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[CompTIA_Rep]

Whatever... I give HD-DVD and Blu-Ray a month or 2 before "DVD Jon" cracks 'em! 😉

are you aware that the $750 blueray player for your PC doesnt play video disks?

 

[dean7]

are you aware that the $750 blueray player for your PC doesnt play video disks?

Uhm... what do you mean? I think you are wrong about that. If the Blu-Ray player for PC doesn't play video discs wouldn't it be useless? Check this BD player out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131034

And read reviews about it where people are talking about playing Blu-Ray videos on their PCs. You can even get a patch for PowerDVD player to play them. Still maintaining your earlier statement? 😀

Go back to what you do best... eating Micky D's and gettin' sick 😛.

 

[dean7]

Well for the time being, I belive HI-Def is a great way to copy protect movies. Who wants to download a 40gig movie?

But what if you took that and ripped it to DivX or WMV9 HD?

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Or just got the non-blueray version. My point is that you wont want to copy a blue ray dvd and preserve the quality because the space requirements are too high at this time.

 

[dean7]

In WMV HD for 1080P (which is BluRay quality) you are probably looking at 8400 MB per 2 hours of movie. How do I figure? Check this out:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

Example: Coral Reef Adventure (IMAX)
Time: 1:45 min
Size for 1080P: 105 MB
Time for 2 hours of playback: ~8,400 MB (105 MB x 80 = 8,400 MB. 1:45 min x 80 = 140 min)

When DivX first came out I remember when videos were like 2GB a video I freaked out. Now, 2GB doesn't sound that bad. With 750GB HDDs you could store around 91 1080P videos per HDD. That's not incredibly bad. Know what I mean? 😀

Anyway, I agree with you in a sense. For most practical use, you won't want to preserve the quality of Blu Ray.

 

[dean7]

Oh, and my other point is that you were spouting off about not being able to play video on Blu Ray drives on your PC, which was just plain wrong.

(BTW, I don't want to start a flame war because you're OK, I'm just trying to point out the facts. And I don't support blu ray at all and think HD-DVD is the way to go myself. Mostly because Sony has been pissing me off lately.)

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Fine... then that works for NetFix ripping, but not for downloading. 8gigs still takes a while to download, even if you get 100 peers.

 

[dean7]

Agreed. 😀

 

[kaotao]

Totally, and officially re-hijacked.

 

[dean7]

Totally, and officially re-hijacked.

*Whew*. That was a close call!

 

[kaotao]

Had ME worried.

 

[pauldh]

Had ME worried.

I'm back. :idea:

 

[kaotao]

Don't "Mater" ta me. I enjoy talking about computers and vaccums... :roll: :lol:

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

its vacuumes not vaccums.

and kaotao, dont ever say ME in these forums. We never want to go back to windows ME ever ever again.

 

[dean7]

its vacuumes not vaccums.

and kaotao, dont ever say ME in these forums. We never want to go back to windows ME ever ever again.

OK...

A: I can't believe you're criticizing somebody for spelling. Spelling errors run rampant in these forums all the time! People can't even spell the word "the" half of the time, and you're knocking kaotao for "vacuumes"? Haha.

B: Your tech joke was really stretching it... 😛

 

[dean7]

Hey Paul, welcome back... not much going on here unfortunately... got any good thread-jacking material? 😉

 

[pauldh]

It's nice to see you guys solved the OP's problem so he is asking the mods to lock this. It took 6 pages, but well done guys. :lol:

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

its vacuumes not vaccums.

and kaotao, dont ever say ME in these forums. We never want to go back to windows ME ever ever again.

the correct spelling is vacuum. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/vacuum

No kidding.

And I wasnt stretching the ME thing... and only picked on your spelling cause you mentioned windows ME.

 

[Fatty_1179]

Guys,

I got to hand it to you, seven pages of ROFL good humor.

You guys are Gods

8O 8) :lol:

 

[kaotao]

I'm kinda suprised it lasted this long.

It may have lasted longer than the OP's several perfectly OC GPUs.. 8O :lol:

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

I want to heal my overclocked GPU. Anyone have neil sporing and a band ade?

 

[kaotao]

I want to heal my overclocked GPU. Anyone have neil sporing and a band ade?

I do know who neil sporing is, but aren't band aids really just roadies that help musicians on tour... :roll:

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

triple antibiotic Neil Sporing, and Band of Aids. Heal my OC GFX NOW 😀 😀 😀

 

[kaotao]

Oh, I thought Neil Sporing lived in the OC.

 

[pauldh]

:lol: Neil Sporing and Band Ades ....this thread is still downright funny.