Quality Question, 8mm to SVCD vs. 8mm to DVD

[cyclejim]

This may be a dumb question, but I was wondering what the quality difference would be in capturing my 8mm tapes to DVD vs capturing them to SCVD. I have a hardware capture card (Hauppauge Win PVR-250) that lets me capture to either format for later burning.

Since 8mm is only around 240 lines of resolution, will I really see any increase in the transfer quality if I use DVD over SCVD?

Won't SVCD allow me to capture the full resolution that is available from the source tape?

Thanks in advance!

[markums2k]

No replies yet? Yeah, sounds like you have it right. SVCD is good enough, and you won't stand to gain any quality by moving up to DVD bitrates and resolutions. The final product can only be as good as the source material.

[Luis Neves]

Well, quality will be the same as DVD can not improve the original quality. However, you can easily fit 3 hours of film in one DVD, and just 35 to 50 minutes in one CD. Another point to consider is that encoding takes a lot of time, your original magnetic source can deteriorate, and SVCD files are not DVD compatible: you can not move SVCD mpeg-2 files to a DVD and play, you need to reencode and losse quality.