Blu ray - I love this format

Readers of my older blog, would know that I purchased a Blu ray burner a while ago, and while I found the digital rights restrictions a royal pain, the video and audio quality is mind blowing, and even on my 720p projector (rather than 1080p), it leaves DVD for dead.

One of the problems with the format is that it is difficult to view it elsewhere. I became quite used to watching my DVDs on all sorts of devices ranging from my iPod, PSP, PC, home theatre to my laptop on the road, or even streaming it to TVs in other rooms of my house.

None of this is immediately possible with Blu ray because it is relatively difficult to rip, compress or basically transfer or transcode it to something else, apart from using another Blu ray device.

I think I've now found the answer to that problem, with Ripbot264. I'm currently in the middle of some tests, and once I'm happy with it, I'll come back with a basic guide. I have it working now so that I can compress movies into 4 - 8 Gb mkv files, which are nice for media storage with minimal loss of quality. I'm also going to play with shrinking it further for playback on a couple of other devices around the home, including less powerful PCs that choke on HD.

Later.