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I have a rather large collection of movies on DVD and BluRay. I fear that players will eventually go away, as everybody embraces streaming. I want to start ripping my disks, but I have no idea what the best software for doing this is. Any suggestions? I want the best possible image quality, and I want to preserve the audio in its original formats, as well.
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don't want you "copying" anything without their pound of flesh. No matter, there will always be disk players just like there have always been turntables. There are too many disks stacked in cabinets to be ignored by the industry. Like turntables, disk players may go mostly upscale like Pioneers latest consumer player for a kilobuck which has no really special features.
It plays all discs, incl SACDs.
New Panasonics don't.
What Special Features would you want?
I don't suppose CD Companies are any happier about copying than Movie Studios.
My Marantz UD 7007 died, and I haven't replaced it, nor do I expect to.
Streaming is plenty good enough Quality for me!
Quite good, actually.
Oppo was the Holy Grail for features per buck.
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Tin-eared audiofool, lover of large-scale Classical and film music and movies, and amateur fotografer.
William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
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DVDFab HD Decrypter and HandBrake. Once you get the swing of things they are both very easy to use. I suggest you spend a little time on Google and Youtube to learn about these really great tools.
I don't know how old you are, but I suspect you are not going to have difficulty finding a player for many years to come.
Movies take good deal of space, and all electronic media has reliability issues.
If gear availability becomes an issue, there'll be a surge of relatively inexpensive back-up gear and repair services to meet the rising collector demand. Also, folks with large collections will endeavor to stockpile whatever they need for a rainy day. Gear reliability isn't that much of an issue.
Your point about media reliability is a good one, but hasn't become a serious issue. Yes, some poorly produced discs and any that rely on software updates could be at jeopardy, but those are in the vast minority. Some folks still play LDs, even though many were notorious for laser rot over time. 5" discs are another matter. There have been issues with recordable media, but hard pressed discs are less prone to data corruption, even over time.
Most DVDs now have twenty years of popularity as a popular viewing medium and still play fine. Blu-rays don't seem to suffer data corruption issues either, although they're only into their second decade as a popular consumer format. In many ways, these owe a lot to the success of CD longevity. CDs have been manufactured going on 35 years now, and most play as well as the day they were purchased.
I do think ripping copies may be the best way to insure having a playable copies of favorites as back-up for the long haul. Indeed I'd trust a hard drive back-up over streaming services we use for convenience as any content provider can remove, withhold or renegotiate content availability at any time without so much as a "thank you for your support".
Cheers,
AuPh
Interesting, typical Blu-Rays are 30-60GB or 5GB with handbrake.
!,000 movies at 50GB is only 50TB. An 8TB is $100 and would store 160 or 1,600 with handbrake compression.
-Rod
Maintaining all that hardware after, say, 20 years is going to be a nightmare.
There is MUCH less issue with keeping the DVD's and some backup players.
Heck, you can buy a VCR today.
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