably much wiser than re-encoding. Anyone agree or disagree?
I just haven't seen a lot of the newer boxed sets for modern TV shows. What about things like Family Guy, Futurama, Friends, Seinfeld, 24, etc? Do they come with four hours of video per disc?
The thing is, DVD-RB/CCE has been quite good for me when getting video content down to about 65% (better at 70% and up). But with TV sources it seems that things look much worse -- first disc I did at 73.9% looks quite bad. So is it just not worth it to re-encode episodic TV?
Advice greatly appreciated.
But TV show DVD's have me baffled. Granted, I've only tried one series so far, so maybe it's anomalous. I am seeking advice from the veterans.
Are newer shows pretty much mastered in higher resolution (does that make any sense?) Like, do they use HDTV sources when they make the DVD's? I know it'd still be interlaced and would likely look bad on my monitor, but maybe with the higher resolution of HDTV it would look passable. Perhaps newer shows are worth re-encoding with DVD-RB and CCE (or perhaps HC).
Older shows, like the one I'm doing, appear to have terrible quality sources. They seem to be on the edge of quality. What's more, it looks like there are four episodes per disc, which pushes video content to something like 7500MB at least. Re-encoding would require something like compression to 55% of the original size, and since the quality is borderline to begin with, that would suggest that splitting is probably much wiser than re-encoding. Anyone agree or disagree?
I just haven't seen a lot of the newer boxed sets for modern TV shows. What about things like Family Guy, Futurama, Friends, Seinfeld, 24, etc? Do they come with four hours of video per disc?
The thing is, DVD-RB/CCE has been quite good for me when getting video content down to about 65% (better at 70% and up). But with TV sources it seems that things look much worse -- first disc I did at 73.9% looks quite bad. So is it just not worth it to re-encode episodic TV?
Advice greatly appreciated.