Obviously hasn't even looked at anything about Blu-ray. I've been burning back to BD-r/BD-RE's for over a year now, and the price has dropped from around £500 to £140 for a writer, and the price of single layer discs is just over £6. I'm obviously 'doing the impossible'
wow, sounds like a bargain. definitely worth it. But seriously, burner = $200 + media = $15/pop. Bluray Movies at Walmart = $15/pop.
OK SO maybe I was wrong for using "Impossible. Yes, I do need to read more on it, that is why i am here asking; sorry for being wrong..... you're coming across like smart-ass know-it-all's. And you do know more than me, that is why I am asking, not trying to be a jerk.
"Impossible" was definitely the wrong word to use on my part. Let me clarify "Impossible"; simple to do and financial feasible; which doesn't seem like right now.
So I'll eat my words, if you can answer me this: you're saying that you can stick in a bluray movie in a reader, a blank bluray disc in a bluray burner, run a program, making a PERFECT 1-to-1 BACKUP of the movie, ripping any DRM/previews/Region Codes from the copy, just like any purchased DVD with CloneDVD/AnyDVD?
If so, you are awesome
. If so, why are people having so many issues with making bluray backups, if it is so easy?
I do not want a flame war, I do not mean to piss anyone off, I would just like some answers from those who are forging ahead of the rest of us, please. The reason I am here is to learn from those who have put forth the effort (for which I thank you) to make things easy for the rest of us.
I ran a few mkv's from an external USB2 HDD and it appears to have the bandwidth to run full 1080p. I saw a few artifacts and frame drops, but that was because I was running a few other apps simultaneously. My quad core was running about 25-30% just to play the movie, along with an Geforce 8500 512MB, Vista SP1 32-bit, & 4GB DDR2 (let's not get into the memory limit of 32-bit systems right now).
And it appears that the video card plays a major role. My 512MB GeForce 7950 on my dual core laptop doesn't do very well with these mkv files over USB2.
Lastly, how do you rip the single xxGB *.mkv from the disk?
Thanks for your help & answers.