BLU-RAY and Home Media Centers: How do they work ?

[bkfountain]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

I was reading this article yesterday about WD's 10TB hard drive and saw that someone made a comment that 10TB was huge and implied no one would need one other than for video editing. What amazed me is that they stated they had 600 movies, 5000 episodes, photos, and music on a 2.5TB HDD. In order to get all of that on a 2.5TB drive those files must look like shit.

600 movies would average out to ~4GB per movie (DVD quality or lower) on a 2.5TB HDD without taking into account the 5000 episodes and photos and music. I can't imagine what the average file size would be with the episodes factored in.

http://gizmodo.com/sadly-this-10tb-h...not-1691245306

i ripped my dvd collection to a HDD before getting into bluray and would easily get mkv movies at like 800MB-1GB, tv shows at 500MB.

havent started ripping blurays yet though.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by bkfountain

i ripped my dvd collection to a HDD before getting into bluray and would easily get mkv movies at like 800MB-1GB, tv shows at 500MB.

havent started ripping blurays yet though.

Even if we were to assume the episodes were 500MB each 5,000 of them is right at 2.5TB. Obviously converting them to H.264 would account for some of the file size reduction but even then I can't see how all of that material can fit on a 2.5TB HDD without sacrificing quality. Not to mention DVD quality is no longer the best quality any more so I couldn't fathom reducing it any further.