best way to get small high quality rips?

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dcoke22
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Re: best way to get small high quality rips?

Post by dcoke22 »

If you don't want to go down the rabbit hole of transcoding, in the grand scheme of things, DVD rips are relatively small. A 2 hour movie on DVD is usually 5 or 6 GB. A little 2.5" USB powered external hard drive can hold quite a lot of stuff. A 5TB model costs about $100. That would hold 700 - 800 DVD rips. Blu-rays are bigger at 30 - 35GB, but a 5TB drive can hold quite a few of those too. You can always transcode your rips into something smaller later.

I keep all of my rips. I transcode almost all of them into something smaller, mostly because the smaller files makes it easy to put a bunch on a phone, tablet, or laptop for access while I'm traveling. Many of the rips I've transcoded more than once. The slowest and most tedious part of having a digital movie collection is getting the bits off the plastic disc. In an ideal world, it is something you'd only do once.
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