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Xtras:
A lot of the titles I was originally looking into to buying on DVD have been encoded by various groups. OZC for example even includes 5.1 channel audio and has movies with enormous resolutions. Ignoring the blu-ray titles, I was looking at gundam seed destiny by AHQ and the subtitle styling and all was pretty cool. I was wondering, if I were to burn an encode to a DVD, how would it compare to the actual DVD's quality. Do most encoding groups capture the full quality of a dvd during their encoding process? And in what ways would the official DVD out do the burned fansub?

BuriaL:
The dvd format is obsolete.

That sums up all my thoughts about it.

Lupin:
When you encode, your pretty sure to lose details. It depends on the encoder how much detail is lost. This assumes the source of the encode is the same DVD.

Sosseres:
More recently the source for many encodes is HDTV or Bluray, both in much higher resolution than DVD. Even with some quality lost it is better quality.

Mirgond:

--- Quote from: xtras on August 14, 2009, 11:34:52 PM ---A lot of the titles I was originally looking into to buying on DVD have been encoded by various groups. OZC for example even includes 5.1 channel audio and has movies with enormous resolutions. Ignoring the blu-ray titles, I was looking at gundam seed destiny by AHQ and the subtitle styling and all was pretty cool. I was wondering, if I were to burn an encode to a DVD, how would it compare to the actual DVD's quality. Do most encoding groups capture the full quality of a dvd during their encoding process? And in what ways would the official DVD out do the burned fansub?

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If you wanted to buy the DVDs (or in the future the BDs) and you have the money then do it...
1) Most studios should be rewarded for their work
2) It's a lame reason to say "I wanted to buy them, but the fansubs are nowadays so good, why bother" to not buy them after planing to do so.

That's exactly the reasoning the studios always say the "damned" fansubbers and leechers have and why they lose more money then making it with producing anime.

So what would be better with the original DVDs?
Following:

* Still better quality
* The studios get money for more anime (and to pay their staff... Hei, some people are living on that money!)
* You have a nice box/some nice DVD cases on your shelves
* And you have the good feeling to be on the light side of the force *cough*
I can understand it that you use the fansub-rips, if it is not possible to get the anime in your country, but there are so many ways to get them today for most people on the planet, that i can't understand it if you don't buy them when it is possible for you and you have the money... (some should stop smoking for example: saves money and is better for you health plus you can buy anime from the saved money ^^)

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