dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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| Yep!
But people are forgetting, unless you do some wild compression, no one is going to want to upload(several times?) 19~50GB per BD!
Hell! I dread even thinking about DOWNLOADING those kind of file sizes! Uploading? Not likely!
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TigerNutz
Laissez les bons temps rouler
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join:2000-12-23
Little Rock, AR | yeah?
I'm sure the same thing was said about a 10mb file in 1997...... |
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX | Actually no. Most dialup services can grab that size of a file in less than an hour (give or take). Now a 100+MB file size however... |
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Goober
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
| reply to dadkins
said by dadkins  :But people are forgetting, unless you do some wild compression, no one is going to want to upload(several times?) 19~50GB per BD! Hell! I dread even thinking about DOWNLOADING those kind of file sizes! Uploading? Not likely! No kidding! People should just pony up the few bucks for the DVDs. |
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Topmounter
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join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO | reply to TigerNutz
Call me in 9 years then  |
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dr3yec
join:2002-12-19
00000 | reply to dadkins
x264 is that compression. If you ask me it looks dam good to. |
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Subaru
1-3-2-4
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Greenwich, CT
clubs:  | At less Bit rate as well! |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| reply to Goober
said by Goober :said by dadkins :But people are forgetting, unless you do some wild compression, no one is going to want to upload(several times?) 19~50GB per BD! Hell! I dread even thinking about DOWNLOADING those kind of file sizes! Uploading? Not likely! No kidding! People should just pony up the few bucks for the DVDs. $24.99 - $29.99 each is acceptable for a BD movie.
Hell! Netlix has some BD titles.
Blanks sure need to come down in price though.
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | reply to Subaru
Playback of some BD movies hits 40mbps.
Any compression is going to trash picture quality and or cause artifacting.
Uhm, no thanks!
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Goober
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
| reply to dadkins
said by dadkins :Blanks sure need to come down in price though. True. But, media prices seem to fall fairly quickly nowadays. I can remember not too long ago when you could hardly even find DL media and even if you could, it was $5-7-10 per disk. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | BD SL blanks are $17.99 ea.
BD RE(RW) are as high as $79(DL @ 50GB)! 
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c0de
join:2004-10-14
Richmond, VA
| reply to dadkins
I would think it would take (over bittorrent) just as much time to download a BD as it would to have one delivered from Netflix.
Also, you can't burn a HD/BD & the cost/trouble of having a PC setup with 1080P output to a 1080p TV is gonna be little high right now.
Seems like too much trouble right now, espically if i can't pop the disc into a BD/HD player after I download it. Not to mention the cost of the players.
I'll stick with my good ole DVD till the format wars are settled.
Hell I don't even bother downloading regular DVDs right now. But maybe if I give up my job/life I would have time to do all that. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| Some of us *CAN* burn BD!
Whether or not a ripped then burned BD will play has yet to be seen.
As for connecting to a TV, this laptop has a HDMI port(came with the cable and a HDMI to DVI adapter too).
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Goober
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL
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| reply to dadkins
said by dadkins :BD SL blanks are $17.99 ea. BD RE(RW) are as high as $79(DL @ 50GB)! Holy crap. I knew about the SL prices. But DL at $79?!?! |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| The BD RE(rewritables) in DL are a wallet killer!
But you can cram alot of data on a single disc!
The "Single Write" DLs aren't that expensive... but they aint cheap either.
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to Goober
said by Goober :said by dadkins :BD SL blanks are $17.99 ea. BD RE(RW) are as high as $79(DL @ 50GB)! Holy crap. I knew about the SL prices. But DL at $79?!?! you could buy a >50gb hard drive for 79 bucks!
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
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| reply to c0de
Actually, if you have a fast enough connection (5-6 Mb/s
or greater), which many people do, a DVD can be downloaded
in 2 hours or less. Assuming of course you have a fast
source like a Usenet provider.
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
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join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | reply to dadkins
My guess is that most of the ripped movies would be turned into an .avi and compressed to a below DVD quality picture. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| reply to Doctor Four
A DVD perhaps, a Blu-ray DVD?
Superman Returns is right at 50GB.
Can you download 50GB in 2 hours?
At ~8mbps(say 1MB/sec), I can pull 3600MB in an hour.
3600MB is ~3.6GB(per hour), so in 10 hours I can download 36GB... nice, but not quite feasable for BD.
I'll go buy the damn thing!
Ok someone else do the upload math. Even if you have 2mbps upload, are you going to want to upload something like this?
How about uploading it several times/seeding it. Not me!
Especially since I have Comcast(@ 768k Upstream).
Screw that! 
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Camelot One
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Sarasota, FL
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| reply to dvd536
said by dvd536 :said by Goober :said by dadkins :BD SL blanks are $17.99 ea. BD RE(RW) are as high as $79(DL @ 50GB)! Holy crap. I knew about the SL prices. But DL at $79?!?! you could buy a >50gb hard drive for 79 bucks! I've been buying 80Gb SATA 3.0Gbp/s drives for $39! And I guarantee the read/write time is better
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