nickr said:

AntcuFaalb said:

nickr said:

Do people still use DVD/Bluray players do they? How quaint!

Yes, some still do; myself included.

Is your TV calibrated to sRGB then? Did you calibrate it relative to the input signal from the HTPC or did you calibrate it independently? Which probe do you use?

Are you feeding it from a playback unit (e.g., the Blackmagic Design UltraStudio Mini Monitor) or directly from your video card?

Video cards are damn unreliable when it comes to critical viewing on a calibrated setup.

I sure hope you're doing things right considering the amount of dick measuring you have going on in your post.

Sorry my post was meant to be light hearted. You have showed me how inadequate my setup is.

I am just so used to doing without silver discs, that I am surprised these days when people talk about them.

No offence intended.

None taken, I was kind of going the same direction as you. Especially as far as DVDs go. The only real use for DVDs that I have is SD television shows that will probably never get a better release. No use burning DVDs, as the DL ones are unreliable, and the equivalent hdd space is negligible.

But, actually, I just bought a BR burner this year, thanks mostly to all the fantastic quality encodings from members of this site and similar groups. The 25-50gb files were quickly filling up my hdd space, and I figured I might as well store them (or their backup copies, in some cases) with nice cases on the shelf. I end up grabbing the better quality versions of things like Harmy's project (making this an on topic post ;) ) instead of settling for a 8 gb lower bitrate encoding.

CatBus said:

Dang, that was your cue to trash-talk CRT's! Oh well, maybe next time.

And that was *your* cue to trash-talk T-9 phones!