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Posted by Bob on 01/31/06 14:08
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:52:45 +1100, "mag@bot.net" <> wrote:
>>It's not nec. pirating, you know. There are reasonable reasons to
>>convert DVDs to xvids.
>Umm, not really. Going from DVD to DivX/Xvid achieves a downgrade in
>picture and sound quality. The only advantage in doing this is to
>reduce the size of a DVD movie/film & making it easier to pirate and
>distribute over P2P networks.
It also reduces the number of DVD discs needed to store the video.
Eventually we will store videos on hard drives and play them on
networked players connected to the TV. If someone would make a DVDR so
that we could capture TV programs to MPEG4 - on hard disk or on DVD
disc - then we will have the ultimate solution.
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.
I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
--Ronald Reagan
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