250GB hardrive add on announced for the 360
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I meant Bluray movies.
Lol okay gotcya. I do 8-10 gig rips of my blurays. Dvds are around 2 gigs for me. I love it , I'm almost done ripping my dvd collection (1,213 dvds all legaly bought) I have about 300 left to rip. I have two 2tb hardrives for it. We stream them all over the house.
I'm still wreslting with the idea of selling them to a fye or something , packing them up and storing them or just donating them. retty sure only storing them in the basement is legal.
Maybe I'm mistaken...but if you rip all those movies, and then sell them / get rid of them, doesn't that then make your ripped copies illegal? Just saying...
Also, if you're ripping your Blu-Rays and they're only 10GB's of data, you're losing a lot of quality, especially in the audio department. Lastly, 1,213DVDs @ 2Gb a piece is roughly 2,426GB of data, well over 2Tb, not including your Blu-Rays. Maybe I'm being off topic, I just don't buy that you rip each and every movie you own just to stream it. Seems pointless and time consuming.
Yea it will be over 2TB . Like I said I have 2 2TB drives. Its all in my post you quote. Its not time consuming at all. I set it up to rip movies when i'm reading a book or watching tv or playing on my 360. Even when I'm asleep. The actual time consumption for me is very little. A min or two a disc . Sure pc time is more , but its not a big deal. Cost is not a big deal either. 2TB drives are dirt cheap. I bought mine for about $170 each.
The real benfit for me is that I don't really have to store them on location. As I said in my post the only legl option is to keep them all. But I can put them in boxes in my basement , put them in storage at my summer home, put them in the attic.
Most of my collection came from blockbuster when i worked there. After a certian point we would toss extra copys when we moved them from new release (50-75 copies) to library stock (2-3 copies at most) So most are in binders. I just lost my love of owning things when i got my own apartment. I had very little space and these movies were taking to much of a foot print. Thats why I started ripping. I went from having
1 of these
http://www.webmall2000.net/storage/ms1400.asp Plus about 5 cd binders (for the ones with no cases)
and one of these for my games
http://www.webmall2000.net/storage/media_drawer.asp
To now having just the ingle small storage. Which I use for my console games. Since I've re bought most of my collection of pc games on steam so i keep the few blurays i own and the few console / pc games i own in there. It was really worth it to me.
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