hd, nzb site...?
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Guardian Angel ™
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Ok thanks for the info, ill have to check some of this stuff out
imo downloading full blu-ray rips is a bit extreme tho.
firstly, my bandwidth limit would be used up within a few days, and I don't have nearly enough storage space to maintain a decent library
I think for getting full blu-ray quality, using netflix and coping the movies seems like a safer and less complex option
What I do like downloading are 720p encodes, which are only about 2-3gb and look good on a small screen
Unfortunately these are hardly available on usenet. . .
imo downloading full blu-ray rips is a bit extreme tho.
firstly, my bandwidth limit would be used up within a few days, and I don't have nearly enough storage space to maintain a decent library
I think for getting full blu-ray quality, using netflix and coping the movies seems like a safer and less complex option
What I do like downloading are 720p encodes, which are only about 2-3gb and look good on a small screen
Unfortunately these are hardly available on usenet. . .
The Sex Fist
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Full BR are the best, 1080 and 720 rip are bad 
Future Mrs. W
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Full BR are the best, 1080 and 720 rip are bad
Hmm because we all have 45GB spare for a movie?
I hate to do this too you but all do these rips are even worse than scene encodes. The whole point of watching HD is to see the clarity presented in a bluray. When you make an encode you are supposed to keep the source and encode transparent. The scene do a horrible job with this because they have to cut quality because of filesize limitations. Anything that is even less quality than scene which the small 2-3GB encodes are can be considered basically standard def. If you are going to download these files I would suggest just getting the DVDR and having it upscaled.
neverrusty
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th.~ multiforce & dvdspider
Planet earth
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I honestly doubt you'll be able to tell that much difference between a 1080p rip and the original bluray, even on a 42" screen, unless you are sitting a few inches away from it. If you are more than 4-5 feet away it's gonna look the same. I'd even challenge you to get a 720p rip, the 1080p rip and the original BRD and from a distance see if you can really tell the difference.
So the cheaper/easier/more efficient way would really be to
1) Stream it directly from your current PC via hdmi - depending on how your place is set up this may or may not be an option - minimal cost to you, maybe need a new HDD for movie storage.
2) Stream from a new HTPC - Good enough media PCs can be bought for
I have to agree
Go spend a $100 and buy Popcorn hour, or WD My TV or something like that, and just hook that up to your TV with you 720p movies, very good method, of if you have a 360, just use TVersity and stream your 720p movie though that.
Of you can be like me sometimes and just plug you gfx card into your TV, I do that when I want to watch some of my old backup's and can't find my original dvds anyway (normally my buddies got them).
Your security on newsgroups is fine, unless maybe you download like 20 HD movies a day, use SSL, and then if your ISP wants to know, they will have to ask the provider, the provider will give up info, but it's not likely, there looking for people uploading these rips your are getting.
EyeBaller Sorry did not see your above post :lol:
Hell my buddies crappy laptop even has HDMI out.
~~go with the flow~~
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Well you guys are probably right, but it still would be nice to have my own blu-ray library with all the cases and covers:yup:
Anyways its only a matter of time until blu-ray replaces dvds
Anyways its only a matter of time until blu-ray replaces dvds
Dexter Morgan
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720p are easy to find on Usenet
http://www.nzbindex.nl/search/?q=72...ze=&poster=&nfo=&hidespam=0&hidespam=1&more=0
Also most 720p rips are 4GB+, depends if you get them from the scene or a p2p group.
Scene=DVD5
P2P=Generally larger than 4GB
I took a look. Most of these rips are re-encodes from 720p scene rips.
There's enough loss of quality when you rip from the BD to a 4gb 720p rip. There's going to be a significant reduction in quality if you then re-encode it to a lower bitrate.
You may not notice this on your 22" monitor, but I'm sure you will on the 42" screen. I'd stand by my original recommendation of grabbing scene rips at 720p. The extra 1-2gb per move isn't that relevant when HDDs are so cheap now. This way, whatever method you want to use to watch these on the bigger screen you'll have a better quality rip to watch.
I agree with you for the most part, but quality, imo has many different variables. For example, some scene rips often differ based on the encoder and a 10gb rip may look worse than a 8gb rip.
Also, I never planned to view any of my downloads on the 42", I'll wait until I get a bluray player and burner and netflix to enjoy full hd
Furthermore, I will be going off to college next year where I will have a 16" 1080p laptop, so the 3-2gb rips will be pretty much perfect
@hotshot6473, ur right about the loss of quality why would I want to upscale a DVD5orDVD9 DVDR when a 2-3gb bluray rip looks just the same?
Sounds like a jolly good time :cheers:
McIntyre2K7
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SolidStateLogic
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Guess I fail at sarcasm . . . oh well
I can even tell where the links to download are on that site:idunno:
Well the thing is I know some really good places to get some amazing 2-3gb 720p encodes through direct download . . . so i meant quality 720p encodes in relatively small size are hard to find on usenet
and if im gonna download 4gb+ i might as well go all the way for 1080p
1080p rips usually run around 7-8gb+++. I would say if you're gonna get p2p 2-3gb, go all the way for a scene 4gb rip, not *another* 4gb for a 1080p.
Piggaletto
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i just registered at www.hd4you.net
They've got a lot of HD movies and series.
They also got full blu-ray disks.
So check it out !
They've got a lot of HD movies and series.
They also got full blu-ray disks.
So check it out !
Damn I can't register there. I keep getting this error.
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I tried different ways for the 6 digit image and no dice. I'm looking for a usenet forum actually. One that discusses releases so we know which HD releases are better quality and perhaps one that has a group that uploads HD content to usenet. Something live www.vcdquality.com would be sweet. If they make their own releases even better since I have tried several scene groups and well I have seen better HD releases done by your average joe.