On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:01:11 +0100, Steve Walker wrote:

On 15/04/2018 14:41, T i m wrote:
On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 14:04:12 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote:

T i m wrote:

those of you who rip their stuff to digital storage, how you
typically do so

I've used MakeMKV on linux a couple of times, it does take a bit of
suck-it and see to extract the correct tracks (e.g you might get the
director's cut, or foreign audio instead of the main film in English).

That was the bit I would need a bit of guidance on Andy. How would I
know / find out which is the track I need?

You'll have to lose a lot of quality squashing 50GB of BD onto a 4.7GB
DVD ...

I'm also likely to be squashing it into a smaller screen so may not
even notice ... and not being able to watch it on the DVD equipped TV
will have an even greater impact. ;-)

As an aside ... have you ever found yourself watch a 4x3 old TV show or
even B/W and finding that you have 'forgotten' it's not 16x9 and HD?

I certainly prefer to stretch 4:3 video to full screen and ignore the
distortion rather than have blank sections at each side. I don't really
notice when I'm absorbed in what's going on.


Yeuch! :-)

Yeah, I know, "Each to his own." and you can view a flat panel display
at an offset angle from a reasonable distance to largely correct the AR
distortion optically.

The blank sections either side of a 4:3 programme pillar boxed into a
16:9 display are far less a distraction, imho, than the otherwise
resulting Fat Vision presentation, especially when the screen itself has
a black bezel to help hide the fact of the 'Black Bars' which can, in
turn be facilitated by viewing in a darkened room against a dark
background.

--
Johnny B Good