<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>for absolute quality yes, but for basic archival purpose (you know, until<br>HD-DVD's finally come out....), transcoding to mpeg4 is quite good, you can<br>get a 1hr show onto a CDR if you do it right and get maybe a 5% discernable
<br>quality loss.<br></blockquote></div><br>
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Maybe for you eyes but there's a noticible drop in quality using xvid to get even SDTV down to CD size let alone HD.<br>