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I would pay £200 quid for a decent hardware encoder! but then I don't think that £200 quid would be the cost of the unit. After all there will be a lot of people wanting to store movies on hard disk in the future. Lets face it the life span of DVD/Blueray or any other media of that format it limited.

However I don't really want to get into a discussion on this subject as it was not the point of the tread.

The point of the tread was to find out if there was a way to compress dvd's to a resonable size and still retain some quality and not have to put up with blocking! As a hardware DivX encoder would presumibly produce the blocking then it's a pointless argument.

As for quality vs compression I agree you have to loose something, however when you compress using DivX the quality is worse than that of a naff old VHS copy so it defeats the objective of trying to store all the movies on hard disk as I would prefer to have something thats doesn't irritate me when I am watching the films.

Any how.

Cheers

Yogiman!

<blockquote data-quote="yogiman_uk" data-source="post: 99259" data-attributes="member: 22611">I would pay £200 quid for a decent hardware encoder! but then I don't think that £200 quid would be the cost of the unit.&nbsp; After all there will be a lot of people wanting to store movies on hard disk in the future.&nbsp; Lets face it the life span of DVD/Blueray or any other media of that format it limited.However I don't really want to get into a discussion on this subject as it was not the point of the tread.The point of the tread was to find out if there was a way to compress dvd's to a resonable size and still retain some quality and not have to put up with blocking!&nbsp; As a hardware DivX encoder would presumibly produce the blocking then it's a pointless argument.As for quality vs compression I agree you have to loose something, however when you compress using DivX the quality is worse than that of a naff old VHS copy so it defeats the objective of trying to store all the movies on hard disk as I would prefer to have something thats doesn't irritate me when I am watching the films.Any how.CheersYogiman!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="yogiman_uk, post: 99259, member: 22611"] I would pay £200 quid for a decent hardware encoder! but then I don't think that £200 quid would be the cost of the unit. After all there will be a lot of people wanting to store movies on hard disk in the future. Lets face it the life span of DVD/Blueray or any other media of that format it limited. However I don't really want to get into a discussion on this subject as it was not the point of the tread. The point of the tread was to find out if there was a way to compress dvd's to a resonable size and still retain some quality and not have to put up with blocking! As a hardware DivX encoder would presumibly produce the blocking then it's a pointless argument. As for quality vs compression I agree you have to loose something, however when you compress using DivX the quality is worse than that of a naff old VHS copy so it defeats the objective of trying to store all the movies on hard disk as I would prefer to have something thats doesn't irritate me when I am watching the films. Any how. Cheers Yogiman! [/QUOTE]