Invest in burner? - Blu-ray Forum

whoisquilty · 01-06-2008, 03:00 PM

Given Warner's announcement on Friday, do you all think it's wise to invest in a burner given that things are tipping in Blu Ray's favor?

Concerns are:

1) What if Warner backs out of their commitment? I'm concerned that they have 5 - 6 months to jump ship.

2) I've got it from a reliable source that studios are only investing in the HD formats until the technology for downloads is ready for prime time. Therefore, will we need to burn the downloaded movies to something? Or...can we expect new equipment to play downloaded movies?

Thoughts?

jw · 01-06-2008, 09:01 PM

600.00 for the drive
http://www.shop4tech.com/item5909.html
right now with the 20.00+ burnable media and the BOGO discs as of lately, You do the math?

RV4BLU · 01-06-2008, 09:04 PM

How many people do you know, actually know how to burn movies? Downloading movies isn't the future.. not from the PC/IMAC anyway.

S2K1 · 01-06-2008, 09:19 PM

Here's one for $399.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106037

GreenFlash06 · 01-06-2008, 09:22 PM

Ripping movies lowers the PQ. IMO it looks horrible.

jw · 01-06-2008, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GreenFlash06

Ripping movies lowers the PQ. IMO it looks horrible.

yes it does when you take something intended for 9 gb and compress it to fit a 4.7 gb disc. Anytime you compress the files you are distorting the PQ

dadkins · 01-07-2008, 02:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GreenFlash06

Ripping movies lowers the PQ. IMO it looks horrible.

Ripping nets you an exact copy, shrinking/re-encodeing to a smaller file size loses PQ.

Travis182 · 01-09-2008, 08:03 PM

I can't see myself purchasing a digital copy of a movie. I think most people would like to own a physical copy. Plus, you can't download a movie at this quality very easily. The download times would be horrible.

01-06-2008, 03:00 PM	#1
whoisquilty Member Member since:Aug 2007	Invest in burner? Given Warner's announcement on Friday, do you all think it's wise to invest in a burner given that things are tipping in Blu Ray's favor? Concerns are: 1) What if Warner backs out of their commitment? I'm concerned that they have 5 - 6 months to jump ship. 2) I've got it from a reliable source that studios are only investing in the HD formats until the technology for downloads is ready for prime time. Therefore, will we need to burn the downloaded movies to something? Or...can we expect new equipment to play downloaded movies? Thoughts?

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01-06-2008, 09:01 PM	#2
jw Blu-ray Archduke Top contributor Member since:Apr 2007 Location:USA Trading Score:519	600.00 for the drive http://www.shop4tech.com/item5909.html right now with the 20.00+ burnable media and the BOGO discs as of lately, You do the math?

01-06-2008, 09:04 PM	#3
RV4BLU Member Member since:Jan 2008	How many people do you know, actually know how to burn movies? Downloading movies isn't the future.. not from the PC/IMAC anyway.

01-06-2008, 09:19 PM	#4
S2K1 Member Member since:Dec 2007 Location:SLC, UT	Here's one for $399. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106037

01-06-2008, 09:22 PM	#5
GreenFlash06 Active Member Member since:May 2007 Location:Otisburg Blu-ray collection:12	Ripping movies lowers the PQ. IMO it looks horrible.

01-09-2008, 08:03 PM	#8
Travis182 Junior Member Member since:Jan 2008	I can't see myself purchasing a digital copy of a movie. I think most people would like to own a physical copy. Plus, you can't download a movie at this quality very easily. The download times would be horrible.

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