Large DVD collections
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Did have upwards of 2000 before I got fed up with the increasing number of crap films I was buying and leaving on the shelf for no real reason.
Deecided it was getting silly and ripped a lot to HDD, kept about 150 at a guess, let mates take what they wanted, sold the rest in boxes to someone who was going to sell them at a car boot sale IIRC.
Deecided it was getting silly and ripped a lot to HDD, kept about 150 at a guess, let mates take what they wanted, sold the rest in boxes to someone who was going to sell them at a car boot sale IIRC.
smithsi said:
ChiChoAndy said:
As rip, might as well 'get them elsewhere'... it'll be quicker, easier, and less hassle.
Only trouble with that is that you might have someone banging on your door accusing you of piracy. Backing up your own media unlikely to get you in trouble with the law.Sadly, we don't have the luxury of the same "Fair Use" wossname in our constitution as the US does. We don't even HAVE a constitution.
Strictly speaking, it's not against the law, but it is copyright infringement.
Which is why I've never done it.
it takes a lot for me to buy a dvd. if the film is average or even 'good' then i won't buy it. same with music, i tend to vet things on mp3 first.
i have over 300dvd's, about 500cd's, similar amount of vinyl and a hundred or so books. the books are growing rapidly. i'd never sell any, and have just had the whole lot shipped out to me in the middle east.
i have over 300dvd's, about 500cd's, similar amount of vinyl and a hundred or so books. the books are growing rapidly. i'd never sell any, and have just had the whole lot shipped out to me in the middle east.
papercup said:
chris watton said:
I just had a look on the My Movies website, and it seems they only integrate the software with Windows media Player/centre - and so if I used it, it wouldn't recognise my movies that are all in uncomressed MKV files. is that right?
I have way too many DVD's and BR's, so I backed them all up on 2x2TB HDD's and stored the originals in the attic - what a space saver! We now have a small HTPC under the TV that stores every single one of my 400+ DVD's and Blu Rays, along with the huge music CD collection.
But it would be great if I could use a browser when looking at the films, like the My Movies software.
It will see MKVs. It makes a database and then Windows Media Centre integrates with it. So you launch it, and it basically launches Media Centre, but with this new-look front-end that looks to the back-end database. Worth a look. I have way too many DVD's and BR's, so I backed them all up on 2x2TB HDD's and stored the originals in the attic - what a space saver! We now have a small HTPC under the TV that stores every single one of my 400+ DVD's and Blu Rays, along with the huge music CD collection.
But it would be great if I could use a browser when looking at the films, like the My Movies software.
I see backing up myfilm collection as no different from backing up my music collection - I bought the originals and still have them. I know it's a legal grey area, but they are for no other use but personal.
The 'triple play' BR's and DVD's are a step forward, but are still very restrictive, allowing you to copy the film (and quite low quality at that, with no 5.1 digital sound - and only about 1.5GB cmpared to 4-6GB of a standard DVD) on one PC only - so no good for streaming to other PC's in the house.
chris watton said:
Cheers, have downloaded it and so will try it out later.
I see backing up myfilm collection as no different from backing up my music collection - I bought the originals and still have them. I know it's a legal grey area, but they are for no other use but personal.
The 'triple play' BR's and DVD's are a step forward, but are still very restrictive, allowing you to copy the film (and quite low quality at that, with no 5.1 digital sound - and only about 1.5GB cmpared to 4-6GB of a standard DVD) on one PC only - so no good for streaming to other PC's in the house.
Its bullsI see backing up myfilm collection as no different from backing up my music collection - I bought the originals and still have them. I know it's a legal grey area, but they are for no other use but personal.
The 'triple play' BR's and DVD's are a step forward, but are still very restrictive, allowing you to copy the film (and quite low quality at that, with no 5.1 digital sound - and only about 1.5GB cmpared to 4-6GB of a standard DVD) on one PC only - so no good for streaming to other PC's in the house.
t isn't it?Hmm, I've got two options here:
1. Buy legitimately: Gives me only a crappy copy digitally which I can do f&ck all with (if triple play) or I have to mess about with decoding and grey software to rip the thing and it's a faff and takes ages.
2. Download it from bittorent: Gives me a great quality digital copy I'm free to use how I like.
I'm not even talking about the fact that one's paid for and the other's free, no, the bittorent route is favourable just because it's actually LESS HASSLE than going (semi) legit.
