What's your DVD collection like?

[Muse]

DVDProfiler.com is a great way to keep track of your DVD's. You have reviews instantly, all the features. Entering your DVDs is as easy as entering the UPCs. It's totally fast. There's a lot going on in that software I haven't looked at yet. I program databases and there's no way I could create something to track my collection that could touch DVDProfiler. It links your collection to some deep info. You have the option of making your collection accessible to others (to see, not change, of course), others who have a password key, or nobody, your choice.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

My DVDs

I've got some loaned out to friends so that's not all of them

 

[HendrixFan]

Originally posted by: kami
Around ~150 DVDs. I used to track them with DVD profiler but it became a PITA.

I have almost every DVD I've ever had in a high quality rip on my HD, and maybe a couple dozen on official discs.

"high quality" and "rip" don't belong in the same sentence. Unless you have every DVD sitting on your hard drive uncompressed (~9gb each) then it means it was recompressed and you lost an assload of quality, not to mention surround sound.

maybe they look fine on a 19" monitor or 25" TV, but I tried DivX and other rips on my toshiba 50" widescreen HDTV and it looks unbelievably horrible. </brag>

In a sense you are on target, but what you say isnt necessarily true. Most "rips" you find on the net are too compressed and show artifacting. Its very possible to have a "high quality rip" though. MPEG4 provides much better compression than MPEG2, so you can drastically reduce filesize without sacrificing quality.

For instance (and of significance to you) I did a rip of the LOTR extended cut. Instead of spreading over two discs, and having to change it halfway through, its all on one DVD-R, filling up all 4.7GBs. I did an 8 pass re-encode and I guarantee you that it is visually indistinguishable from the DVD itself. Also, I didnt lose surround sound because I just kept the audio track and paired it with the newer, smaller, video.

Just because DVDs use an older, inferior codec for the video doesnt mean you can use a newer codec.