Jay said:Where are you going to store all these Blu-ray titles anyway? A $250 Blu-ray player is too expensive, but tossing a couple terabyte drives into a media server to store a modest Blu-ray collection (in addition to the costs of the discs themselves) is somehow reasonable?
like i said, i agree with you about most of your points..however 1) thanks to the beauty of avc/mp4
vc1 compression, a GOOD 1080p rip can fit in 9gigs...(well at least it seems that way), so i could
'potentially' store about, what around 90-100 movies? which i do have (although most are downloads, or HD-DVD's that i own)..
i don't know if you read my earlier problem, but i am inundated with thousands of movies, dvds,
burned discs, etc..... there's no way that even buying a bd-rom drive, and bd blanks will solve
that.... the media extender is cheap, and hard disk space is getting cheap, i hope in the next
few years, i will be able to get a 10 Terabyte drive for just as cheap..
I used to be in the same camp. I built several crazy HTPCs and had grand designs of a media center with all my DVDs ripped and stored. Then I realized how much easier it was to put in the da*n disc and press play. And then I realized that all my tweaking and other nonsense gave me image quality that was about on par with high-end DVD players that cost as much as my HTPC. I can't believe how much I used to obsess over ffdshow settings. F**king Lanczos vs. bicubic scaling. Jesus Christ.
i'm not worried about settings and such, but the access.. it's impossible for me to dig through all
my movies/videos/music.... i was about ready to give up, this is a good compromise (to me), of
course most people don't have as much, so it wouldn't be a problem for them..
Geeks tend to geek out and do things for the sake of doing them and not because they really make sense. Only nerds care about this s*it. DRM and media server friendliness have had zero effect on Blu-ray's adoption and will have zero effect on its future. 99.999% of consumers just don't care.
again, i agree with, look how long the encryption on DVD's lasted (not very)...
and by the way, the encryption on most downloadable formats is much harder to crack
(stupid amazon unbox!!!!) WMV's, what a pain..
the only thing is, once storage gets smaller/cheaper, why not have a small setup like
this to store all your movies... i never thought people wanted their entire music collection
on 80/120 gigs drives to carry with them, boy was i wrong about that!
later
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