The last movie you saw...

[dinky]

bluray

Hence why it means diddly squat and won't be bought by me, waiting for this noddy format to shuffle off. I hope they release a proper format sooner or later, preferably not a bit update that just means its slightly bigger and a heck of a lot slower than existing means

don't you have a 1080p projector yet? I seem to remember you shopping one a while back. My point being - not that I love BD, but - there's a massive difference watching 480p vs. 720p vs. 1080p on a 72" projector. However, just because it's on BD doesn't mean it's a quality transfer. I'll prolly buy it if/when the price is reasonable ($14.99 or less).

[maxpayne2409]

im getting it with the ghostbusters video game, so im getting the bluray at a reduced price

[dinky]

if you're buying the vg, then you're not getting anything at a reduced price.

[maxpayne2409]

have you played the vg yet? no, so it might be really really good

[elguaxo]

not that I love BD, but - there's a massive difference watching 480p vs. 720p vs. 1080p on a 72" projector.

you can download 1080p rips you can even download untouched blurays! Not all 1080p rips have the same quality of the blurays, but they are getting there.

[maxpayne2409]

yeah ive got quite a lot of 1080p ones myself, untouched

[Jynks]

not that I love BD, but - there's a massive difference watching 480p vs. 720p vs. 1080p on a 72" projector.

you can download 1080p rips you can even download untouched blurays! Not all 1080p rips have the same quality of the blurays, but they are getting there.

Yea.. but downloading a what.. 28 gig file for a single movie at 1080p... + storage and all... it is starting to get more of a pain that simply walking into the store and getting it on BR disk. Spesh in fucked up shitty net places like Australia where we still get our downloaded metered and counted... there are no broadband unlimited gigabyte plans out here.

And what... a 1TB Drive is like 200ish... = about 6 1080p films... has risk of drive crashing....

I just think it is getting to the point that buying the originals is the best way to go. Or getting a BR drive for you computer and joining a online dvd rental place and just ripping them yourself. Then like i said once you have the rips.. you need to work out a place to store it.

Also you need some special hardware to watch 1080p nowdays... WD HD Media Player can pump it out and there is teh Media Tank.... these are the only hardware media players that support MKV that i know if.....

bluray

Hence why it means diddly squat and won't be bought by me, waiting for this noddy format to shuffle off. I hope they release a proper format sooner or later, preferably not a bit update that just means its slightly bigger and a heck of a lot slower than existing means

I think you will be waiting a while... . this formate is not going anywhere

[elguaxo]

untouched blurays are big, from 20 to 40GB depending on the movie, but 1080p rips are ~10GB and most of them fit into a DVD9. And you don't have to store them all, crappy movies are watch and delete

Also you need some special hardware to watch 1080p nowdays... WD HD Media Player can pump it out and there is teh Media Tank.... these are the only hardware media players that support MKV that i know if.....

there are tons of them.
Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/
Eminent EM7071: http://www.eminent-online.com/producten ... 7071&pg=45

AC Ryan PlayOn!HD - http://www.playonhd.com/ - 150 euro's
Asus O!Play HDP-R1 - http://www.asus.com/News.aspx?N_ID=wUbKQ3nv6gSQaey2 - 120 euro's
Xstreamer - http://www.xtreamer.net/ - 99 euro's

and the list goes on...

[maxpayne2409]

Spesh in fucked up shitty net places like Australia where we still get our downloaded metered and counted... there are no broadband unlimited gigabyte plans out here.

Wow Jynks your from australia? i always figured with your mass of typos you were from somewhere like the netherlands or something, where english isn't your first language

Incidently, for any doctor who fans, classic doctor who probably never come to bluray in the way movies do, ironically the early doctor who that still only exists on film is more likely to go HD then later video recorded eps.

