I was looking at an Audio Visual forum and I was interested by a post I saw. They were talking about ripping a Blu-ray movie and putting it onto a DVD+DL. Obviously the movie would have to be reduced to fit on a 9gb DVD, but if all the extras were taken out and the rip was done, how good would the picture be in comparison to Blu-ray? I would run it from my Sony DVD player onto my 1080i TV through component leads.

Any thoughts? I thought about a quality scale of 1=Vhs, 5=DVD and 10 being Blu-ray

it depends on the software, but the quality will still not be as good as blu-ray and maybe even worse than a dvd. IIRC most bluray discs are 30GB plus, compressing to 9GB means losing a lot of data.

:)Agree with above. The HD DVD format ( loser to Blu-ray approx 50gb) were 25gb discs, which

meant that a reasonable length movie left little room for extras. To lose approx 16gb

off that would mean some serious compromise.

Cheap Blu-ray players and recordable media + software for copying will no doubt all

be readily available before long.

Your looking at around a 6-7 using your scale

It will be just as good as a DVD if not better as long as you use decent software

Xilisoft Video Converter gets my vote. It will convert any format into any other format. Im not sure how good the compression is from Blu-Ray to dvd tho as i have never tried it. My PS3 works fine so dont need to

Also you will notice a better picture if your DVD player is an upscaling one and you use a HDMI lead

I was originally looking at getting a standalone player for around 200 quid (Samsung bd-p1500). If I had gone for the conversion option, then I would have needed to buy a Blu-ray player for my pc at a cost of around 100 quid. Doesn't really make sense to convert really.

Am I missing something? I've never owned a PS3

Am I missing something? I've never owned a PS3

:D sorry didnt read the username properly thought you were Fluffmeister:rolleyes:

Note to self - Stop rushing:rofl:

it'll look no different to blu-ray if you do it right. we've had plenty of HD content on DVD's in the way of downloaded tv shows from america lost lost/hero's etc and either played them direct off the DVD or through the PS3 as divx and they looked excellent if recorded/compressed well.

For me the picture quality will definitely be degraded, but even more apparent will be the sound quality drop off. HD Audio (Dolby and DTS types) can have up to 8 tracks of uncompressed bit stream audio. If you think that an hours worth of stereo (2 tracks) can fill a CD (0.75gb) you can see that very roughly speaking, 4 times that over 2 hours will use around 6gb. That’s 6gbs of just Audio and if the film is 3 hours long it could be as high as 9gbs, that’s around a full DL DVD. As far as I know they probably can’t get HD 7.1 onto a 3 hour BluRay but they can just about squeeze 5.1 HD onto a DL BluRay disc.

They say BluRay can be made triple layer and theoretically could be made to go as far as Quad layer and Dual sided. That’s 200GB one little shiny disc, quite amazing to me and my ‘I don’t get out enough’ lifestyle.