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9th November 2018, 00:13 | #31 | |
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I don't have anything against digital downloads at all. But, having a physical format handy, specially of some movie/music album/game you know you will always come back to, sometime, it's better than having just files all over the place. Plus, you get also the best transfer you can have and lossless surround sound (which is something that HD broadcast channels can't still offer, due to the higher bandwidth that these codecs require). Anyway, back on the backup topic, DL BDs are great. Though, Verbatims (the only brand that has never failed on any BD drive I had, so far) are getting more expensive and very hard to find, these days. Have always have to import them from Japan. Thankfully they have more accessible prices for 50 pieces cakes. But it's always a pain to wait 15-20 days, specially if you need to free some disk space. So I always end up buying regular 25 GB BD-Rs, which serve me well enough on the music/game department.
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I get the feeling they'll make it harder for us to find these discs soon.
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9th November 2018, 16:05 | #33 | |
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It has always been the same with DVD+-R DL discs, when Blockbusters were still around. And it is still is the same with those discs too. Nothing has changed. Oh, well. Most BD-DL movies really don't exceed 34-40 GB at all. So it's not a problem "shrinking" them down to 25 GB (by deselecting extra audio tracks) and burn them on a SL BD disc. The problem comes with those 4K movies that come with both HDR/DolbyVision (which they have 2 separate video streams, just like 3D Blu-Ray) that they're over 80 GB. That's definitely gonna be a very big challenge to shrink them down to 25 GB. That's why I still haven't bothered in downloading 4K ISO files, yet. Right now I got The Dark Knight and The Matrix Trilogy in 4K Blu (both with HDR10/DolbyVision). I only need to wait for the Asus UHD-Friendly drive to arrive, then I will make some tests to see how can I shrink them (without losing any HDR information) so that I can even watch them on my 4K TV from my external HDD. We'll see how that goes.
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I don't even have a 4K TV, not in any rush to get one.
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9th November 2018, 23:24 | #35 |
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I got one, mainly because I had to change my 27" DELL IPS monitor (that I used as a TV) that I bought almost 10 years ago.
It started to show its age, so I had to pick a new TV/Monitor for the living room, anyway. And so I picked up a 43" Samsung 4K SmartTV that was very convenient and future-proof for my tastes. But, if my old DELL monitor continued to work, I would had probably waited another year or so, before jumping into the 4K bandwagon. That's for sure. I still haven't haven't changed/upgraded anything at all on my HTPC setup. Everything is still 1080p, and i'm still running an old 5.1 Onkyo as a surround setup. For 7.1 audio and above, i'm using a good pair of wireless Sony headphones that I imported from Japan that support HDMI and can decode also DTS:X/Atmos, along standard DTS and Dolby True HD and legacy codecs. They have 9 tiny little speakers for each ear, and can provide discrete 9.1 Surround Sound. Definitely very inexpensive than buying a new A/V Receiver, along with new speakers, cables and anything. And definitely a very good option, too, when my cousin and her kids are staying at my place.
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