On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:42:55 -0500, Free Agent <freeagent@nospam.com>
wrote:
>Just starting to get into this myself now. I appreciate having JB's
>complete untouched BD's like here and in the other group (and Bugzzy
>was doing for awhile) even though I can't really collect them the way
>I have with dvd's. Afterall, only 40 of these 50GB BD's will fill up
>a 2T HDD. Considering the number of DVD's I have, there's no way to
>be able to collect these BD's at the same rate with the current costs
>of media.
>
If you still like to collect them, EHDD's are cheaper imho, say you
could get 40 BD50's on a 2TB EHDD, this will cost around $130, (where
I come from), 40 Blu-Ray media is around $425 (basic Verbatim). You
will need a Blu-Ray burner obviously and player connected to your TV
as well as a lot of patience and hope it will burn alright.
>But there are other ways to do it, like:
>
>1. Watch them at the 25 or 50GB size off the hdd, for awhile. and
>then.
>
>2. For those I have to have, I can either reduce to 25GB BD single
>layer at appx $1 US or
>
>3. Reduce them even further to "BD5" or "BD9" which are still
>significantly high quality vs. SD dvd (1080p or even 720p's are much
>nicer looking than even untouched DVD's). The h264's being mpeg4 can
>be compressed without the blockies you get with mpeg2 compression
>since the format is more foregiving in that regard.
>
>There is the free beta software BD Rebuilder, which will compress BD
>to 25, 9, or 5GB with or without menus. Good thing came out of this
>for me-- having tried it -- it makes it apparent I have to get a new
>computer -- it took several days to Compress the single layer "City
>Girl" to BD9 with my present cpu.
>
This is very interesting, something I have been looking for some time.
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/299579-How-to-shrink-a-Blu-ray-to-DVD-5-DVD-9-or-BD-25
If these works the way they say it does my problems are over, as JB
stated, 90% is still released on DVD, still worries me about the 10% I
will have to store as BD25 or 50 or will be left out.
>For those who don't realize it, BD5 and BD9 are actually blurays
>written to DVD5 and DVD9 respectively using either a DVD or BD
>burner. They will not play on DVD players. They only play on BD
>players or on the computer DVD drive. But the point is you don't need
>a BD burner to create them and the media cost is dvd media cost
>(though BD burners are now starting to drop under $100. and BD media
>seems to be dropping in price also.
>
>4. Keep them on HDD.
>
>And keep in mind if the current usenet retentions continue, these
>posts should still be available to burn to media when the price of
>media drops to reasonable levels.
>
>Free Agent
>
>PS. I guess one indication BD media prices are starting to drop is
>that DVD media prices have really dropped recently (now paying about
>15 - 16 cents apiece for dvd5). I was starting to think about
>storing files on HDD but with the drop in dvd5 prices, HDD storage is
>still more expensive for me at the cheapest 2T drive still over $100
It's all about storage, isn't it..and the quality the way we want to
see flicks.
Someday, perhaps not so distant, we will have our collections in the
cloud, with unlimited storage space and streaming connection to our tv
set.
UtNut
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