Originally posted by Estuansis:

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LOL Cloud storage. Stupidity made simple. Luckily for me my iPad 2 is jailbroken and will not be seeing any apple official updates :P

Need I remind anyone of the Apple camera driver debacle? Basically the jailbroken camera drivers are triple the quality. Apple literally nerfs their own camera app...

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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I really don't do any media burning as my entire entertainment setup is running through the HDMI to my TV. Who needs an expensive BluRay player or PS3 when you can do the same thing without discs at all?

I'm going for reliability first, simplicity second. Obviously running RAID 1 adds to the complication but what doesn't these days. I'm probably happier in the long run throwing caution to the wind and using single drives for my storage.

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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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I really don't do any media burning as my entire entertainment setup is running through the HDMI to my TV. Who needs an expensive BluRay player or PS3 when you can do the same thing without discs at all?

I'm going for reliability first, simplicity second. Obviously running RAID 1 adds to the complication but what doesn't these days. I'm probably happier in the long run throwing caution to the wind and using single drives for my storage.

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Then you must be burning discs because if reliability is FIRST then optical media would be your choice!

Blu-ray players are cheap and media isn't bad either and if you are smart it doesn't take a lot of space to save backups either, like Sam and Creaky might want you to believe.

If simplicity and laziness is first than hard drives are the way to go however borrowing your movies to someone else or just bringing a movie to a friends becomes problematic. I like using both which provides me the best of both worlds and backups are not a problem because I buy my movies and back them up as I go, not a major pain.

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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how's the sound quality?

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Originally posted by creaky:

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Each to their own Steve :), i spent years encoding, transcoding, burning, storing and whatnot re optical media, i eventually switched to both optical and hard drive copies, however that quickly became far too impractical.

That's basically why i switched to hard drives. Numerous people can access and watch whatever they want, simultaneously from one central media server, we use PC's and xboxes to access everything. No looking for anything, all just instantly accessible. Lazy if you will :)

And i still haven't got all the stuff i want to keep, off (i kid you not) ludicrous amounts of optical media yet - it takes too long, it's a pain, and the latest delay is the current Thai floods affecting the hard drive manufacturers/related component manufacturers, i simply can't afford any more drives!.

It's always Deja Vu in this thread on this subject i see :) :)

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Originally posted by creaky:

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Each to their own Steve :), i spent years encoding, transcoding, burning, storing and whatnot re optical media, i eventually switched to both optical and hard drive copies, however that quickly became far too impractical.

That's basically why i switched to hard drives. Numerous people can access and watch whatever they want, simultaneously from one central media server, we use PC's and xboxes to access everything. No looking for anything, all just instantly accessible. Lazy if you will :)

And i still haven't got all the stuff i want to keep, off (i kid you not) ludicrous amounts of optical media yet - it takes too long, it's a pain, and the latest delay is the current Thai floods affecting the hard drive manufacturers/related component manufacturers, i simply can't afford any more drives!.

It's always Deja Vu in this thread on this subject i see :) :)

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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:

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Originally posted by creaky:

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Each to their own Steve :), i spent years encoding, transcoding, burning, storing and whatnot re optical media, i eventually switched to both optical and hard drive copies, however that quickly became far too impractical.

That's basically why i switched to hard drives. Numerous people can access and watch whatever they want, simultaneously from one central media server, we use PC's and xboxes to access everything. No looking for anything, all just instantly accessible. Lazy if you will :)

And i still haven't got all the stuff i want to keep, off (i kid you not) ludicrous amounts of optical media yet - it takes too long, it's a pain, and the latest delay is the current Thai floods affecting the hard drive manufacturers/related component manufacturers, i simply can't afford any more drives!.

It's always Deja Vu in this thread on this subject i see :) :)

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Then you are doing something wrong as I too have tons of DVD's and BD's and it is not a pain, but then I keep organized. Hands done it is the safest way to go but like I said I use HDD's too but just not too safe to rely on ONLY even if you put a HDD away as backup one problem inserting it into your system and woo-la everything is gone.

Stevo :)

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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how's the sound quality?

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Almost universally, the sound in 1080p rips is 5.1 3-channel 1536kbps AC3. (512kbps per channel). Sounds good enough to me - ever considered a 512kbps MP3 inadequate?

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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how's the sound quality?

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Almost universally, the sound in 1080p rips is 5.1 3-channel 1536kbps AC3. (512kbps per channel). Sounds good enough to me - ever considered a 512kbps MP3 inadequate?

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even the 5/6gb 1080p rips?

tbh I onky have 320kbs mp3, not heard a 512kbs one, but 256 to me is the bare minimum I want to listen to

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Originally posted by creaky:

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I'll have to find out how this affects our parent company, it probably doesn't though; let's just say they're large enough that they can get manufacturers to put aside ludicrous amounts of laptops and desktops, and be supplied long after those models are superceded, to allow them to image machines en masse; this allows them to only have to maintain a tiny amount of images. Our company however are still buying machines adhoc for now, so i guess prices will creep up a little while we still buy that way.

Steve - don't you get tired of telling people they're wrong ?, it's getting a little old already :). Plus you're underestimating how organised i am, and how long. But i'm not the one arguing!, i'm quite happy that others do things differently to me.

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