Another Inferior UK Release

[Greengoblin]

If they get rid of the Digital Copies then it should also be cheaper then, you could rip the film you want and then upload it to a dropbox, movies are less then 1gb and you can make them 720p version or just download a rip and then upload it to a dropbox or something and then keep it with you i store mine on my ipad.

[Kingclothier]

Originally Posted by Greengoblin

If they get rid of the Digital Copies then it should also be cheaper then, you could rip the film you want and then upload it to a dropbox, movies are less then 1gb and you can make them 720p version or just download a rip and then upload it to a dropbox or something and then keep it with you i store mine on my ipad.

Yeah but they haven't, or they should make the digital copy available to you at a discounted price because you've brought a actual copy if not for free, I haven't tried that but I can imagine using Dropbox to be as expensive as buying hard drives with the amount of movies I have and not to mention the time it would take me to rip a 50GB bluray to a less than 4GB copy without loosing a ridiculous amount of quality?

[mattyl149]

If you discount the extra features on a disc and all the other language tracks, then it should come to a lot less than 50GB

What I find annoying is when they release a title, then re-release it a few months later and add a UV code. This doesn't necessarily apply to new titles. I'm not going to rebuy a title just to get a UV code. There is an option in the US where if you already own the title, then you can buy a discounted UV copy if one is available. We don't have that in the UK

[Cevolution]

Digital copies are redundant for me. From memory it takes about an hour to rip a blu-ray on my computer (and to convert the file into the appropriate format), it's hardly an inconvenience, when you can simply start it, then go do something else and come back to it . However for titles that come with dvd's you could always just rip those instead, rather than the much large Blu disc files, if you are going to watch them on a laptop, tablet or phone then being blu-ray quality doesn't matter anyway, you are not benefiting from it on devices with small screens.

[Buzz201]

Originally Posted by Cevolution

Digital copies are redundant for me. From memory it takes about an hour to rip a blu-ray on my computer (and to convert the file into the appropriate format), it's hardly an inconvenience, when you can simply start it, then go do something else and come back to it . However for titles that come with dvd's you could always just rip those instead, rather than the much large Blu disc files, if you are going to watch them on a laptop, tablet or phone then being blu-ray quality doesn't matter anyway, you are not benefiting from it on devices with small screens.

An hour? How good is your PC? It takes me over an hour to rip the thing. Never mind convert it...

[Cevolution]

Originally Posted by Buzz201

An hour? How good is your PC? It takes me over an hour to rip the thing. Never mind convert it...

I just realised the way I wrote it made it sound like an hour in total, I meant about an hour for each. It's only an i7 laptop, nothing particularly special. I'm not the one who usually deals with it all, I'm not too fond of computers and avoid using them where I can. My fiancée on the other hand rips and downloads quite a bit of content almost daily, I asked her about it before posting, and that's what she told me.

[Kingclothier]

Originally Posted by Cevolution

I just realised the way I wrote it made it sound like an hour in total, I meant about an hour for each. It's only an i7 laptop, nothing particularly special. I'm not the one who usually deals with it all, I'm not too fond of computers and avoid using them where I can. My fiancée on the other hand rips and downloads quite a bit of content almost daily, I asked her about it before posting, and that's what she told me.

I have a MacBook Pro 2011 and it used to take me about 2 hours to rip a film to about 4GB let alone converting to mp4 or mva, must have a better computer or a better program I used handbrake, and my settings where a decent ratio between file size and quality

[Kingclothier]

Originally Posted by Cevolution

Digital copies are redundant for me. From memory it takes about an hour to rip a blu-ray on my computer (and to convert the file into the appropriate format), it's hardly an inconvenience, when you can simply start it, then go do something else and come back to it . However for titles that come with dvd's you could always just rip those instead, rather than the much large Blu disc files, if you are going to watch them on a laptop, tablet or phone then being blu-ray quality doesn't matter anyway, you are not benefiting from it on devices with small screens.

Also my iPad is retina and to watch SD when I have the potential to watch HD would be criminal, but good suggestion on ripping from the DVD in double plays didn't think about that cheers