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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Nice! This is the kind of feedback I've been looking for. Especially the bit about syncing rips. I've been slowly ripping my dvd collection... very nice to hear indeed.
And the new 160GB one is only 349...
Hmmm...
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For DVD rips, I think you need to get them into h.264 format. There's lots of utils that will help you with that, I use VisualHub on the Mac and it works well. If you've already ripped a substantial portion of your library to some other video format, I haven't really noticed that big a loss in quality transcoding (eg. going from DIVX to h.264) as long as the source material was ripped at a decent bit rate.
2500 kbps rips look fine on the AppleTV, you can go up to a theoretical 5000 kbps, but I don't notice any improvement visually, and the file sizes of course balloon way up.