[dinky]

not that I love BD, but - there's a massive difference watching 480p vs. 720p vs. 1080p on a 72" projector.

you can download 1080p rips you can even download untouched blurays! Not all 1080p rips have the same quality of the blurays, but they are getting there.

not on my computer. I need the hw acceleration on the gfx card (speaking of the 1080p recodes) just to play mpeg2 blurays smoothly. but I don't have the hdd space anyway. I have 1.5 tb spread over 3 hdds on 2 machines plus an additional ~300gb on the C drives. they're near their limits with movies and series rips. I blame you, btw. since most of the offending files are anime I haven't seen yet. also can't stream anything above 720p over my network (windows "says" it's a gb network).

[maxpayne2409]

that sucks dinkelton, i don't just grab any old bluray rip or untouched, actually its rare i bother with the rips, i usually got for untouched, but they have to be specifically cool iconic movies for me to bother downloading and storing them, such as terminator 1 & 2 and so on

[dinky]

T2 is very cheap. I picked it up 6 months ago for like $12. it was cheaper than the docu BDs.

[maxpayne2409]

i'm guessing that was just basic t2, the equivalent of a onedisc dvd with no extras

[Jynks]

i never delete anything. I am nearing 26TB of offline drives now.. . .

[Jynks]

Also you need some special hardware to watch 1080p nowdays... WD HD Media Player can pump it out and there is teh Media Tank.... these are the only hardware media players that support MKV that i know if.....

there are tons of them.
Popcorn Hour: http://www.popcornhour.com/
Eminent EM7071: http://www.eminent-online.com/producten ... 7071&pg=45

AC Ryan PlayOn!HD - http://www.playonhd.com/ - 150 euro's
Asus O!Play HDP-R1 - http://www.asus.com/News.aspx?N_ID=wUbKQ3nv6gSQaey2 - 120 euro's
Xstreamer - http://www.xtreamer.net/ - 99 euro's

and the list goes on...

really... and these can stream 1080p and DTS sound and play MKV containers with x264?

[elguaxo]

really... and these can stream 1080p and DTS sound and play MKV containers with x264?

yes.

[Jynks]

really... and these can stream 1080p and DTS sound and play MKV containers with x264?

yes.

do these have that sigma chipset as well? i can not find info on the chipset for those things

[elguaxo]

I think the 3 players posted by vigi have a new Realtek chipset and the Popcorn Hour has a Sigma SMP8635.

edit: yes, the chipset of those other 3 is a Realtek.

[spudthedestroyer]

bluray

Hence why it means diddly squat and won't be bought by me, waiting for this noddy format to shuffle off. I hope they release a proper format sooner or later, preferably not a bit update that just means its slightly bigger and a heck of a lot slower than existing means

don't you have a 1080p projector yet? I seem to remember you shopping one a while back. My point being - not that I love BD, but - there's a massive difference watching 480p vs. 720p vs. 1080p on a 72" projector. However, just because it's on BD doesn't mean it's a quality transfer. I'll prolly buy it if/when the price is reasonable ($14.99 or less).

elg picked up on my point

Who said anything about HD not being an upgrade?

why buy a crummy technology when i can download 1080p content until they sort their shit out? Its not just the price, which is woefully high in EUR and GBP, I am a heck of a lot better off financially than I was a year ago, its the fact that it is an utterly, utterly pointless bit of technology with no redeeming features. So its 15 Euros for nothing.

I have plenty of hd content, but I'm not buying blu-ray because its shit, its slow, and i didn't spend 450 Euro on a ps3 i feel i need to justify like the vast majority of bluray enthusiasts

I could probably go out and buy 20x PS3 and a wealth of blu-rays tomorrow (I might have to cut down on beer and food for a little while though ), I just think neither warrant my attention due to a plethora of technical inadequacies. These technical inadequacies unfortunately means that for the duration of this lull, the movie industry is only going to get cinema ticket revenue from me.

[maxpayne2409]

which is something they will never get from me until they stop with the endless pointless remakes and sequels