I've ripped a good 100 of them. The video/audio average around 39GB-45GB for the main feature with only English audio. No, I haven't mastered a Blu-Ray personally, but that's only because the software costs so much.
If you're going to disagree, at least offer a counterpoint.
How is your PS3 hooked to the receiver? Is it playing true 5.1? Best test is to answer these two questions?
1) Is dialogue generally only coming from the center channel? It's supposed to be that way. 2) Are your rear speakers usually quiet except for special effects? It's supposed to be that way. 3) Does your receiver display a Dolby logo when audio is playing?
If you get any other result, then either your receiver's settings or your method of connection are wrong.
Because at that distance, your eyes can't resolve 4K. 350ppi is about the limit for holding a phone inches from your face. At 3+ meters, a 49" TV is going to be about the equivalent of a 3 inch phone screen.
having people hand review the result of the transcode for video quality issues
I can assure you they don't do that. I watched through Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix recently (for the first time). There are bad spots on the Beta master tapes they were transferring from and the picture actually goes blue for brief moments (as you'd see on some VCRs when there's no usable signal).
Haven't been to Dollar General lately, have you? They've been selling off the majority of their DVDs and not replacing damaged ones. I have movies that have been on my queue for years that are now (permanently) unavailable. I had a big backlog and now I don't really have a way to watch them - they're certainly not available for streaming. And they already put rental stores out of business. I would literally have to buy some of these movies to watch them.
It does subtitles really well. Though I keep it in an MKV container and preserve the subtitles form the disc in their original encoding.
It does add chapter markers, but since the disc doesn't have labels for those chapters, it may or may not be that useful to you.
Don't de-interlace your video when ripping. You're effectively cutting your resolution in half. Better to play back on 60fps capable hardware and have your playback de-interlace at 60fps. It will display each half consecutively, interpolating the missing lines. See yadif 2x in VLC, for an example.
Re-compressing BD kind of defeats the whole point of bothering with BD. Plus you magnify the aforementioned decode support issues.
I disagree there. They have 50GB to fill and they're going to use as much as they can and likely CBR. If you use Handbrake with CRF at 18 or so, you're not going to see a difference, and you're going to save a bit on hardware if you have a large collection to rip.
But when ripping TV content where several episodes are crammed onto one disc, compare the output to the original. You may have made a larger file.
As for DTS-MA, you could probably extract DTS core and still have way better than DVD audio. For no explainable reason, I preserve the full DTS-MA.
I think that some organizations must have been really mad, considering some of the pedantic (emphasis mine) things addressed by this document:
The Aviators Model Code of Conduct Initiative stated that this definition and the definition of small unmanned aircraft may permit infant passengers and asked the FAA to amend the definition to categorically prohibit the carriage of passengers on an unmanned aircraft.
That goes back to my original point that I posted way above - Bitcoin is fiat currency. Just because it's not a government, it's still people assigning it value.
Whether gold is also fiat currency is another argument altogether.
Likewise, since people don't generally accept gold bullion in stores or online, it is roughly worthless to me for the purpose of paying my bills.
Likewise, people don't generally accept bitcoin for payment except via a processor who converts it to USD.
Gold flecks can be melted in with larger masses of gold and you can do the same with those flecks as you can with a larger mass. It has industrial, medical, and aesthetic purposes. Its value is due to being what it is.
You have to set up your firewall to have an inbound HTTP port too. The dummy-proof way is to go the Nest route - which is a method I hate - and that's outbound connections only and everything is managed by a central server. It means your device is dead when/if the company goes under.
Unless people want BTC, it has no value. A blockchain doesn't have any intrinsic value or any practical use outside of being a currency. You can't make a watch with it, or plate conductors with it. It's a different type of fiat currency (tautologically instead of government backed), but it's still fiat.
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I've ripped a good 100 of them. The video/audio average around 39GB-45GB for the main feature with only English audio. No, I haven't mastered a Blu-Ray personally, but that's only because the software costs so much.
If you're going to disagree, at least offer a counterpoint.
Have you calibrated your TV with a test pattern and a blue filter? Don't blame Netflix.
How is your PS3 hooked to the receiver? Is it playing true 5.1? Best test is to answer these two questions?
1) Is dialogue generally only coming from the center channel? It's supposed to be that way.
2) Are your rear speakers usually quiet except for special effects? It's supposed to be that way.
