I'm kind of warming up to the new format, the Ustream part is working better and better and Richard is a great addition to the ramblings of Ben and Steve :)
I just have to put my two cents in (or "ören" as I am Swedish and don't use cents) the BluRay/Streaming discussion. I rip my BDs with AnyDVD HD and then remux them to MKV with the original videostream and the AC3 track. This way the quality is preserved and I don't have to listen to my PS3 taking off or go through the hassle of loading up a BD disc on the HTPC. Plus, it sits there in my library just a click away from me at all times.
Ok, some of the files tend to be a little big, Fifth Element landed on 26 gigs but hey, I have to use that WHS storage for something right?
Point is, a title like 300 is encoded at 16.1 Mbps and the audiotrack at 640 kbps. Do you really think that most of us won't be able to stream that in a couple of years? I've got a 100 mbit connection right now, and I would gladly use that bandwidth to download BD quality movies if someone would just let me.. legally.
I'd give you that LPCM is takin up a sh*t load of space but I dare you to find a living room where the acoustic response alters the audio quality less than the difference between EAC3 and LPCM..
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I'm kind of warming up to the new format, the Ustream part is working better and better and Richard is a great addition to the ramblings of Ben and Steve :)
I just have to put my two cents in (or "ören" as I am Swedish and don't use cents) the BluRay/Streaming discussion. I rip my BDs with AnyDVD HD and then remux them to MKV with the original videostream and the AC3 track. This way the quality is preserved and I don't have to listen to my PS3 taking off or go through the hassle of loading up a BD disc on the HTPC. Plus, it sits there in my library just a click away from me at all times.
Ok, some of the files tend to be a little big, Fifth Element landed on 26 gigs but hey, I have to use that WHS storage for something right?
Point is, a title like 300 is encoded at 16.1 Mbps and the audiotrack at 640 kbps. Do you really think that most of us won't be able to stream that in a couple of years? I've got a 100 mbit connection right now, and I would gladly use that bandwidth to download BD quality movies if someone would just let me.. legally.
I'd give you that LPCM is takin up a sh*t load of space but I dare you to find a living room where the acoustic response alters the audio quality less than the difference between EAC3 and LPCM..
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