ditching discs for ripped media

RobTi

RobTi

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Hi if i rip my 4k discs on 1-1 settings and stream to my apple tv wired from my plex server will i notice anything ?
Thanks
 
I've done, side by side comparisons (switching back and forth inputs on the same TV) of both ripped and 4k disks and I can't tell the difference, in terms of image quality.

What you may experience is a slight audio delay if you're using Plex. In my experience it's a delay that you can't offset on your AVR. That was what using an Nvidia Shield, so ATV maybe ok.

Also Apple TV has issues with some lossless audio formats or pass through or both.
 
Probably stating the obvious but just rip a single one (before doing the whole lot!) and see how it goes. If you're at 100gb max rip then you're likely to need a steady 15MB stream rate which should be fine for cable but might have issues on Wi-Fi if you're a bit away from the nearest point.
 
Thanks all, stupid me I ripped all my 4k before posting this, as far as I can see there is no difference at least to me, I seem to watch the films more often than when I had to get a disc from the cupboard and play it
 
RobTi said:
Hi if i rip my 4k discs on 1-1 settings and stream to my apple tv wired from my plex server will i notice anything ?
Thanks
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No. But your HD capacity will go down a lot haha. I'm not sure HDD capacity is large enough for 1:1 4K transfers if you have a large collection, cost of several large capacity hard drives aren't really worth saving the two minutes it takes to walk over to the cupboard open a flip case etc.

Not like CD's where you can put thousands of CD's on an affordable drive.
 
hornetstinger said:
No. But your HD capacity will go down a lot haha. I'm not sure HDD capacity is large enough for 1:1 4K transfers if you have a large collection, cost of several large capacity hard drives aren't really worth saving the two minutes it takes to walk over to the cupboard open a flip case etc.

Not like CD's where you can put thousands of CD's on an affordable drive.
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Have it all on my unraid server 50Tb approximately
 
hornetstinger said:
I think 4K BD movies are something like 60-80GB each? I'd strip audio tracks you don't want. Possibly extras ie LOTR extras

for my use 4K storage on HDD just wouldn't be economical. Doable for 1080p MKV movies as those aren't too bad.
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I run it through a mkv program and strip all the foreign audio but it doesn’t cut it down much
 
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