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June 19, 2004
VCD quality
The video CD I made uses a compression ratio of about 20:1 compared to the digital video source. Without even looking at the videos side by side, you can tell the VCD is of significantly lower quality.
Guess it's time for DVD burners to come down in price... Blank DVDs at my favorite supplier in Grenoble are about 5 euros, and a DVD burner is about 100 euros. That's only twice as expensive as the CD burner I bought, but that makes DVDs on the order of 15x more than the CDRs I got.
Maybe we'll have to live with VCD temporarily.
Posted by Mark at June 19, 2004 11:09 AM