Post #116091

Author: Moth3r
Parent topic: Info: Quantity vs Quality Discussion on OT preservation projects
Link to post in topic: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116091/action/topic#116091
Date created: 17-Jun-2005, 8:36 AM

I tend to agree with none. For distribution, there's no point in encoding a cap from a VHS source to DVD res at 720x480 @ 8000kbps. It's a waste of bandwidth. CVD res of 352x480 @ 2500kbps is adequate and much more efficient, and has the added advantage that it is DVD compliant so can be moved to DVDR later if desired without re-encoding.

For archival purposes, i.e. keeping a digital master for preservation purposes, then I would suggest DV format which is lessy lossy than MPEG-2.