Size of movie rips(resolution) to watch on 46" LED TV
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siddharth.beam
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Being.smart
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better, buy a ps3 or a blu-ray player, rent blu-ray online and watch it on your HDTV, when you spent hell lot of money for a 46-inch panel that too LED, why bother spending a little more to enjoy the thing for which the panel has been specially engineered
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Can you tell , which brand, which model panel it is, and how much did it cost
Can you tell , which brand, which model panel it is, and how much did it cost
i strongly suggest downloading 720p rips of about 4.5 GB to 6 GB, if you want an optimum balance between video quality and file size. those 700 MB divx rips will look like crap on your television. dont even bother.. infact, when HD came out, i deleted all of my 700MB collection and upgraded the same to 720p HD rips. they are so much better.. theres no comparison..
hey #[member='Being.smart']. we meet again.. but this time i strongly disagree with you. buying a ps3 or a bluray player will be the most stupid decision when already so much has been spent on large size screen.
I'd suggest, buy a HD media player. .WD TV Live for example, which is also one of the best in the market.. you will get it from a starting of about 7K depending on the model you choose. it will play each and every format you throw at it, and play off from your USB hard drive or flash drive. or just save it in the player if you buy the one with an inbuilt HDD..
whats the point of buying a PS3, another 20K?? and blu ray player??? thats the most ridiculous thing in the market with the blu ray movies being priced outrageously... by the time you are done watching about 20 movies, you will have already spent more than the blu ray player, the ps3 just on the discs.. and watch a little more, you will have exceeded your HDTV cost.
my suggestion is, either buy one of those HD media players, or buy an HDMI cable and play movies off your laptop. movies you download in the 4.5 GB 720p range, will mostly have a .mkv extension and some of them will be in .mp4 format..
better, buy a ps3 or a blu-ray player, rent blu-ray online and watch it on your HDTV, when you spent hell lot of money for a 46-inch panel that too LED, why bother spending a little more to enjoy the thing for which the panel has been specially engineered.
Can you tell , which brand, which model panel it is, and how much did it cost
hey #[member='Being.smart']. we meet again.. but this time i strongly disagree with you. buying a ps3 or a bluray player will be the most stupid decision when already so much has been spent on large size screen.
I'd suggest, buy a HD media player. .WD TV Live for example, which is also one of the best in the market.. you will get it from a starting of about 7K depending on the model you choose. it will play each and every format you throw at it, and play off from your USB hard drive or flash drive. or just save it in the player if you buy the one with an inbuilt HDD..
whats the point of buying a PS3, another 20K?? and blu ray player??? thats the most ridiculous thing in the market with the blu ray movies being priced outrageously... by the time you are done watching about 20 movies, you will have already spent more than the blu ray player, the ps3 just on the discs.. and watch a little more, you will have exceeded your HDTV cost.
my suggestion is, either buy one of those HD media players, or buy an HDMI cable and play movies off your laptop. movies you download in the 4.5 GB 720p range, will mostly have a .mkv extension and some of them will be in .mp4 format..
Being.smart
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^ For HD media player you will need to download movies, time consuming + not even close to blu-ray quality, Also blu-ray player are available for 8-9k in market that to branded ones
, and you can easily rent Blu-ray movies for just Rs. 70-80 per movie, check various plans @ movie-mart , and also i am against piracy, tht's why i am more on the side of blu-ray
systembuilder
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for a 46" LED, i would suggest 7-8 GB 1080P blu ray Rips. Or 4-5 GB 720P Rips minimum. Forget about 700 MB DVD rips or 1-2 GB 720P/1080 P. Trust me, you have spent that much on the TV, dont compromise on the quality.
Umm, this is a topic in which I would agree to disagree but as Raksrules said it is a matter of perception.
For me, I have downloaded 720p/1080p rips for all the movies that I love and will have in my collection as long as possible. For series and the movies which I probably wouldn't see again, normal 480p is more than enough. Though difficult to believe, but the 480p rips (700 MB) look much, much better on my 40" LCD than they do on my 22" TFT LCD monitor. The LCD TV does a much better job of displaying those prints than my computer monitor ever did.
Obviously HD is going to look better than SD, but unless you are a download freak with TBs of HDD (which I am btw, but I still don't download everything in HD), it is a better idea to prioritize to save on time and money.
For me, I have downloaded 720p/1080p rips for all the movies that I love and will have in my collection as long as possible. For series and the movies which I probably wouldn't see again, normal 480p is more than enough. Though difficult to believe, but the 480p rips (700 MB) look much, much better on my 40" LCD than they do on my 22" TFT LCD monitor. The LCD TV does a much better job of displaying those prints than my computer monitor ever did.
Obviously HD is going to look better than SD, but unless you are a download freak with TBs of HDD (which I am btw, but I still don't download everything in HD), it is a better idea to prioritize to save on time and money.
