SL Blank Disk Or a DL Blank disk?

[Dretsel]

Question for the Forum? When you copy a movie;let's say The Bad Lieutenant:Port Of Call New Orleans from the original DVD movie is it best to use a SL Blank Disk Or a DL Blank disk? And Forum what is the difference between the two if any? Is the picture quality the same? Thank You Forum

[GregiBoy]

There are a couple of things to take into account here, the size of the original movie/disk and the amount of compression that will take place.

This amount of compression is shown down near where you select DVD5/DVD9.

Most will tell you that anything below 80% compression is noticable. Whenever you compress, obviously there is quality loss but above 80% this does not seem noticeable.

You can keep the compression at a minimum by using the "Main Movie" mode which cuts out all the extras which are quite a lot on some titles.

Try changing from DVD9/DVD5 and Full Disk/Main Movie and you will see the results in this area.

[Dretsel]

Thank you GregiBoy. I see you know your stuff!!

[Complication]

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[ripvanwinkle1819]

Just thought I would add this. There is a sticky thread started in the General Chat, with regards to Blank Media deals. You may find some good pricing on some DL's.

rip

[master333]

if you choose good compression settings and movie only then you could easily fit it on dvd5 sl.