<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:48 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrnosee@gmail.com">jrnosee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="im"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">To archive DVDs may require 3rd party
software to get around the encryption and a more powerful mythtv front end
for playback. <br></font></span></div></div><span><font color="#0000ff"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><br><font color="#000000">Not to mention tons of disk space. I'd love to archive my DVD's but for now I'd be happy to take all my old DivX encoded CD's and get them re-encoded to a newer DivX codec as what I have now won't play on XBox360.</font></font></font></font></span><br>
</blockquote></div><br>Not too bad imho. A 3TB array costs $225 and can hold well over 300 DVDs. And actually, I encode mine into the format used by iPod touch which gets a movie like Lord of the Rings to about 1GB and a full-length animated movie (which would encompass the bulk of my DVD collection) to about 300MB. The quality is good and as an added benefit you don't have to watch trailers or navigate through menus to start watching it. And this format seems to play on everything I own (cell phone, ipod, ubuntu, and any computer w/ quick time).<br clear="all">
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