Not true completely. A hd rip of say 25GB can have a sub-par video encode but a DTS HD MA or Dolby Tru HD audio encode, whereas a 8GB rip might have an extremely good video encode and a DTS or AC3 audio track - best of both worlds IMO. So that logic isn't exactly true.
Ok let me check this!
I already have some files which are the size you mentioned here. I thought would need anything over 10 GB for FULL HD.
better, buy a ps3 or a blu-ray player, rent blu-ray online and watch it on your HDTV, when you spent hell lot of money for a 46-inch panel that too LED, why bother spending a little more to enjoy the thing for which the panel has been specially engineered.
Can you tell , which brand, which model panel it is, and how much did it cost
Right now no budget to buy PS3 or a blu Ray player. I didn't get it when you say rent online and watch on HDTV? You mean watch online on net?
Samsung 46" D6000
Why is 1080p poorer than 720p? I thought it's the other way round.
I download 3D 1080p rips (around 1.3 to 3gb) and they looked great. I tried 5-6gb 720p rips but what I could see was a lot of visible pixel blocks on my screen.
Which TV do you have? I mean size model?
How is 3D rip different from the regular 1080p rip?
Bro I feel we both are on the same wave length. Even I feel should not go for Blu Ray Player or PS3. Atleast not right now.
Even I feel the same though have not tried yet that 700 MB Rip will look crap. They look crap on my 21" Monitor itself.
The HD Media player should be the next thing that I should go for. Hopefully sometime soon. In the meantime I hope my Samsung TV supports most of the formats.
If my desktop doesn't have an HDMI what to do? Buy a video card?
Being.smart' timestamp='1333090594' post='1728776 said:^ For HD media player you will need to download movies, time consuming + not even close to blu-ray quality, Also blu-ray player are available for 8-9k in market that to branded ones, and you can easily rent Blu-ray movies for just Rs. 70-80 per movie, check various plans @ movie-mart , and also i am against piracy, tht's why i am more on the side of blu-ray
Any more details on how to get Blu-Ray discs for rent?
systembuilder' timestamp='1333095139' post='1728824 said:
Agree with you here!
puneetritehere' timestamp='1333095844' post='1728828 said:
Agreed
himakanth009
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It is amazing that no one has mentioned about the viewing distance.
First let us know your viewing distance from the TV so based on that u can decide.
Because if u r seated too far it doe'nt matter if u r watching a dvd rip or a blu ray rip
First let us know your viewing distance from the TV so based on that u can decide.
Because if u r seated too far it doe'nt matter if u r watching a dvd rip or a blu ray rip
I think I would need some technical knowledge on the ripping thing to get a grip of this. But I accept that I saw a difference in overall quality and sometimes even files of lesser size were overall better than the ones with bigger size.
Superbad
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again depends (not mentioning the encoder).
i have seen 1 GB 1080p rips of movies looking better than a 4GB rips but audio quality was a compromise.
but if you have a better HT sound system you can get over the audio loss.
systembuilder
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See, the quality of a movie depends on these three factors :
1. Video Codec
2. Video Bitrate (which in turn decides the final size of the rip)
3. Resolution.
So, a 720P video with video bitrate around 1.5 Mbps will look much better than lets say a 1080P video of 800 Kbps bitrate. Higher the bitrate, better the qulaity and bigger the size.
Coming to codecs, H.264 (usually contained in mp4 or mkv extensions) gives better quality for the same size than Xvid (contained in avi extension usually).
So a 720P mkv file of 2.4 GB will give you much better quality than a 2.4 GB 1080P/720P avi (xvid) file. Or you can say a 4 GB Avi file will give you the same quality as a 2.4 GB Mkv, at same resolution.
Being.smart
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#[member='andy1978'] ,
This mean, rent blu-ray online from movie-mart, they ship it to your house, after you get bored, they pickup it from your house, they got really nice collection of movies in blu-ray and nice packages also.
and seeing the BUDGET word, one more idea struck in my mind. Buy Tata Sky HD+
, Currently i am also using one, they transmit in 1080i native resolution and the quality is awesome, 100times better than ripped one, and the best thing is that for Audio you get 7.1-channel Dolby Digital [DTS would have been better], you can watch many flicks in Star Gold HD and Star Movies HD, and which all you love, record it in your STB
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rent online and watch on HDTVand seeing the BUDGET word, one more idea struck in my mind. Buy Tata Sky HD+
Superbad
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#[member='andy1978'] ,This mean, rent blu-ray online from movie-mart, they ship it to your house, after you get bored, they pickup it from your house, they got really nice collection of movies in blu-ray and nice packages also.Code:rent online and watch on HDTV
and seeing the BUDGET word, one more idea struck in my mind. Buy Tata Sky HD+, Currently i am also using one, they transmit in 1080i native resolution and the quality is awesome, 100times better than ripped one, and the best thing is that for Audio you get 7.1-channel Dolby Digital [DTS would have been better], you can watch many flicks in Star Gold HD and Star Movies HD, and which all you love, record it in your STB
No, because movies get censored unnecessarily spoiling the storyline.
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