What's the best way to archive your movie collection? Put them on external hard disks?
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What's the best way to archive your movie collection? Put them on external hard disks?
Using the raw power of your mind alone
I use a LTO 5 tape system with about 60+tb of tapes. They have a great read/write rate and a phenomenal shelf life. I archive all my files to it, then copy whatever I'm watching to my external 1tb ssd.
How much did that set up cost? I currently have around 120tb of usable space in my server, but I'm just using snapRAID for backup.
Be nice to have a full mirror in cold storage.
Can’t tell if lying or extremely autistic.
Extremely autistic.
Not bad at all, thanks anon.
Less than $600 on ebay for the drive and about another $200 for misc cabling and cards and such. Got the 60tb of tapes for like $40
Salt mine.
I trust on digital hoarders and nostalgiagays. Someone will do it for us. No reason for me to lose valuable jacuzzi space.
How would you get the movies if they crack down on torrents and piracy?
I wouldn't. I would just listen and that's what nobody did.
They'll take away your music too.
I'd give them a war like they wouldn't believe. Anyways: DVD baby, all the way. I've got around 1200 movies and ten or so TV-shows. Music is on external hard drives.
Here's how I do it (and I'm NOT an expert)...
1. Start with DVD collection
2. Rip to digital using WinX software
3. Main copy goes to in-home NAS (Western Digital My Cloud EX2 Ultra)
4. Backup copy to an external/removable drive
All of the TV's in my home can access the library via the NAS. If the NAS goes toast for some reason, I can restore from the backup copy.
I retain DVD's, as they are what technically gives me the right to make private backup copies.
DVDs are in 570p
thats barely watchable
well that sounds like a first world problem. But it probably doesn't matter, especially if you're watching a lot of 70+ year old movies, which I do.
However, you have to be careful not to fall into the cycle of updated re-releases; which sucker you into buying the same product over and over again...
> Here's a VHS tape
> Now we have the DVD
> but wait, here's the director's cut DVD
> Now it's the 25th anniversary release, with new footage
> now it's the restored cut
> hey, we invented 4k, time to buy it all again.
I have ~700 DVD's in my collection. 570p may be unwatchable for you; but it's good enough for me, and there's zero chance that I am going to replace my entire collection with someone's version of a newer better
You must have a small tv
Even 1080p Bluray isnt good enough on a 65inch tv, can still see compression artifacts, so use the nvidia shield's great 4k upscaler
Newer releases are not always better either except in scan quality. There's often fricked up aspect ratios, color grading etc. Even on the supposedly top end stuff like Criterion. Sometimes it's even the director himself who fricks it up because he has become illusioned and senile.
what really drives me nuts is when they decide to make "improvements" and edit out classic moments.
Two examples:
In the 1967 film "The President's Analyst" there is a key scene which includes a song sung by Barry McGuire:
When they first released the film on DVD (from videotape), they changed the song, replacing it with some royalty free horse shit. People got so pissed off, they had to re-release the DVD with the old song back in.
Example 2:
In order to "fix the aspect ratio" of the film Showgirls (1995), they cut off the bottom 1/3 of the video in order to make it fit.
>they cut off the bottom 1/3 of the video in order to make it fit.
Damn, that's pretty draconian
Companies attempting to make their films "fit" the entire screen was an opposite version of the old "pan and scan" problem; where movies being shown on TV had to be butchered
What release of Showgirls is that?
those kind of frick-ups are pretty rare tho. the most common complaint about 4K releases is excessive DNR to make old movies look like they were shot on digital
True story... back in the 1970's, a lot of cities had their own local "movie shows"; where some film buff or minor celebrity would show daily movies on some TV channel. In the Detroit area, it was the show "Bill Kennedy at the Movies"; hosted by a guy who was a very minor actor for a very short time.
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The movies would be cut down by the station in order to fit commercials, and not always with the plot in mind.
One time they were showing the movie "An Affair to Remember" (1957); and the part they cut out for commercial was the key moment of the film that explained everything (Cary Grant finding the painting and realizing that Deborah Kerr is crippled). This scene:
Kennedy flipped out and was so pissed off, he made them play the missing part at the opening of his next day's show, just so the audience could understand the film.
additional trivia...
> kennedy was best known as the announcer in the opening intro of "The Adventures of Superman" (1952-1958)
I saw it when I saved it but I left it because I was sure some virgin chuds would get butthurt.
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I don't have to with dipshits out there like you