Officially known as the Digital Video Disc, though marketers unofficially refer to it as the Digital Versatile Disc. ... --- "High Definition Television." This is the most superior video picture available in DTV. In the US, the 1080i and 720p formats in a 16:9 aspect ratio are the two acceptable HDTV formats... Whatever, I stopped encoding for awhile, lost the point somewhere...takes too long and not enough space curently to surve any sort of purpose. In order for me to get more episodes of, say CSI, on a CD than a DVD I would have to encode, regardless of the GUI or settings, at a quality unacceptable to me.