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FoBoT said:
use the cloud
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lol'd

1080p, disc copy or whatever. (Best picture possibly basically) I can tell the difference between 720P and 1080P, but, to be honest, there is almost no difference with a lot of online sources... Their 1080P version has far too little bandwidth to supply the 2.25 times more pixels.
 
Good grief. resolution doesn't determine quality, Bit-Rate does. You can rip a BR to 720 with a high Bit-Rate and have a better quality copy than ripping the same BR to 1080 at a low Bit-Rate.

Seriously, use your heads.
 
MaxFusion16 said:
uncompressed iso rip, there is no other way
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That is the way to go. Have a perfect backup and then, if you need a copy for mobile viewing etc, create a lower quality too.

To be fair, nobody is going to make 720 rips when their TV supports 1080, but there is a huge disparity between a good copy and a bad one. Any 1080 above 12Mb/s (x264) is good enough for me to enjoy and the resulting file size is around 10-12GB, depending on the movie length.
 
uncompressed, if you are have to. just realize that the resolution will probably be obsolete before you take the time to actually watch any of them.
 
Cuda1447 said:
On one side, 1080p is the best quality, so why not preserve it? On the flip side though, 720p still looks great (do you even notice a difference?) and the file sizes will be much smaller enabling you to backup more movies before having to buy an external HD.
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Doubt you would be able to tell the difference unless you were on a projector.

Hell, 1/2 of TV is 720p including 90% of sports.
 
LOL@ All of the people saying to rip it uncompressed. Just re-encode it with DVDFab at ~15MBps and it will look excellent.
 
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1080p . I don't want to have to worry myself wondering if 1080p would have been better during every cool looking scene in a movie.
 
Mine are all on hard drive as fully uncompressed ISOs. They take up TONS of space, but it's just like having the disc in. Using a 12tb NAS.
 
Cuda1447 said:
Let's assume you are backing up your entire blu-ray collection and that it is rather large and will continue to grow. You normally playback the files via hard drive on a 52" 1080p capable tv. What format do you go with?


On one side, 1080p is the best quality, so why not preserve it? On the flip side though, 720p still looks great (do you even notice a difference?) and the file sizes will be much smaller enabling you to backup more movies before having to buy an external HD.


Which would you choose?
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1080p. Storage is cheap nowadays.
 
Make 1080p rips for flix that you really like and want to see in 1080p, and the rest in 720p (especially those that doesn't really benefit much in 1080p). Unless you are seated close enough to the TV to notice the quality differences I think that strategy will work.
 
i just want to convert my HD DVD collection to BR.

2 TB drives are cheap, might as well rip at native bitrate.
 
Nebor said:
Mine are all on hard drive as fully uncompressed ISOs. They take up TONS of space, but it's just like having the disc in. Using a 12tb NAS.
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What do you use to play them back with? XBMC doesn't want to play well with my ISO's so I'm getting ready to encode them all into a Matroska container.
 
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