VCD vs DVD quality - Page 3

PSU2Fan · 08-07-2003, 10:53 AM

oops! My bad Droppyale

Thanks for the correction muno!

Yeah DVDburners are quickly becoming more and more economical.. you can get the new Pioneer dual format for around 250 I think.... (older 2x models are now in the low 100's) and media has started to get cheaper these days... I use only optodisc and they're now under a buck a piece.

Droppyale · 08-07-2003, 11:08 AM

what did I miss?

Yeah DVD burners are becoming cheaper and cheaper..

I'm waiting for the 8x ones to come out, so that the 4x dual ones lower their prices.

patyoda · 08-07-2003, 11:43 AM

Yeah, I think I've definitely decided to go with the DVD burner. I know if I burned all my movies onto VCD or SVCD, I would just end up burning them all to DVD anyway and throwing the VCDs away in a year or so when DVD burning is really cheap. Might as well just do it right in the first place. Heh, when I first started planning my new machine a couple weeks ago, I was like..."Ok, I'm on a budget here. $600 is my max, and maybe I can keep it under $500." Then I decided I wanted a DVD burner and Logitech Z-680s, plus an Audigy 2, so that leaves about...50 bucks for everything else.

I'm gonna have the best sounding 486 with a DVD burner ever

dunbar · 08-07-2003, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Droppyale
www.dvdrhelp.com

Thanks for the link, I'm just starting to play with my D8 camcorder, this link will help!

highrock · 08-07-2003, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by muno
(There are dvd-r/w, and dvd+r/w burner, or those that burn both).
-M

wait hold up...wut is the difference between dvd-r/w and dvd+r/w?

PSU2Fan · 08-07-2003, 10:35 PM

realistically nothing. They are merely different standards of burning the info to disc. The important part is to look up your dvd player hardware's compatibility with the 2 leading formats; and then make sure you buy your burner accordingly. Use the dvdrhelp link above, they also go into detail about the top 2 formats.

muno · 08-08-2003, 01:13 AM

The reallife difference is that some players will refuse to read format or another.
Eg. Toshiba laptops that have a dvd-rom drive (the models shipped to us atleast) will only read dvd-r/w.
I also know that the minax standalone player I have will read dvd-r/w.
-M

highrock · 08-08-2003, 06:58 AM

hmm you would figure it would be easier for consumers if they made one standard disk format. anyways thats good to know. thanks.

looialex · 12-13-2004, 09:42 AM

Hi, I recently bought a DVD writer with the objective to put a few movie into 1 DVD disk to save space.
I do not mind the VCD quality.

1 VCD quality Movie is about 2 VCD disck size, approx. 1.4G.
Since a DVD disk can burn up to about 4.3G (although the size of a DVD disk is 4.7G), if there anyway I can burn 3 VCS quality movie onto a DVD disk? I would also like to create a menu so that I can select which of the 3 movie I want to play.

Please recommand any tools that will do the job.
By the way I am using nero now. When I try to export my raw AVI file of size 600MB to a VCD, it generated a file of size 700MB. But when I try to export the same AVI file to a DVD disk, it generated a 2.5G file.

Can anyway help?