Best video resolution for new ipad (3)?

If I want to put my own movies on the ipad (from dvds that I own, I have all the conversion tools I need), what is the recommended resolution?  The retina display is too good If I convert a movie to that resolution it would be 20G.  A 1920x1080 movie already takes up 7G, which is too much. 
I'm thinking that I probably cant even tell the difference between 1920x1080 and a lower resolution, like maybe 1440x900... the question is how low can I go and still have a film look really sharp with this new display?  I only have the 16G version so space is an issue.
I think maybe an upper limit of 2G per movie is reasonable...?

nicros wrote:
If I want to put my own movies on the ipad (from dvds that I own, I have all the conversion tools I need), what is the recommended resolution?
DVDs are SD, which is 720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL.
Converting to a higher resolution is pointless, it will just blob out the pixels.
You may want to remove the anamorphic conversion (wide screen movies stretch the horizonal size by 1.4 or close to it).
If you do this it will make sure that the iPad shows the video correctly.
To do so would be 1024X480 for NTSC, or 1024 x 576 for PAL.
The iPad will stretch it out to look full screen, and it will look sharper played out at the origonal reslution and resized on the fly, then it would doing an up-res in a domestic video converter.
Out of interest, the final video size is more determined my the compression ratio / datarate then the pixel size.
You could make a 4000x4000 pixel video in less the 1gb, just lower the compression; it would look rubbsih though.
Go for about 1500 to 3000 mb/s for SD, and higher for HD content in MP4 or Quicktime H.264.
I find most domestic or plain video converters do a bad conversion, and often tend to make files way to big for the quality of the source material. You can lower the data rate quite well in H.264 or MP4 without much noticable quality loss. Saving space for more videos in less space.

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