Trustmeimadoctor said:
whats hard about installing makemkv put disk in drive select what you want to rip press button off it goes done full quality no compression wonderfull
The fact that after a bit of Googling it seems my QNAP NAS box running Twonymedia will not stream MKV's to my Xbox 360. But it will stream any .avi I get hold of via other methods.Brigand said:
When I moved house a few months ago, it struck me just how many DVD's I have, probably somewhere around the 200 mark.
Once I got settled in, me and the missus started going through all our stuff to see what we can flog at a car boot sale. Going through my DVD's, I found around sixty that I'm really not fussed about, and will sell.
The rest however, are still stacked up in the corner of the spare room at the moment, and there's still well over 100 of them. I could probably filter out a few more to sell, but what got me thinking was the fact that I haven't watched any of them for a long time now, so what's the point in keeping them at all? A lot of them are on TV from time to time anyway.
Does anyone else have large DVD collections, and what have you done with them? Can you keep justifying having so many?
I've thought about keeping just the box sets, and a few of my 'favoured' DVD's, then putting the rest in a DVD wallet, that way I don't have hundreds of boxes cluttering up my space. But on the other hand, it's nice to have a large collection on the shelf to browse!
Do you remember when studios started releasing Special Editions on VHS - IIRC, one of the first was Fox with the Aliens Special Edition.Once I got settled in, me and the missus started going through all our stuff to see what we can flog at a car boot sale. Going through my DVD's, I found around sixty that I'm really not fussed about, and will sell.
The rest however, are still stacked up in the corner of the spare room at the moment, and there's still well over 100 of them. I could probably filter out a few more to sell, but what got me thinking was the fact that I haven't watched any of them for a long time now, so what's the point in keeping them at all? A lot of them are on TV from time to time anyway.
Does anyone else have large DVD collections, and what have you done with them? Can you keep justifying having so many?
I've thought about keeping just the box sets, and a few of my 'favoured' DVD's, then putting the rest in a DVD wallet, that way I don't have hundreds of boxes cluttering up my space. But on the other hand, it's nice to have a large collection on the shelf to browse!
Anyway, that's when I started to buy/collect my favourite movies and used to pay full price.
Before I knew it, I had amassed a collection of 50+.
Along comes DVD and I ended up buying the same movies because of the increased DVD extras. Before you know it, you've been sucked in again.
I cottoned onto the fact that I was being silly paying full price as a few months later the price would plummet so modified my buying habits and only bought when the price dropped.
However, I ended up with a collection of about 100 movies which, in all honesty, I never/rarely watched so a few years ago I stopped buying at all - best decision I made.
I've yet to go HD in the living room but, when I do buy a Blu Ray player, I'll not be making the same mistake again unless it is a Star Wars box set for a silly price.
SpeedBash said:
I've yet to go HD in the living room but, when I do buy a Blu Ray player, I'll not be making the same mistake again unless it is a Star Wars box set for a silly price.
I think I've owned 7 or 8 different versions of the Star Wars films across various platforms
(VHS - standard, remastered and "extended", LD, DVD x 2 or 3 I can't remember)vladcjelli said:
chris watton said:
papercup said:
Then once you've ripped them, you install My Movies and it goes through, downloads the front and back covers of all of them, and all the cast, crew, synopses etc and puts them all in order, genre, etc. Its free.
I just had a look on the My Movies website, and it seems they only integrate the software with Windows media Player/centre - and so if I used it, it wouldn't recognise my movies that are all in uncomressed MKV files. is that right?I have way too many DVD's and BR's, so I backed them all up on 2x2TB HDD's and stored the originals in the attic - what a space saver! We now have a small HTPC under the TV that stores every single one of my 400+ DVD's and Blu Rays, along with the huge music CD collection.
But it would be great if I could use a browser when looking at the films, like the My Movies software.
Looks a bit like this:
Halb said:
I have/had a great collection of taped stuff from the 80s/90s. When I was broken into last week the thieving scum left my collection outside to get soaked...they might be fked now. Got stuff going back to 1982 on the old ferguson videostar!
Oh yes, the old clunky videostar ked now. Got stuff going back to 1982 on the old ferguson videostar!
Bloody awesome bit of kit. From what I read somewhere it gained popularity again at one time before DVD rippers came out as it ignored the DVD encryption on recording.
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