Have you ever wanted to be the next Roger Ebert and critique movies? Not sure if you should get that HD-DVD or Blu-Ray version of your favorite movie? Well look no further as ECGN welcomes you to the movies! Please, no cell phones...
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Re: HD-DVDs hit the magical price point

Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:47 pm

Yes.. I agree w/ having the hard discs/actual DVD's as backup.. I would just store them away after ripping to my external HD, like I do with my music CD's.
As much as I would love to..I am holding off on a movie collection right now until my next computer purchase.. I don't even have a dvd rw drive.

Re: HD-DVDs hit the magical price point

Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:33 pm

microsoft and the porn industry both backed HD DVD... I was always betting on them. Never bet against PORN!!!

Re: HD-DVDs hit the magical price point

Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:16 pm

porn is mainstream on the net now, not on VHS(vs Beta).
People still buy porn movies on VHS or DVD? just look on the net.

Re: HD-DVDs hit the magical price point

Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:28 pm

CodeRed68 wrote:Yes.. I agree w/ having the hard discs/actual DVD's as backup.. I would just store them away after ripping to my external HD, like I do with my music CD's.
As much as I would love to..I am holding off on a movie collection right now until my next computer purchase.. I don't even have a dvd rw drive.


It doesn't take too much horsepower for a basic HTPC, pretty much any PC from the last 4-5 years will do. Add a cheap capture card for maybe 30-50 bucks, and the right software, and you have your own little TIVO/Video on Demand/music server. Most of your DVDs will take up maybe 5-8GBs, or you can convert them all to Divx and save space--personally I think it's wiser to leave them uncompressed and just buy bigger hard drives.

Re: HD-DVDs hit the magical price point

Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:54 pm

bigger HDD FTW, they are dirt cheap!
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