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Because I think it is dumb, and that's all that matters to me. If you don't like me insulting it, either ignore me, report me, or both. I'm not going to act like some happy yuppie to suit everyone else.
Nope, dumb. I don't need to respect anyone else's opinion, and I don't need to hide the fact that I don't. This is what makes the world go around.
The logic is: I'm my own person, I can have my own thoughts, and I can be as much of a "prick" about my opinions as I want to be. I'm not throwing any fit. It's all your negative reactions to my comments that are the true hissy fits.
The logic is: I'm my own person, I can have my own thoughts, and I can be as much of a "prick" about my opinions as I want to be. I'm not throwing any fit. It's all your negative reactions to my comments that are the true hissy fits.
I would love for you to meet the [H] Jawbreaker, you would only talk like that to him once.I do talk to people like that in person, tough guy.
Thank you, this forum and thread totally needed that.
Yes, you're the ones seeming so annoyed/offended that someone could ever disagree with your opinions or find them stupid. The world is quickly turning yuppie, and yuppies can't handle any negativity or honesty, whatsoever. Ya just can't tell it like it is anymore without someone going all emo on ya and start calling ya made up internet names. That last part was such a laugh at logic.
What other word is there to describe a sheep who just follows social trendiness? There seems to be no distinction anymore between telling it like it is and being a prick when someone receives a negative opinion from someone telling it like it is (or telling a person what's on their mind).
Hmm, so simply not liking something is now not logical? Interesting. I'll have to put my head up my butt and start blindly acting like everyone else around me. I simply state my opinion about how stupid I think something is, and everyone jumps down my throat. So yeah, I'm illogical I guess. As I said before, there is a way to ignore users. I'm not going anywhere, and even if I am kicked out, I have instant access to make new domains, and I can just call my ISP and get my IP address changed if you want to go that far.
You have some serious mental problems.
this thread is being hijacked.
OP, rip to each one and check.
A lot of people are saying it's a waste to buy high def stuff and downconvert but I disagree. 720p is still high def, and the difference from 480p to 720p is very big, however, the difference to from 720p to 1080p isn't as noticable (for me anyways). And since you can't exactly buy 720p movies and most tv's are 1080p anyways, i would completely understand if you ripped most of your stuff to 720p to save some space.
I'm not the one getting all bent out of shape by someone having a non-mainstream/non-yuppie opinion.
That's why you are calling us names and insulting us. Right.Different strokes. You all seem to be hypocrites about that one...
Bit-rate affects the video quality far more than the resolution does. At least between 1080p and 720p. Obviously going way below 720p in terms of resolution will look bad no matter the bit-rate.
Example, a 2 hour BluRay encoded at 720p and 1080p both 8GB in size with handbrake looks identical as far as I can tell on my 136" 1080p projector from about 15ft. The original BluRay source at 35GB looks a bit better though but it's not night and day difference IMO.
Personally I'd rather go for number of movies over having a perfect quality rip of less. My ~1000 collection of 720p rips take up about 4TB right now. It would be much, much larger to store them all at 1080p at a bit-rate increase where you would start to see any real differences. Probably double the size.
What I do:
TV Shows: Compressed to 720p @ 4000Kbit Video (~2GB per hour), 256 AC3 Audio
"Standard" Low action Movies: Compressed to 720p @ 9000 Kbit (~4GB per hour), 448 AC3 Audio
Movies with lots of action/special effects: Compressd to 1080p @ 16000 Kbit (~7 GB Hour), Original Audio
Saves space and still looks very very good.
My rules are this:
1) If it is my most favorite movie that I will watch often, encode to 1080p w/ full audio
2) If it is something I don't watch often 720p w/ full audio
3) If it is something I rarely watch or not an action film, 720p w/ 2 channel audio
4) All TV is encoded down to 720p and 2 channel audio
I would take a 720p GOOD rip over a 1080p high compression rip any day. The compression artifacts bother me a lot more than resoution fuzziness / upscaling does.
A lot of people are saying it's a waste to buy high def stuff and downconvert but I disagree. 720p is still high def, and the difference from 480p to 720p is very big, however, the difference to from 720p to 1080p isn't as noticable (for me anyways). And since you can't exactly buy 720p movies and most tv's are 1080p anyways, i would completely understand if you ripped most of your stuff to 720p to save some space.
my $0.02: a good quality 720p rip is perfectly fine for most situations. sure 1080p may be better sometimes, but most of the time it is just a bigger file that taxes the computer more to decode/move/copy/whatever. most PS3 (4gb) compatible 1080p rips are ok, though quite obviously not as good as a larger 720p rip, as a decent 40"+ 1080p monitor/tv will show. all in all, i've got about 700 movies on my server with most being 720p and a few favorites being 10gb+ 1080p versions.
I tried many MKV 1080/720 but I would say BD9 rips provide the best quality vs size tradeoff. One week ago I heard about BD9 rips and when I finaly watched few I was totally amazed. Compression artifacts wasn't so apparent and sharpnes finaly looked PERFECT, more like photo. I could see small details just popping on from every textures, no MKV ever impressed me that much.
Guys, I thought that MKV and BD9 use the same picture stream, only different containers? But I clearly see that picture quality is so much improved on BD9, even compression noise isnt so apparent!!!!. I dont know, maybe it has something to do with resolution and scaling, I looked at resolutions and all of my BD9 are 1080p, even 2.35:1. On the other hand 2.35:1 format "1080p" mkv was always 1920x800, so 800p not 1080p. Maybe BD9 use anamorphic format ? I also quessing that my graphic card 680GTX have build in some hardware support (maybe processing engine for m2ts structure?) but even my BR player showed improved picture ( sharpness and clarity ).
it is forbidden to comment older threads ? I didnt wanted to make a new one just for my post.Nice necro bump.
Well Azhar, probably you right, but I thought that maybe BR movies also use anamorphic format like most DVD 16/9 enchanced films. On DVD discs even 2.35:1 presented films use all resolution lines (720x576 pal or 720x480 ntsc)They count the black bars at the top and bottom too, which makes the television as a whole 1080p. The fact that a movie is considered 1080p only means it'll fill up a 1080p television from side to side without stretching it, not necessarily top to bottom or the entire screen.