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Originally Posted by Synetech  I’m not talking about me or backing it up. Forget about copying it at all, just look at the original discs themselves. Imagine if you had a collection of GI Joe action figures (or My Little Ponies or whatever), but half way through the run, they came up with a process that would allow them to make 12" figures for the same price as the 6" ones, and so half of the collection is bigger. Wouldn’t that be annoyingly inconsistent? Wouldn’t that ruin the collection? Or if you were collecting baseball cards (or stamps or whatever) and had a complete set that’s perfect except for the fact that they changed the background pattern on the last 10% of them? Maybe it’s just that I have mild OCD and so it bothers me when collections and sets are imperfect, but I really think that it is wrong to ruin a set. If I wanted better-encoded copies I would have bought the HD version of the set (and an HD player, and TV…) It is better to keep a set proper and consistent and when the opportunity arrives for improvement, to just create a whole new superior set. They already do that with most things because it makes more money forcing you to start over from scratch. |
Your examples don't relate to this situation because those examples will fundamentally change the entire nature of those sets. However, a higher bitrate video is completely transparent to the end-user experience. Unless you specifically looked up the size of the video, you would have no idea that those two episodes are larger than the others, so I don't see how that would be "annoyingly inconsistent" or how it would "ruin the collection." Assuming that you're not backing up the discs, then there's literally zero downside for you to have them fill up the disc. The last disc was going to have only two episodes on them anyway, and now they're higher quality. What's the big deal?
And even if you are backing up the discs (which you are), you're still compressing every single episode to make them fit onto single-layer DVDs in pairs, so the fact that those two episodes are larger than the rest means nothing to you in the end. The quality issues that you're having with those two episodes have nothing to do with their original size. The problem is likely to be with
DVD Shrink.