VCD vs DVD Question

[Locut0s]

Hi all

There might not be any consensus on this but I'd like to know anyway. I am in the process of burning a number of Anime and TV shows to disc. I have downloaded these from various sources so they are not my own rips. A lot of them are DVD rips to Xvid/DivX but a number of them are just straight analogue captures. A brief glance with Gspot shows that the resolutions that these episodes have been encoded in fall into 2 groups those in the 300 range and those in the 500 range, none of them are in the maximum DVD resolution of 720 x 480. I am MUCH more comfortable viewing these on my comfy couch in front of my 32" RCA TV so I am not just archiving them. MY question is, given these facts, would you burn VCDs or DVDs of these episodes? I'm just finishing burning ALL episodes of the Simspons, up till now, in VCD these have been quite acceptable, though I have a feeling that only animation is going to work on VCD. The problem of course is that these TV series have ALREADY been compressed using some codec so I don't want to loose any more quality yet at the same time many of these are encoded at a rather low resolution so I'm not sure if it is worth it to put them on DVD. The DVD rips are fairly good quality, better than VHS worse than DVD. I'm starting to lean towards butting these on DVD, though it's going to be more expensive, especially for something like archiving every episode of Star Trek. What would you do? Sorry for the long post hehe.

[Innershield]

I would convert them to 1/2 D1 resolution. It would still be better than VCD and you could fit several hours on 1 DVD.

[Locut0s]

Thanks for the suggestion Innershield I think I'm going to go that route. Oh and before anyone suggests SVCD my DVD player doesn't support it. Actually it does with the VCD header strick but I don't want to do that for hundreds of discs.