I admit, I keep a whs with at the moment 10tb of storage. I put all of my dvds and movies on it. That way all the xboxes and ps3 see them. (I use ps3mediaserver for my upnp w/transcoder). It makes life easier to have all my media everywhere in the house without hauling around discs that get destroyed. And trust me, that's a bitch. I immediately rip bd and hie the discs. I replaced 'Cars' at least twice to kids. Its the one thing I hate about games. We picked up 'uncharted 2' for Christmas and it lasted all of two weeks before a kid destroyed it.
Rip and hide the originals. If the disc has a digital copy (several) then at times I'll use that. But no way do I leave originals out, ever. I will also say that having it in mkv in this mode means no recompression so completely original quality, and all my media centers grab hold. For tv series its better. I hate swapping discs. With mytv, and all the shows archives to my whs, I can see an entire season at once and flow through. And since they are pulled in full quality from my dvds/bd, I'm not looking at some cruddy web rips. But yeah, kids are the hugemotivating factor for me. That and load times. I have the oppo83. Great player. But uh, nothing gets straight to the movie remotely as quick as just the straight up mkv Sent via BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Fisk <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:34:27 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] Strong recommend On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > I want to ask this for information purposes only...why bother ripping DVD and > Blu-rays? I've done this...and frankly, I've lost interest in doing it. But > I > get the impression that some here are ripping multitudes of movies to > magnetic > media...I have a large collection of Blus and DVDs, but I don't watch > anything > frequently enough to need it online (like in my house). For new content, it > does make some sense, though, if you don't want to own the content you an > download it...but if I want to watch upstaris rather than down, then I just > go > get the disc...I'm not too lazy YET to do that...and it's way better than > having an HD farm that sucking down juice 24/7 (it occurs to me that cheap > HDs > make this all too tempting to do, though, so I can get that). At least to me > it is.... I have just started to rip DVD's and toss them on my PC. With Tivo Desktop plus my TiVo can transfer them over and I can watch very easilly. Simple things like the 8 second rewind and the tivo remote controlling it is worth it for me. Christopher Fisk
