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Originally Posted by Semper Fi Guy
So you'd have to reconvert an xvid to something else (thereby losing further quality, on something already heavily compressed)
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http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/03...vds-on-dvd-rs/
If you do a good job with the compression you shouldn't lose anything signficant - as you said, xvid as already heavily compressed so its not like you are going from pristine HD video to artifact-city. You already have artifacting anyway, and you shouldn't gain signficant additional artifacts if you encode well. Even if you do, though, its not the end of the world as you started with a mediocre source to begin with.
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Originally Posted by Semper Fi Guy
and it still doesn't play R2 SD-DVDs?
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So? You could simply rip the R2 SD DVD and burn it as R1.
Convert PAL to NTSC if necessary. Problem solved.
The Oppo cannot play any true HD DVD high definition discs at all, and there is no workaround for that. While on the other hand, the Toshiba HD-A3 and Venturer SHD7000 can play HD DVDs from around the globe as there is no region coding. That is a far bigger advantage than being able to natively play xvid files, as you can simply convert them or stream them if you have a 360/PS3. The quality of HD DVDs is stunning and IMO a much more desired feature than some of the functions you are looking for.