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Bill Watson · June 1st, 2007, 04:09 AM

Are all DVD burners equal?

I've got a Sony DW-G120A.

While I'm happy with the quality of the mpeg2 videos I'm rendering to my hard drive, I'm disappointd that there's some edge distortion when I burn to DVD.

Software is DVD Architect.

Boyd Ostroff · June 1st, 2007, 06:21 AM

The DVD burner just writes digital data to disk and shouldn't introduce any distortion in the image. Not sure what's going on, but the data on your DVD should be exactly the same as the file on your computer. If it looks different between your computer screen and TV then I'd suspect the TV or the analog circuits in your DVD player.

Bill Watson · June 1st, 2007, 12:10 PM

Sorry, I'll elaborate.

The mpeg2 file I create in Vegas looks great on my 20 inch LCD monitor when viewed in Movie Player from my hard drive but not so good when played back on the DVD I created in Architect, even though it told me there would be no re-compression.

It also shows on my 32 inch Sony high def (1080) crt Television.

There's a bit of jaggedy edge on a diagonal object in the frame which only shows after I burn to DVD.

Bill Watson · June 1st, 2007, 12:19 PM

Ok.

I've just re=imported the video component from the DVD in question, rendered it to the hard drive as an mpeg again and viewed it in Movie Player.

Looks fine. Yet on my computer DVD player and my consumer DVD player it has these (interlace?) lines.

June 1st, 2007, 04:09 AM	#1
Bill Watson Major Player Join Date: May 2007 Location: Noosa Queensland Australia Posts: 248	DVD Burners Are all DVD burners equal? I've got a Sony DW-G120A. While I'm happy with the quality of the mpeg2 videos I'm rendering to my hard drive, I'm disappointd that there's some edge distortion when I burn to DVD. Software is DVD Architect.

June 1st, 2007, 06:21 AM	#2
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,787	The DVD burner just writes digital data to disk and shouldn't introduce any distortion in the image. Not sure what's going on, but the data on your DVD should be exactly the same as the file on your computer. If it looks different between your computer screen and TV then I'd suspect the TV or the analog circuits in your DVD player.

June 1st, 2007, 12:10 PM	#3
Bill Watson Major Player Join Date: May 2007 Location: Noosa Queensland Australia Posts: 248	Sorry, I'll elaborate. The mpeg2 file I create in Vegas looks great on my 20 inch LCD monitor when viewed in Movie Player from my hard drive but not so good when played back on the DVD I created in Architect, even though it told me there would be no re-compression. It also shows on my 32 inch Sony high def (1080) crt Television. There's a bit of jaggedy edge on a diagonal object in the frame which only shows after I burn to DVD.

June 1st, 2007, 12:19 PM	#4
Bill Watson Major Player Join Date: May 2007 Location: Noosa Queensland Australia Posts: 248	Ok. I've just re=imported the video component from the DVD in question, rendered it to the hard drive as an mpeg again and viewed it in Movie Player. Looks fine. Yet on my computer DVD player and my consumer DVD player it has these (interlace?) lines.