What is the biggest benefit of DVDR vs SVCD ?

[SingSing]

1. Better picture quality

2. surround sound.

3. menu.

4. DVD copy without re-encoding.

5. compatibility

6. ......................( Fill in the blank )

[dilligaf]

One disc convenience, no disc swapping.

[thingimijig]

what more do you want?

some people are just never happy.
LOL.

NO, like dilligaf says CONVENIENCE.

[arealgijoe]

OK here is a Number-6;
CO$T; 3-4 CD-R blanks 2 .25 ea + .75 to $1.00.

One DVd-R blank, Princo can be bought for a buck.

aprox 35-40 minutes per CD-R, upto 6 hrs per DVD-r.

JD

[SingSing]

Look like the votes are going for volume over quality.

[RealaT]

Definitely volume for me, I used to rip movies to 2 vcds. Now I can put 4 (sometimes 5) films on a single DVD-R

[adam]

arealgijoe perhaps you are in another country but here in the states you can easily buy cdrs at about 10 cents each and besides that, they give them away every weekend at BestBuy, CircuitCity, OfficeMax, OfficeDepot etc... You buy a 10 or 20 pack for about $5-$10 and you get an instant or mail in rebate for the same amount. I haven't actually paid for a cdr in about 3 years. There are obvious advantages of dvd-r over cdr but price sure ain't it.

[defense]

CD-r's are definitely much cheapter then DVD-R's, at least here (U.S). I'm not sure what I am doing differently or what I'm missing, because as far as quality goes, my SVCD's not only have DVD comparability, but they look exactly the same! I am not a fan of having several disks, and I have only used 2 per movie, although I am ready to experiment with one and see how the results look. But there is no question that with two SVCD's, the quality I get is EQUAL to DVD, at least when it comes to appearance. Some might think my eyes are bad. Well, I have 20/15 vision which is better then 20/20, so I guess that rules that problem out. I am still amazed at the quality I get with an SVCD. Most of the time I don't even know if I'm watching a DVD or an SVCD/CD-R. That's crazy, and with that quality, and price difference, I won't be ripping to DVD-R anytime soon. To my knowledge, if I DVD-R is 4.7 GB, and you get a dual layered DVD at around 7-8 GB, you are going to have to compress and "technically" have some degradation anyway. I'll stick with SVCD all the way

[SingSing]

You should able to tell DVD and SVCD aparts in the scense involving :
waterfall, forrest, Blazing fire, Pixzr's animation....

Most of them is becasue lots of tiny movement causes 2520 kpbs
bit rate get behind. But I am suprised that Pixar video near perfect color rendering show up differently in SVCD. Yes, it is minor, but our eyes can tell. Generally you can detect thsese differences better in very sharp 27" or projection TV.

[ghoster]

if you stop and think the price is about the same. one cdr hold 35 to 40 min in svcd quality and cds are like 10 cents, but on dvd you could put the same svcd quality and can hold up to like 4 hours i have heard even more. they run like 60 to 70 cents each. so you do the math its about the same.