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No, it isn't. I thought that by comparing the quality to BD, that you were referring to regular DVD movies instead. I know very little about BD, because I only have one, and have never had any luck encoding it with any of my encoders. both the audio and video stutters badly.
Yes it is for Blu Ray quality.
I thought we were talking blu ray full HD quality.
To backup standard definition I'd just pull the movie only and store as the original in iso form. The original movie only (if that's the source) may be 5GB. Zip type compression isn't going to do much in my experience. Using Handbrake to re-encode could get it down to 2GB.
I think you can buy a 2TB HDD for ~$120 so I wouldn't bother re-encoding SD.
All of my videos were encoded from the movies only, using a variety of encoders (DVDFab8, WinX DVD Ripper Platinum, HandBrake and a few others on occasions), but none of them produced a file as large as 5GBs, despite the fact that I usually set the encoders to high quality, or second pass encoding. I have a few that ended up at ~ 1 - 1.3GBs, but most are ~ .5GBs. I'm not sure what we are doing differently, but while I could go for ~ 1GB on the size, 5GBs is too large for my taste.
BTW, I can buy 2TB drives for ~ $90 - $100.