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Originally Posted by Ruined
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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The accompanying thread on AVS makes this sound not just expensive (with all the software you'd have to buy), and therefore counterproductive, but also pretty time consuming for each disc, especially as you would seem to require a dual layer disc, which tends to cost a minimum of 5 times what a single layer disc does. I tend to prefer just burning the file on a regular dvd-r and forgetting about it, instead of going through hours of steps, just for a minimal difference on an already compromised source.
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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.
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Again, what a huge effort for one disc. This thread is simply about the visual bump between an HD-DVD player on SD material, not the fact that Oppo (who have phenomenal customer service) can't do HD, which has limited software choices anyway. Do any HD-DVD players have USB in, like the new Oppo does?