That's Lon BTW.
Yes, the subject of digital video is a complex one. I have a lot of questions about it.
Over at a place called afterdawn, I put out the request to
have someone with BT cut a set of disks for me-- someone who knows
what they're doing. Afterdawn looks like a good site like AudioRoundtable only focussing on video more than audio. I feel fortunate to have found it after the poor start I had with some
BitTorrent sites.