Food for thought about all this video conversion
Are we not seeing the wood for the trees?
Here's a copied reply from me to another thread - apologies that it's not a formal question, just thought that many of us are maybe getting worked up over video conversion etc, but I honestly occasionally wonder about the time expended/benefit ratio!:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=929547&tstart=0
Comments welcome.
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Hi Canucks
Pleas don't take this the wrong way - just some food for thought.
You've converted nearly 2/3 of about 800 DVDs so far - that's pretty impressive given how long it takes per movie.
I've managed less than 20 in 3-4 weeks.
Numbers aside, it's just dawned on me recently that I haven't actually watched a single one of those converted movies through to the end via Apple TV!
Now I'm certainly planning on developing a huge streaming movie library, but when you think about it, there's only so much time in the day to watch or for that matter, convert movies.
So, if you already have a couple of hundred movies available to watch, how many have you actually looked at? Let's say each movie is 2 hours long, and you watched 2 each day - you've probably got enough content to keep you going for a few months already!
I'm not being critical, just personally wondering how much benefit all this converting gives you, compared to the time/storage costs.
If there was a new movie out I'd probably want to watch it in full quality from DVD with Dolby/DTS surround rather than via AppleTV but for things I'd seen before AppleTV might be just the ticket to re-watch DVDs sitting on a shelf I haven't looked at for years, and that's how I plan to use it.
As I say this is just food for thought, but I was just reading something the other day (effectively about time management) which brought home to me something I'd been suspecting for a while - basically that some gadgets can take up more time and give you more hassle than return benefit and I think that getting worked up over movie conversions/storage is one of those things.
Don't get me wrong I love my AppleTV but I think I will mainly use if for listening to my music collection, and showing home movies/photos. I have literally tens of thosuands of digital photos taken in the last few years that I never look at on the PC or print, but AppleTV is the perfect medium for making these available for family/friends when they come round.
I still plan on converting DVDs/Eye TV/Topfield captures for the AppleTV, but if I watch a couple a week anc ocnvert a couple a week that should suffice.
Here's a copied reply from me to another thread - apologies that it's not a formal question, just thought that many of us are maybe getting worked up over video conversion etc, but I honestly occasionally wonder about the time expended/benefit ratio!:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=929547&tstart=0
Comments welcome.
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Hi Canucks
Pleas don't take this the wrong way - just some food for thought.
You've converted nearly 2/3 of about 800 DVDs so far - that's pretty impressive given how long it takes per movie.
I've managed less than 20 in 3-4 weeks.
Numbers aside, it's just dawned on me recently that I haven't actually watched a single one of those converted movies through to the end via Apple TV!
Now I'm certainly planning on developing a huge streaming movie library, but when you think about it, there's only so much time in the day to watch or for that matter, convert movies.
So, if you already have a couple of hundred movies available to watch, how many have you actually looked at? Let's say each movie is 2 hours long, and you watched 2 each day - you've probably got enough content to keep you going for a few months already!
I'm not being critical, just personally wondering how much benefit all this converting gives you, compared to the time/storage costs.
If there was a new movie out I'd probably want to watch it in full quality from DVD with Dolby/DTS surround rather than via AppleTV but for things I'd seen before AppleTV might be just the ticket to re-watch DVDs sitting on a shelf I haven't looked at for years, and that's how I plan to use it.
As I say this is just food for thought, but I was just reading something the other day (effectively about time management) which brought home to me something I'd been suspecting for a while - basically that some gadgets can take up more time and give you more hassle than return benefit and I think that getting worked up over movie conversions/storage is one of those things.
Don't get me wrong I love my AppleTV but I think I will mainly use if for listening to my music collection, and showing home movies/photos. I have literally tens of thosuands of digital photos taken in the last few years that I never look at on the PC or print, but AppleTV is the perfect medium for making these available for family/friends when they come round.
I still plan on converting DVDs/Eye TV/Topfield captures for the AppleTV, but if I watch a couple a week anc ocnvert a couple a week that should suffice.
I am about 2/3rds into converting 800 DVD's to MP4, I
am really happy with the options apple tv gives me
and the quality is great. there is however a small
quirk. I am storing all this media on a 1TB firewire8
external HDD and have to my horror discovered I will
not have enough storage space to fit this and future
movies on. SO what the heck do I do?.
iMac Core 2 Duo 20", Mac OS X (10.4.8)
