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Post by Kriss on Apr 17, 2024 19:03:50 GMT
French Connection had a six-letter racial slur removed. At least you got a good deal on The Mighty Boosh. People have paid a lot of money to get their hands on Song of the South and Come Fly With Me, which is maybe valuing free speech over quality to their own financial detriment. I don't know 'Come Fly With Me' but my aunt had a VHS of Song of the South when i was a small kid. I loved it then, obviously didn't really get the problem with it. I presume it was a tv recording as I think I read that it was only released in Japan on home video. Here's a few others I got for under 2 euro each fairly recently: Black Books Phoenix Nights Band of Brothers Ken Burns Vietnam Ken Burns Civil War Full.series of the Killing (Norwegian one) This stuff is going for a pittance! Come Fly With Me is a terrible David Walliams/Matt Lucas show about a low budget airline where they got a little bit too happy with the blackface. Even disregarding that it's one of the worst things ever shown on UK TV. Painfully unfunny. |
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Post by Jim on Apr 17, 2024 19:07:04 GMT
Oh yeah I vaguely remember it hearing of it. I never watched it as I didn't like Little Britain.
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Post by brodiescomics on Apr 17, 2024 21:19:08 GMT
I still have a use for DVD's Since our local Library system gets pretty much every mainstream movie in DVD format when it's released, I put a hold on the ones I'm interested in, pick it up when ready, bring it home, stick it in my old laptop, rip the file with MakeMKV, convert it to MPEG, and now I have a digital copy. I have @ 1400-1500 movies stretching back to the 1940's that sit on a small portable hard drive. I can stick the thing in to my pocket, and then plug it in to any USB on most newer TV's, scroll the files and then play the movie using a simple MPEG app. I did this for many years. Kinda got a way from it now. |
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Post by Jim on Apr 17, 2024 21:56:40 GMT
I've got probably 5 TB of old TV and movies on hard drives. Started doing it 20 years ago. Rarely break them out anymore. And a lot are in .avi format which isn't supported on my TV. Though I presume there's ways and means around that.
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Post by principalraditch on Apr 18, 2024 0:59:29 GMT
I still have a use for DVD's Since our local Library system gets pretty much every mainstream movie in DVD format when it's released, I put a hold on the ones I'm interested in, pick it up when ready, bring it home, stick it in my old laptop, rip the file with MakeMKV, convert it to MPEG, and now I have a digital copy. I have @ 1400-1500 movies stretching back to the 1940's that sit on a small portable hard drive. I can stick the thing in to my pocket, and then plug it in to any USB on most newer TV's, scroll the files and then play the movie using a simple MPEG app. I did this for many years. Kinda got a way from it now. I started when I was layed up after back surgery in 2017. I was off work for 3 months and my wife was travelling for work most of that time. I had to keep occupied. Back then it was more labor intensive because I was looking for older movies as well as newer titles getting added. Once I did most of the back catalogue, it came down to just adding new movies. Now it's maybe 15-20 a year tops that I'm interested in adding to the collection, so it's maybe a title or two a month at most, with an occasional older flick that I hadn't known about originally. |
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Post by Michael Abrams on Apr 18, 2024 14:46:13 GMT
Does this mean the admins here are going to have a new forum for selling DVD's like the old days?
