When encoding video, I always used the bitrate option rather than the size option, because I feel that choosing the size option limits/stops the film being given the quality that it needed.
True, the picture is naturally much sharper on an LCD TV than on a domestic CRT, and macro-blocking from a poorly encoded source will stick out like a sore thumb.
I never realised just how poor Freeview was until I got my first LCD TV.
Well all my DVDs are done at 352x288 and to me look fine on my 32 inch CRT.
Its a compromise between quality and convenience.
No way, that is watching the lowest grade youtube video on a 32". Convenience? You watch film all day? There is a reason no one cares about a video ipod, no one watches jukebox movies for days at a time.
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Well all my DVDs are done at 352x288 and to me look fine on my 32 inch CRT.
Its a compromise between quality and convenience.
The quality's different on a CRT than it is with LCD. I compared the two after playing an encoded video I'd done ages ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video#Frame_size_and_frame_rate
True, the picture is naturally much sharper on an LCD TV than on a domestic CRT, and macro-blocking from a poorly encoded source will stick out like a sore thumb.
I never realised just how poor Freeview was until I got my first LCD TV.
No way, that is watching the lowest grade youtube video on a 32". Convenience? You watch film all day? There is a reason no one cares about a video ipod, no one watches jukebox movies for days at a time.