CVD - 352x480 - heavy jaggies. without anti-aliasing?

[Trenton_Net]

I noted that many people like using CVD! However when I use it, I find that heavy jaggy lines appear (Much like a crystal clear VCD at 352x240). With a SVCD at 480x480, such effects seem to be avoided. Do most people accept the horizontal quality loss and jaggy lines as “ok”? To me, CVD seems more similar to VCD quality or DVD de-interlaced quality, than actual SVCD or DVD.

[SatStorm]

CVD ain't compatible with some dvd players.
Expecially those ones from sony, philips and there clones! (thompson for example).

There many reasons for this. Alsoi, let me remind you that SVCD is the true alive standard. CVD is the hidden (and commercialy dead) one. It was replaced by SVCD 3 years ago. Then, for political reasons, manufactures forced to get compatible with it. Well, not all...
The generall rule is : If a player must be in the china market, then it has to be compatible with CVD. If not, it is not neccessary!
Generally speaking, a "made in china" or "made in far east" dvd standalone, is capable to play CVD correct. A "made in japan" one, is uncapable.
Also, I have to say that CVD is optimised for PAL. It is possible to use it with NTSC, but it is better to use it with PAL. China is PAL, so the format...
The same problem we have in europe with DVD. It is optimised for NTSC....
As you see, it is not only what you see in your player... There are things beyond!

[Trenton_Net]

Thanks for your help!

As for CVD's, Im not too intrested in compatability, since I could always get my family/friends to send me something from China/HK. Im more intrested in the quality aspects, because you save more bitrate since the image is horizontaly smaller. Most people seem to say its still DVD like in quality, yet when I view them, I see horizontal jaggies due to the resolution loss. It intrests me only because of the increase in bitrate, but if there is indeed a visible hit in quality Via resolution loss, then its not so good after all.

[SatStorm]

There is no difference between svcd/cvd if you watch them on a mainsteam TV of any screen size. There other reasons if this happens.

If you master SVCD it is very easy to make CVD. If now your are unlucky and your DVD can't play it correct, then what to say... Stay with SVCD. After all, it is the official format....

It is really wiered how amazing CVD looks on those cheaps made in china standalones, and how awful looks to those state of the art expensive ones from sony/marantz/philips/etc. Once again I feel lucky I didn't buy that sony standalone a year ago, as all my "expert" friends told me...