Before I sink money into backing up Blu-Rays.....

[btufail]

Few questions I have any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been using dvdfab and or quite some time to back up to dvd5 and dvd9. Great program btw and great forums. I think I have a pretty good knowledge of the program as far as all the settings and compression are concerned. I purchased my 1st Blu-Ray player(stand-alone Sony bd350) last year. I have quite a few original Blu-rays in my collection. AND I'M BIG ON IMAGE QUALITY. I TRY TO USE LITTLE OR NO COMPRESSION IF POSSIBLE.
1. Does the back-up process work similar to dvd? Can i pick the movie only with 1 audio and 1 subtitle?
2. are most movies bd25(movie only and not extras). is there huge loss in PQ from bd50 to bd25?
3. I use verbatims blanks for Dual-layers because of their realiablity. Does the same go for BD's? or what's the best media?
4. i use a basic laptop to backup dvds. will that suffice for blu-ray backup? if so, what external drives do you recommend?

Thanks in advance.

[pc03]

You should be able to use the trial version without restrictions for 30 days.

If you remove all the extra crap that comes on a blu ray and compress it to fit on a bd25 you shouldn't see any quality loss.

You can't ever go wrong with Verbatim.

You need a blu-ray rom to back up to your computer and a burner if you wish to put it on a disk so your laptop won't cut it.

[btufail]

You should be able to use the trial version without restrictions for 30 days.

If you remove all the extra crap that comes on a blu ray and compress it to fit on a bd25 you shouldn't see any quality loss.

You can't ever go wrong with Verbatim.

You need a blu-ray rom to back up to your computer and a burner if you wish to put it on a disk so your laptop won't cut it.

Thanks. Only thing is i really don't want to purchase a desktop again. I saw that LG makes an external BD burner. Any of you guys have experience with external BD writers?

[signals]

Download the trial and make a few BD-9/1080 discs (which you burn onto DVD-9s). The quality is amazing. But your PC will need horsepower if you plan to do much of this. I have an external (LG), works fine.

Please don't use font colors.

[thisizbrian]

if your going to get an external make sure its esata and not usb.

you can always buy a internal blu ray burner and put it in the vantec external enclosure.

[Racem22]

USB would be fine. There's a lot of people that do not have eSATA ports available, since it isn't quite a universal standard as USB is. I know a few people that have external BD burners that work fine on USB.

[btufail]

make a few BD-9/1080 discs (which you burn onto DVD-9s)

thanks for the input guys. I didn't realize it was possible to burn a BD movie to a dual-layer disc. Again I'm all about retaining original image quality so I don't plan on doing a lot of compression if I can avoid it.

[thisizbrian]

than your gonna be dumping alot of money into bd-50's or backing up to hdd and using a media player.

[AGJ]

thanks for the input guys. I didn't realize it was possible to burn a BD movie to a dual-layer disc. Again I'm all about retaining original image quality so I don't plan on doing a lot of compression if I can avoid it.

using a basic laptop you will never be able to compress anyway as it would take like 20+ hours to finish compressing one Blu-ray.

[btufail]

than your gonna be dumping alot of money into bd-50's or backing up to hdd and using a media player.

using a basic laptop you will never be able to compress anyway as it would take like 20+ hours to finish compressing one Blu-ray.

Again this is all helpful info. I might just wait for the price of BD-50's to come down even if it's a year or 2. I didn't realize compressing Blu-rays was so CPU intensive . My laptop can compress a DVD-9 with no problems. But obviously we're dealing with a different type of media now. I can't justify buying a high-end desktop again just for this purpose. I'll wait it out for now unless something drastically changes. Thanks again for the help.

[signals]

thanks for the input guys. I didn't realize it was possible to burn a BD movie to a dual-layer disc. Again I'm all about retaining original image quality so I don't plan on doing a lot of compression if I can avoid it.

Try this before dismissing the advice. They are all but indistinguishable from the original.

[btufail]

Try this before dismissing the advice. They are all but indistinguishable from the original.

I could and I'm kinda of curious to see if there is any diference. However, my laptop isn't even high-end utlilizing only a celeron processor. From what you guys are saying, I need machine with enough processing power that can handle that kind of compression. I don't think I want to go back to a Desktop. I have been thinking of upgrading my laptop. Any recommendations?

[GregiBoy]

Yeah, don't buy one!!

Or if you are absolutely convinced that you have to, buy an external drive for it.

Laptops/portables are always problematic !!!

[signals]

I could and I'm kinda of curious to see if there is any diference. However, my laptop isn't even high-end utlilizing only a celeron processor. From what you guys are saying, I need machine with enough processing power that can handle that kind of compression. I don't think I want to go back to a Desktop. I have been thinking of upgrading my laptop. Any recommendations?

I have an HP dv8t notebook that can do almost anything a desktop can, including compress and burn Blu-rays. Whatever brand you choose, get an i7 CPU and discrete nvidia graphics if you want to use it for Blu-ray. Ipopov50 has a similar Sony.

[Bendit]

laptops are fine. I've been DVDFab'ing forever with my Dell Precision M6400 laptop. I have an external blu-ray drive. Well, here's my hardware:

I have a Pioneer BDR-205BK Blu Ray Burner installed in a NexStar DX External 5.25" SATA enclosure. It is connected to my Dell M6400 laptop via eSATA.

All is good. I run my compressing jobs at night while I sleep, burn in the morning. Takes me 5-7 hours to compress sometimes.