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Post by BlazerTron on Apr 18, 2024 15:32:29 GMT
I did this for many years. Kinda got a way from it now. I started when I was layed up after back surgery in 2017. I was off work for 3 months and my wife was travelling for work most of that time. I had to keep occupied. Back then it was more labor intensive because I was looking for older movies as well as newer titles getting added. Once I did most of the back catalogue, it came down to just adding new movies. Now it's maybe 15-20 a year tops that I'm interested in adding to the collection, so it's maybe a title or two a month at most, with an occasional older flick that I hadn't known about originally. I've had the worst luck at our library with trying to watch rented dvds. Inevitably, I get through 60% of a movie or show and then the disc is corrupted due to a scratch or food or something on it. |
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Post by Kriss on Apr 18, 2024 15:38:10 GMT
I started when I was layed up after back surgery in 2017. I was off work for 3 months and my wife was travelling for work most of that time. I had to keep occupied. Back then it was more labor intensive because I was looking for older movies as well as newer titles getting added. Once I did most of the back catalogue, it came down to just adding new movies. Now it's maybe 15-20 a year tops that I'm interested in adding to the collection, so it's maybe a title or two a month at most, with an occasional older flick that I hadn't known about originally. I've had the worst luck at our library with trying to watch rented dvds. Inevitably, I get through 60% of a movie or show and then the disc is corrupted due to a scratch or food or something on it. A quick rule of thumb is to check the surface scratches. If you can see the reflection of a deep scratch underneath as you tilt the disc, it's deep enough to affect playback. |
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Post by brodiescomics on Apr 18, 2024 17:38:09 GMT
Does this mean the admins here are going to have a new forum for selling DVD's like the old days? No plans for a tape tarder forum. |
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Post by Michael Abrams on Apr 18, 2024 18:01:29 GMT
Does this mean the admins here are going to have a new forum for selling DVD's like the old days? No plans for a tape tarder forum. I was being a smart ass. Only one person laughed.  |
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Post by stone2k on Apr 18, 2024 22:13:36 GMT
I still have a use for DVD's Since our local Library system gets pretty much every mainstream movie in DVD format when it's released, I put a hold on the ones I'm interested in, pick it up when ready, bring it home, stick it in my old laptop, rip the file with MakeMKV, convert it to MPEG, and now I have a digital copy. I have @ 1400-1500 movies stretching back to the 1940's that sit on a small portable hard drive. I can stick the thing in to my pocket, and then plug it in to any USB on most newer TV's, scroll the files and then play the movie using a simple MPEG app. How easy and how much would it cost to make a second version of that? |
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Post by Dr. Strangelove on Apr 18, 2024 23:41:12 GMT
I did this for many years. Kinda got a way from it now. I started when I was layed up after back surgery in 2017. I was off work for 3 months and my wife was travelling for work most of that time. I had to keep occupied. Back then it was more labor intensive because I was looking for older movies as well as newer titles getting added. Once I did most of the back catalogue, it came down to just adding new movies. Now it's maybe 15-20 a year tops that I'm interested in adding to the collection, so it's maybe a title or two a month at most, with an occasional older flick that I hadn't known about originally. I pretty much did the exact same thing during COVID. I had about 1,000 DVDs worth of movies and T.V. shows which I converted to MP4. I've added 500 more titles since. |
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Post by principalraditch on Apr 18, 2024 23:48:18 GMT
I still have a use for DVD's Since our local Library system gets pretty much every mainstream movie in DVD format when it's released, I put a hold on the ones I'm interested in, pick it up when ready, bring it home, stick it in my old laptop, rip the file with MakeMKV, convert it to MPEG, and now I have a digital copy. I have @ 1400-1500 movies stretching back to the 1940's that sit on a small portable hard drive. I can stick the thing in to my pocket, and then plug it in to any USB on most newer TV's, scroll the files and then play the movie using a simple MPEG app. How easy and how much would it cost to make a second version of that? Would take a few minutes to make a copy of each MP4. No real cost, just take up a bit more space on the hard drive. If I was going to duplicate the whole library, say as a backup, @ $100 to buy another external drive and probably @ a day or so to make a copy of all the files since it's a few Terabytes of files. |
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Post by Jim on Apr 19, 2024 6:15:15 GMT
Question, that I could probably research in 5 min.
What's the best free converter... .avi to .ml4 or .mkv is what I want. I've a ton of .avi.
I vaguely remember trying something years ago but it took an age for each file
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Post by Kriss on Apr 19, 2024 9:33:34 GMT
Question, that I could probably research in 5 min. What's the best free converter... .avi to .ml4 or .mkv is what I want. I've a ton of .avi. I vaguely remember trying something years ago but it took an age for each file Best, I don't know, but I've been using VLC for years with no problems. |
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