Oh noes teh sky is falling!

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Eny-

Seeing that I have around 1500 discs, it still comes short

I have backed up my favorites and the rest of my collection through the beginning of the Fs. I need about 3 to 4 more 8 TB drives. I will eventually get them over the next few years. If I am ever able to back up UHD titles I will do that once I have a UHD PC drive and the proper software. Unfortunately, neither one exists as of yet.

[bigshot]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

I want to backup my collection someday, but not until it's affordable to rip everything at full quality and have redundant drives for everything. Maybe in 2030.

I must be living in the future, because I'm doing that today.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by bigshot

I must be living in the future, because I'm doing that today.

Key word being affordable. A 4TB drive costs around $120-$140 give or take. Yes, I know you can buy larger drives too. Blu-rays are anywhere from 20GB - 50GB in size. Now you want to keep a duplicate of each rip so you need double the drives. For every movie you rip you need to clone it on anther drive in case of drive failure. That's a ton of money on hard drives (not to mention how many hard drive racks you will need to hold all those drives). Some people in here have hundreds and hundreds of discs. Sure, you can do that now. If you have thousands of dollars to spend on duplicate drives. Even I take risks with some of my data because I just don't have the money to have twice the amount of drives for everything. I try to keep the most important stuff backed up but really movies take up a ton of space on a hard drive - they add up fast as you know.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by bigshot

I must be living in the future, because I'm doing that today.

Same here. I tell most movie nuts, like myself, how to do it and they just look at me like I am crazy.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Key word being affordable. A 4TB drive costs around $120-$140 give or take. Yes, I know you can buy larger drives too. Blu-rays are anywhere from 20GB - 50GB in size. Now you want to keep a duplicate of each rip so you need double the drives. For every movie you rip you need to clone it on anther drive in case of drive failure. That's a ton of money on hard drives (not to mention how many hard drive racks you will need to hold all those drives). Some people in here have hundreds and hundreds of discs. Sure, you can do that now. If you have thousands of dollars to spend on duplicate drives. Even I take risks with some of my data because I just don't have the money to have twice the amount of drives for everything. I try to keep the most important stuff backed up but really movies take up a ton of space on a hard drive - they add up fast as you know.

In my case the disc serves as the backup of the digital backup. If you do it that way then you don't have to back up every BD twice.

[mredman]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Just FYI...from 1/1/2016 to 9/24/2016 Blu-ray sales revenue is up 9.1% over 2015 .

*Credit bruceames for compiling the weekly sales data .

BLU-RAY is UP. People want stuff they can hold in their hand not smoke that can disappear

[BoogalooShrimp]

I would need around 18 tb to store my collection. The cost, both in time and money, doesn't make it worth it to me. If i could i would pay someone to rip my current collection and then rip blu rays as i purchased them. It's that initial 400+ rips that turn me off.

[emmet otter]

I rip only the movie files with makemkv along with the one audio track I need. The extras I encode @ 720. Who needs HD on a guy sitting there telling you about a movie? Its all good enough for me.

[HD Goofnut]

I just did some measurements and found the following:

A typical 1920 x 1080 .m2ts file with lossless audio for a 2 hour movie runs ~34 GBs. This means that 1 hour runs ~17 GBs. So, this means that 1 minute is 28 MB. With this formula I can figure out how many more hard drives I need. The rest of you here can also figure out how many hard drives you would need to back up your collection.

[Groot]

Originally Posted by mredman

as you can see nightopian is speaking complete nonsense as usual

BLU-RAY is UP. People want stuff they can hold in their hand not smoke that can disappear

Well, "technically" they are only up because of The Force Awakens, Deadpool and early 2016 sales of Jurassic World. (All 3 are in the top sold blu-rays ever list) True, the format isn't dying...but stuff like TFA helps boost sales that normally do not occur.

[eiknarf]

Originally Posted by Groot

Well, "technically" they are only up because of The Force Awakens, Deadpool and early 2016 sales of Jurassic World. (All 3 are in the top sold blu-rays ever list) True, the format isn't dying...but stuff like TFA helps boost sales that normally do not occur.

So was this a better year for movie releases?

[Groot]

Originally Posted by eiknarf

So was this a better year for movie releases?

Not really. The major sales are (so far) from 2015 releases. TFA pushed (according to the-numbers) $135 million in sales of blu's through April-June. It was outselling all other movies 10-1 for a time. If you take that film away, Blu sells would be around the same as last year. I think that's what you mean anyway.

[Zen_Amako]

I ripped my favorite movies and my hard to find/OOP titles to an external 5TB hard drive recently. I only ripped the films themselves--not all of the bonus features--and I found that some of the movie files are actually relatively small. You can use handbrake to further compress the files if you don't need a full quality backup of a particular movie. I managed to fit just over 200 titles on a 5TB at full quality, although a few of them were DVDs.

[HD Goofnut]

So, the formula is your number of minutes times 28 divided by 100. Here's an example for a 110 minute film:

110 x 28 / 100 = 30.8 GBs

This formula will tell you how much space a 1920 x 1080 film takes up without having to run a BDInfo scan. It should be accurate to within a couple tenths of a GB.

[HD Goofnut]

So, after some addition I figured that I need 19.2 TBs to back up the rest of my collection. By the time I do that I will have used about 36.9 TBs total. Well, I have used 17.7 TBs so far so I am almost halfway there.

[Hellraiserfan]

Originally Posted by Zen_Amako

I ripped my favorite movies and my hard to find/OOP titles to an external 5TB hard drive recently. I only ripped the films themselves--not all of the bonus features--and I found that some of the movie files are actually relatively small. You can use handbrake to further compress the files if you don't need a full quality backup of a particular movie. I managed to fit just over 200 titles on a 5TB at full quality, although a few of them were DVDs.

I seriously need to do this at some point. Need to get a drive on my computer that can run Blus and not just DVDs first though.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Hellraiserfan

I seriously need to do this at some point. Need to get a drive on my computer that can run Blus and not just DVDs first though.

If you just need a BD-ROM and not a BD-RW I suggest this one: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Inte.../dp/B007581HB6

I have had this ASUS drive since 2009 and it has played everything I have ever thrown at it: https://www.amazon.com/6xBlu-Ray-Com.../dp/B003A7X7WI

[rexcrk]

Originally Posted by Hellraiserfan

I seriously need to do this at some point. Need to get a drive on my computer that can run Blus and not just DVDs first though.

I've been thinking about doing this too. Only for stuff I own of course, I do have a few rare out of print discs that would be a ***** to replace lol.

[emmet otter]

Although I rip and store only the title movie and single audio track using Makemkv, you would be surprised at how good even an encode looks using Vidcoder @ roughly 3-4 gigs an hour. I really have to peek closely at my 125" projector to notice a very, VERY slight difference in PQ when encoded. Almost no difference at all.

[eiknarf]

What's the best way to rip my own (old band) DVD? (there's no stealing going on here)