Back-Up DVD quality on a new HDTV (RP CRT or RP LCD)???

[Dallas22]

I have backed up almost all my movies on DVDs onto DVD+R media. I currently am watching these movies on a 31" CRT set and the originals compared to the back-ups look exact in quality.

In a few months I will be buying a brand new HDTV and it will probably be one of those huge 57" Rear-Projection CRT sets OR a slimmer 50" Rear-Projection LCD display sets (a little more expensive, but NO burn in the screen and I can play my PS2 games on there).

Anyways, I am wondering since the quality of the picture is magnified on a widescreen rear-projection HDTV, I am wondering will there be a big (or even little) difference when comparing my original DVDs to a Backed-Up one? I am wondering how MUCH of a differnce is there, if any at all, and the differences when the movie is NOT compressed compared compressed???

Anyone have compared the quality of a backed-up DVD to it's original on a large HDTV rear-projection set???

Please give your experinces, examples, etc.. thanks

Dallas22

[guns1inger]

There is no definative answer to your question, as there are a number of factors involved. What was the quality of the original ? How much did you re-compress it ? What method did you use ?

Ultimately, you will just have to suck it and see. You may find that some discs look fine, and some look crap. Throw away the crap ones, buy a DL burner and recopy them at full quality. Then realise that the original encoding was the problem and swear loudly.

I've found that I'm becoming hyper sensative to any little distortion or artifact in my copies. I see a slight softening and start to swear. Then I get out the original and realise that it was there as well. You just accept that the studio would be a better quality, so you don't look for the glitches unless they are obvious. With the copies I seem to expect them more and look for them, forgetting the fact that they may have been there to begin with.

[Dallas22]

Yeah, I know it will have to be a try and see method. My first 10-15 DVD backups were done using XCopy So I am sure (IF the movies are worth it) I'll re-do those. Next, I used DVD Shrink for the next 20-30 DVDs and MOST should be fine, unless they were HIGHLY compressed, because I NEVER used the Deep Disk Analyizer, so I'd probably need to improve the quality of those backups, again, IF the movie is worth it. Then most of the rest of my DVD Backups, IF there was compression, I used the Deep Analyzier. Finally, I used, when needed the Re-Auth function to get THE MOST out of the quality of my movie back-up.

I am sure I will find a bunch of my movies that will need to be RE-DONE, mostly from the first batch of DVDs that I backed up (for the above reasons). But I am just curious about other people that have done this and saw a BIG or little difference in the quality of the Back-Up on a large, widescreen, HDTV (rear-projection CRT or rear-projection LCD). Anyone else give me any mroe examples, stories, comments, etc about this???

Thanks again

Dallas22