3) Does your receiver display a Dolby logo when audio is playing?
If you get any other result, then either your receiver's settings or your method of connection are wrong.
My bandwidth is mine - don't start giving it away.
The pipes are plenty big. They just weren't paying for transit with the peers that had the content.
Because at that distance, your eyes can't resolve 4K. 350ppi is about the limit for holding a phone inches from your face. At 3+ meters, a 49" TV is going to be about the equivalent of a 3 inch phone screen.
They're probably switching to VBR. And trying to make it sound like they are doing something new so it isn't obvious how behind they are.
An HD antenna can usually beat
Will always beat. It's re-compressed from what the cable company gets over antenna. You can't bring picture quality back by re-encoding.
having people hand review the result of the transcode for video quality issues
I can assure you they don't do that. I watched through Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix recently (for the first time). There are bad spots on the Beta master tapes they were transferring from and the picture actually goes blue for brief moments (as you'd see on some VCRs when there's no usable signal).
Haven't been to Dollar General lately, have you? They've been selling off the majority of their DVDs and not replacing damaged ones. I have movies that have been on my queue for years that are now (permanently) unavailable. I had a big backlog and now I don't really have a way to watch them - they're certainly not available for streaming. And they already put rental stores out of business. I would literally have to buy some of these movies to watch them.
It does subtitles really well. Though I keep it in an MKV container and preserve the subtitles form the disc in their original encoding.
It does add chapter markers, but since the disc doesn't have labels for those chapters, it may or may not be that useful to you.
Don't de-interlace your video when ripping. You're effectively cutting your resolution in half. Better to play back on 60fps capable hardware and have your playback de-interlace at 60fps. It will display each half consecutively, interpolating the missing lines. See yadif 2x in VLC, for an example.
Re-compressing BD kind of defeats the whole point of bothering with BD. Plus you magnify the aforementioned decode support issues.
I disagree there. They have 50GB to fill and they're going to use as much as they can and likely CBR. If you use Handbrake with CRF at 18 or so, you're not going to see a difference, and you're going to save a bit on hardware if you have a large collection to rip.
But when ripping TV content where several episodes are crammed onto one disc, compare the output to the original. You may have made a larger file.
As for DTS-MA, you could probably extract DTS core and still have way better than DVD audio. For no explainable reason, I preserve the full DTS-MA.
I think that some organizations must have been really mad, considering some of the pedantic (emphasis mine) things addressed by this document:
The Aviators Model Code of Conduct Initiative stated that this
definition and the definition of small unmanned aircraft may permit infant passengers and asked
the FAA to amend the definition to categorically prohibit the carriage of passengers on an
unmanned aircraft.
This was my first thought (except for the Doctor part).
This applies equally to Bitcoin and USD.
That goes back to my original point that I posted way above - Bitcoin is fiat currency. Just because it's not a government, it's still people assigning it value.
Whether gold is also fiat currency is another argument altogether.
Likewise, since people don't generally accept gold bullion in stores or online, it is roughly worthless to me for the purpose of paying my bills.
Likewise, people don't generally accept bitcoin for payment except via a processor who converts it to USD.
If you're going to use a flat file for simple data storage, it might as well be structured.
With satire, that's the goal.
Clearly he's talking about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants to provide libraries with Internet access.
Not the same thing. If your camera emailed those photos directly to the police on your behalf, that would be something closer to compare with.
Gold flecks can be melted in with larger masses of gold and you can do the same with those flecks as you can with a larger mass. It has industrial, medical, and aesthetic purposes. Its value is due to being what it is.
What gives Bitcoin its value? Let's start there.
Rather than government regulation, this one's value is determined by mathematical rules.
Symbolic or representational is the dollar bill when it was gold-backed.
You have to set up your firewall to have an inbound HTTP port too. The dummy-proof way is to go the Nest route - which is a method I hate - and that's outbound connections only and everything is managed by a central server. It means your device is dead when/if the company goes under.
Note how I said it's tautologically fiat. Bitcoin declares that Bitcoin has value.
If it has no intrinsic value, it is fiat.
GATTACA (not Gattica). The name of the movie is composed entirely out of nucleotide symbols.
Unless people want BTC, it has no value. A blockchain doesn't have any intrinsic value or any practical use outside of being a currency. You can't make a watch with it, or plate conductors with it. It's a different type of fiat currency (tautologically instead of government backed), but it's still fiat.