transfer movies

[fredreed]

Would it be worth the money and time to transfer my movies from dvd over to the blu ray format?

[Branden]

Originally Posted by fredreed

Would it be worth the money and time to transfer my movies from dvd over to the blu ray format?

you can't get HD quality by transfering/converting from a SD source.
not sure i see any advantage of doing this, please explain what you're thinking exactly.

[fredreed]

All my movies that I have are on the regular dvd disc, If I wanted to put them on a blu ray disc they would not get better picture quality than they are right now? I wanted to transfer my movies over to blu ray disc for better picture quality because people that I talked to have said that transferring movies over to blu ray would get a better picture quality.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by fredreed

All my movies that I have are on the regular dvd disc, If I wanted to put them on a blu ray disc they would not get better picture quality than they are right now? I wanted to transfer my movies over to blu ray disc for better picture quality because people that I talked to have said that transferring movies over to blu ray would get a better picture quality.

I doubt it ... its just like making a vcd or something with the movies people take in the theaters its not going to make the quality better since the quality is already bad... now if you know how to encode those movies(and I dont know if you could even do that) to a different format vc-1 exc, it could make a difference

[Branden]

whoever told you that you can get better PQ by transfering them to BD is an idiot. you can't extrapolate 1080p from a 480p source.
an upconverting DVD player is about the best you'll get from a DVD, and even that isn't actually improving the PQ either, its more of a series of filters and algorithms to make pixelation and compression artifacts less noticable on an HDTV. not to mention the hurdles of re-authoring and re-encoding the discs yourself.
you'll have to do what everyone else does: either be happy with DVD PQ or rebuy the movies in HD when available.

[tron3]

Originally Posted by fredreed

Would it be worth the money and time to transfer my movies from dvd over to the blu ray format?

My personal opinion is to remember the old saying, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." This is why we backup our pc data. You DO backup, right?

While you are free to do so, you might want to hold on to your originals as backup. Or, make a double copy of your blu-ray disc for backup. Makes the point of saving space moot to keep the dvd's, but sitting in the garage in a box is still more space than keeping it on shelves in the living room.

A single layer BD is 25GB. DVD's are 4.7 to 8.5 GB. So how many movies will you put on a BD? Does it make THAT much difference? It would be more efficient to toss the cases and put the movies in sleeved books. You won't be able to keep your movies in perfect alphabetical order either. You might buy more DVD movies and the chronological progression of adding movies will put the remainder of your titles out of sequence. You really going to reburn them in order on expensive BD's? Eventually, you will loose track of which disc has a movie. Probably even reburn them twice on new discs and wasting more space.

I worked in IT a long time. My own stupidity cost me years of data on my home system in 2000. Trust me, make backups!

[Uxi]

Good subject. I was interested in moving my LOTR EE DVD's onto a single disc if possible (at least 1 movie per disc, if not for all 3). Same with my Star Wars movies, though I was thinking more to have prequels on one Blu-ray and original trilogy on another. While i want glorious High Definition wherever possible, I can live with good standard def (especially if it's in a widescreen AR).

Is it possible to do this and retain chapter menus, etc? Or would I have to go to generic menus after ripping the title? What about the DTS-ES mix (the only one that matters to me).