Reply #1: yes

[gtp1976]

Back when I would download television shows P2P, if they were in .avi format, I would have to convert them to .mpeg in order to burn them to VCD's.

I would have to use 3 programs, Virtualdub, TMPENG (something like that) and then whatever to burn it to a disk. Then, I could play them on my DVD player. Quality was so-so but it was better than nothing because the shows were not yet available to purchase on DVD and I had not yet seen them.

Yes, I could have watched them on my computer, but my wife wanted to watch them as well, and my office was not baby-proofed like the living room was. Plus, once they were on disk, I could delete the obscenely large files from my hard drive.