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lyd
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: Duping HD-DVD to Blu-Ray ifwhen HD-DVD goes away. |
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Just shopping for some new movies, and I see that there are a lot of price breaks on HD-DVD at the moment, as they try to win more market.
I have it in my head, based on what I can do right now, that if HD-DVD ever goes away to the point that playback hardware is very difficult to obtain that I will be able to rip at least the main feature and audio, then burn it to BD.
Can anyone think of any compelling reason that this isn't going to be easily done?
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AnalogRocks
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Price of the blank disk's is the first thing that comes to mind.
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lyd
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | Price of the blank disk's is the first thing that comes to mind. |
Well, and the BD burner. I am looking down the road when these things are more of a commodity.
For the short term there is no problem. I'm just trying to gauge the risk of obsolescence in the long term. Seems small to me, as long as I can transfer the stuff.
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Clarence
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Buying a HD-DVD player for <$99 and HD DVDs for <$10 is a lot easier that trying to rip to BD.
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AnalogRocks
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| lyd wrote: |
| AnalogRocks wrote: | wrote:
Price of the blank disk's is the first thing that comes to mind. |
Well, and the BD burner. I am looking down the road when these things are more of a commodity.
For the short term there is no problem. I'm just trying to gauge the risk of obsolescence in the long term. Seems small to me, as long as I can transfer the stuff.
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Yeah that's true.
I know of a guy that transferd a great deal of his laserdisk collection to DVD. Worked out great for him. In the begining when DVD's actually cost something he was probably saving $30 per movie as compared to buying new. He had a cool Pioneer DVD recorder that could encode the 5.1 DD too.
I thought about doing that but just never bothered. I found renting easier and I think I only re-bought a few titles. However with HD-DVD/Bluray I bet I end up re-buying more.
But you are right. We have the technology to take the movie off of one disk and put it on another. If we can get the authoring right and make the menu's work then we're all set.
EDIT: Spell check. 
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garyfritz
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I suspect a lot of the menu and/or interactivity stuff would pose a real problem. If you dissect the HD-DVD and extract only the movie content, you could probably re-engineer a BD menu structure. But I'm with Clarence -- a cheap player is a lot simpler answer. (As long as the player doesn't die after it's impossible to buy a new one... but in that case there would probably be plenty of used ones on the market.)
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lyd
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| garyfritz wrote: | | I suspect a lot of the menu and/or interactivity stuff would pose a real problem. If you dissect the HD-DVD and extract only the movie content, you could probably re-engineer a BD menu structure. But I'm with Clarence -- a cheap player is a lot simpler answer. (As long as the player doesn't die after it's impossible to buy a new one... but in that case there would probably be plenty of used ones on the market.) |
I don't care much about the menus. I very rarely look at extras in the first place. Ripping main feature and audio would completely satisfy me.
I have the combo drive now, and would happily keep buying combo drives as time passes. The red flag would go up the day there are no more HD-DVD readers in active production. That's the day I would want to start transferring those disks to some other media.
Of course, magnetic storage may be so cheap by then that it will make more sense to just rip them to HDD and leave them that way, mirrored to an offline drive for backup... *shrug*
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| lyd wrote: |
Of course, magnetic storage may be se cheap by then that it will be make more sense to just rip them to HDD and leave them that way, mirrored to an offline drive for backup... *shrug*
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Seems like the easiest option,and flash media would let you take it to view elsewhere.
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