last time i checked - AIC had double the performance of photojpeg 60%- twice as many layers at the same time- and i test up to 32 layers at the same time-
and is critical with hi-def and once you start using more than 6 layers- nothing else works well enough-
and a lot of people are doing this-
the fact that you cant see any difference is a good thing... ( as codec degradation is counter intuitive ... its much harder to encode a poor quality noisy image than a pristine clean one ... the opposite performance expectation to analogue video)
AIC is much much better than dv-pal-
and preserves much more graphics quality-
and dvpal only works at a single image size 720x576 -
but i have been involved in films for a long time, and dv-pal was good enough to broadcast in 1995... when dv cameras first came out -