DVD versus VCD - GrandpaBruce?

[Heidi]

Hello all!

 

I don't know where this questions is most appropriate, so I thought I would start here. GrandpaBruce, I have been SUPER impressed by your replies to others and would greatly appreciate your advice, or advice from any others that may have something useful to offer.

 

Today I upgraded from EMC7 to EMC9. Of course it has taken me most of the day to play and figure things out. My question is this: I currently have a CD Recorder and burn VCD projects. Will I have better results and quality if I were to use a DVD Recorder and burn DVD projects? My pictures look beautiful and crisp on the monitor, but pretty grainy on the TV.

 

If you recommend a DVD Recorder, do you recommend an internal or external recorder? I've seen several postings about people having a hard time with EMC9 recording DVDs that are compatiable with the major brands. Have you found this to be true?

 

Thanks so much!

Heidi

[missnz]

I have a Plextor and a Lite-On both of which I am pleased with. The Lite-On is a bit noisier to me but it's not that noticeable. With the after Christmas sales, I've seen DVD burners as low as $29. As Bruce suggested, you most likely will have less trouble with the internal variety than the external ones depending on your computer.

There is no comparison between a VCD and a DVD in quality if you're planning on watching on a TV. I've seen some pretty good SVCD projects that pass OK on TV but never a VCD. 700mb vs. 4.7gb.

End of discussion!

 

Would like to put my say in I studied off with VCDs. Then when I got a DVD burner. I went through and re did the files kept during the files again, because I had the original is still available. You do not have the originals. The resolution will not increase that much, if any at all, what you can try one of the two following things.

 

1 rredol it off with a VCD, by playing their VCD and recording at again in mpeg-2

 

2, you do not able to do that is tried to import the VCD. Then save it as mpeg-2 this may increase the quality, or it may just space up. When I did this when I did not have the original any longer, I was able to get quite a good reproduction, which seem to play well I'm my TV but if you had the choice read digitiser it in mpeg-2. This may take a while, but you may be happy with the results better than doing it the other way. If you are able to do it.

 

Michelle

[grandpabruce]

Hello all!

 

I don't know where this questions is most appropriate, so I thought I would start here. GrandpaBruce, I have been SUPER impressed by your replies to others and would greatly appreciate your advice, or advice from any others that may have something useful to offer.

 

Today I upgraded from EMC7 to EMC9. Of course it has taken me most of the day to play and figure things out. My question is this: I currently have a CD Recorder and burn VCD projects. Will I have better results and quality if I were to use a DVD Recorder and burn DVD projects? My pictures look beautiful and crisp on the monitor, but pretty grainy on the TV.

 

If you recommend a DVD Recorder, do you recommend an internal or external recorder? I've seen several postings about people having a hard time with EMC9 recording DVDs that are compatiable with the major brands. Have you found this to be true?

 

Thanks so much!

Heidi

 

I have not had trouble with my DVD's playing on my set top DVD player. I have been using Verbatim media.

 

I would recommend an internal DVD burner over an external, if you have a bay open for it. I like my BenQ burners, but since you can't get them anymore, I would go with a Plextor, Lite-on, Pioneer, or NEC. The Plextors are the most expensive.

 

If you get an internal burner, make sure that you get an 80 wire/40 Pin ribbon cable for it. That is the same type of cable with which, your hard drive is connected to the motherboard, if you hard drive is not a SATA drive.

 

Using a DVD burner, you should get a better picture than you do when you burn your production as a VCD or SVCD.

[lynn98109]

VCD is relatively primitive, with much lower resolution on the picture, and sound at the CD standard level -MPEG1 standards.

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...opid=79433&

 

DVD uses MPEG2 standards, the video is up to twice as much in each direction (4 times the information for the player to process).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video

 

Lynn

[Beerman]

I have a Plextor and a Lite-On both of which I am pleased with. The Lite-On is a bit noisier to me but it's not that noticeable. With the after Christmas sales, I've seen DVD burners as low as $29. As Bruce suggested, you most likely will have less trouble with the internal variety than the external ones depending on your computer.

There is no comparison between a VCD and a DVD in quality if you're planning on watching on a TV. I've seen some pretty good SVCD projects that pass OK on TV but never a VCD. 700mb vs. 4.7gb.

End of discussion!