How do you like your BD25 Downloads

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Hi this topic is to gather infomation on how people like there BD25 Downloads.

There is so many Bluray rips out there some are full blurays some are full blurays shrunk to bd25 and some are bd50 shrink to bd25 movie only.

So the question is how do you like yours?

My answer would be depending on the film i would aim for best possible Film quality so for example i have a bd50 and the main movie file is 26gb i would ditch the menu and extras and just focus on the film as by the time you have shrunk the whole disk the movie will prob be around 10-15gb which in that case you might as well just get a x264 of it.

Doing a Full BD50 shrink is ok if the disk is say around 30-35gb but any more and you going to be affecting the main movie quality, Its a shame there is no program that can take out extras at the moment as that would be the best option.

So How do you like Yours?
 
Movie. In Best Quality. ............. extra's are expendable........... and only wacko's sit and watch a menu.....
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After messing around for a couple months with high-end video cards, several HD 'players' and such, I broke down and bought a Popcorn Hour (A-110) box.

Best **** $200+ I've spent on video, bar none. Will get the C-200 box in a bit. Meanwhile, my drives are filling up with all kinds of goodies.

Then again, I have a bit shy of 70TB of SD DVD's. It'll take awhile to the HD stuff to get a fair percentage of that, even though I get a ton from broadcast/subscription sources.

Again, a lot of the 'mistakes' (my opinion) I see with the HD/x.264 recodes I saw with SD DVD's some 10 years ago. I'm trying to get a machine (quad-core) set up to do recoding, but the tools are still in the cradle, and my ability to figure out the s/w is not what it was 1o years ago.

But as the example above, there are folks out there 'doing it right' by my estimation, and if the video was 'untouched', it's be even better.

Good (or bad) recent example:

FRINGE, the best new 'network' (US) program this year. As groundbreaking (if not more so) than "Heroes" was 3 years ago. Two x.264 uploads so far (remember, these are ~45min episodes, 20ea. for the season). One was
 
Does it make that much of a difference in image quality though? Between a bd25 rip and something that's been compressed to say, 10GB for just the movie and audio?

Quite honestly I don't see it..
 
akademiks said:
Does it make that much of a difference in image quality though? Between a bd25 rip and something that's been compressed to say, 10GB for just the movie and audio?

Quite honestly I don't see it..
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As to what, either the 720P v. 1080P, or the bit-rate (in my example above, the 720P is at ~5.600mb/s, whereas the 1080P is ~12.1Mb/s.

Depends on the equipment; most 'consumer' HD displays, particularly 'flat' LCD based ones, even with the 'best' you're probably right, very hard to note any difference; the top consumer plasma would give one a better chance. (LCD ~$1K, plasma ~$3K).

I have a broadcast grade 32" CRT HD display, and even though it's not capable (being 'first generation') of 1080P (in fact, not any progressive exceeding 480P), the difference between the same material 720P v. 1080P is pretty striking, even though the actual display is max'ed out at 1080i and both 720P and 1080P are being converted to 1080i (the conversion box/part >$3K).

I've only seen a couple 'flat' plasma displays that come close to it, Pioneer and Panasonic, both exceeding $10K in (2009) price. My 'little' set cost almost double that, in 2001 dollars. That's the price of being an 'early adopter', but also because I've been dealing with digital video (SD and HD) as a broadcast design/engineer since the late 1980's (and analog a good 15 years before that).

I continually A/B recodes vr. the source BR disc, and find that generally, only in the toughest scenes does recodes with over 10Mb/s get into 'trouble'. Of course, I also find that most movies are
 
Beck38 said:
As to what, either the 720P v. 1080P, or the bit-rate (in my example above, the 720P is at ~5.600mb/s, whereas the 1080P is ~12.1Mb/s.

Depends on the equipment; most 'consumer' HD displays, particularly 'flat' LCD based ones, even with the 'best' you're probably right, very hard to note any difference; the top consumer plasma would give one a better chance. (LCD ~$1K, plasma ~$3K).

I have a broadcast grade 32" CRT HD display, and even though it's not capable (being 'first generation') of 1080P (in fact, not any progressive exceeding 480P), the difference between the same material 720P v. 1080P is pretty striking, even though the actual display is max'ed out at 1080i and both 720P and 1080P are being converted to 1080i (the conversion box/part >$3K).

I've only seen a couple 'flat' plasma displays that come close to it, Pioneer and Panasonic, both exceeding $10K in (2009) price. My 'little' set cost almost double that, in 2001 dollars. That's the price of being an 'early adopter', but also because I've been dealing with digital video (SD and HD) as a broadcast design/engineer since the late 1980's (and analog a good 15 years before that).

I continually A/B recodes vr. the source BR disc, and find that generally, only in the toughest scenes does recodes with over 10Mb/s get into 'trouble'. Of course, I also find that most movies are
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