Originally Posted by abachler
RAR is much better than ZIP. ZIP is very poor compression for one, and it lacks a lot of other features that RAR has. RAR has been around for ~15 years so its not like its some new standard. RAR can handle error correction, volume splitting, opens more file types, has a lot of backup features, and is just as free as winzip. Another nice feature of RAR is you can create recovery volumes AFTER the fact.
I haven't seen you give one reason why ZIP is better than RAR.
As far as RARing video's, RAR can compress an MPEG4 by an additional 10% on average. may not seem like much to you, but it means a lot to the guy paying the bill for the website that is hosting the files.