future proofing video collection

[Munson]

I have always kept my old Jackanory episodes in 800mb in Xvid in an avi holder but I am considering starting to collect them in the mkv and/or ts. Are there any downsides to this idea? I would obviously like to play them on a HDTV via hdmi. I presume this is ok?

What I mean is that avi is pretty universal in the PC world but I would like to keep my shizzle in higher quailty and be able to watch it on PC or TV well into the future.

 

[McBunny]

well you cant go higher than the source so a .ts file of jackanory thats never was transmitted in hd wont be any better qulaity in a ts than xvid really unless you really compress the xvid