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Jul 23, 2015, 01:37 am
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What do you do with your downloaded video files, specifically ones you got here?
Here, I make two copies: a disc copy and a file on an external hard drive. The reason I still burn to disc, is probably for "genuine purpose;." I want to emulate the genuine article, as if I bought them. Is that vanity?
It just looks like I am collecting or preserving something, like baseball cards, I guess.
Throughout my life, I have always been collecting stuff, like video games, TV shows, movies, books, and money!
What are your habits?
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Well regarding movies/series, I watch them and delete, if I want to watch again, I just dl it again (lol)
But I do collect software, I'm a software junkie...
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Movies and tv shows are burnt to DVD-R. A DVD-R costs around 15 cents each. I download SD, not HD. Downloaded flacs to DVD-R too.
Hard drives only with software, books, and my own torrents. One for backup. Nothing massive, 500 GB.
In a DVD-R you can have one season, or 4-5 movies. 15-20 FLAC CDs each. Harddrives have a life span of around 10 years I read somewhere, DVDs are pretty much forever.
If you burn a FLAC to CD-R, you don't emulate the real thing, you have a clone of the real CD, that you can play in your hifi hardware. Video don't have a perfect standard like audio with the CD format. For me a 800 mb movie is state of the art quality.
I don't delete much, because in case of doubt I don't download. Too much quality around to lose time with second rate stuff.
I collect too.
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Hi connor17,
Do you burn with ConvertXtoDVD?
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(Jul 23, 2015, 18:58 pm)RobertX Wrote: Hi connor17,
Do you burn with ConvertXtoDVD?
well, he said he fits 4~5 800MB movies in a dvd. how would he do that with convertx without turning them into a mess of blocky artifacts? 
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Jul 24, 2015, 04:23 am
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I don't convert anything. Instead of converting stuff you should use hardware that can play the formats, like a multimedia thingy.
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i don't mind answering that. converting with convertx means reducing the quality while increasing the size, usually by a huge amount.
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Sure, thanks pal.
EDIT: Actually, I do both. However, the reason for keeping both is that I want to keep a backup and to be able to watch it on my TV DVD player. It's a wicked piece of machinery.
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I've heard about hipsters and vinyl fetish, but I've never heard before about DVD players fetish.
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