Having a collection of media files dating back from the late 90's, the beaucoup problemo of maintaining an up-to-date level of standards becomes more prevalent with every release of a new and improved codec.

Take witness one of the first movies that started my collection, 1999's teen romantic comedy 10 Things I Hate About You. The first version I had was actually a 300mb ASF file, which has since been replaced (as with most of my videos) with some variant of early DivX or XviD encoded AVI's. But AVI's have come and gone with the mid-twenty-aughts (2000s) to make room for the much cleaner and more efficient H.264.

Tonight I decided to take my library one step closer with a new BDRip of 10 Things. For the purpose of documenting the difference between these files, I have taken 12 screen caps from each version for you to compare. Enjoy.

10 Things I Hate About You.avi
600mb | DivX MPEG-4 V3.x | 704 x 432

10 Things I Hate About You.mp4
1.79gb | H.264 | 1280 x 688