Since the studios keep adding titles to both UV as a whole and to the disc-to-digital program, I decided to take another pass through my movies. I've picked up another 50 conversions so far, though that is only about a ten percent hit rate. Any DVD I convert goes into a box and into storage. The rest go into my downstairs media center. My library is shaking out to roughly 600 DVDs, a little over 200 Blu-Rays and 715 UV HDX titles. About half the Blu-Rays are duplicated on UV. After I finish doing this final round of conversions, I plan to rip everything I cannot convert to my media server. There is really no compromise involved in ripping DVDs. I have not decided whether to rip the Blu-Rays compressed, uncompressed or both yet. I don't have that many, so I can pretty much do whatever I want.
Now for a mini-rant of frustration over how well disc-to-digital actually works. Even two years into this thing, the bloody scanner software cannot identify most double-sided discs. That's a huge number of older DVDs that it simply cannot read. Then there's this crap where some studios make some movies eligible and other movies ineligible with no clear rhyme or reason. It is very frustrating to have to scan through hundreds of discs and get Not Eligible more than half the time when dealing with studios that are actually signed onto UV (I don't expect Disney to convert, greedy asshats that they are). MGM is the worst culprit, though I got Not Eligible on a decent number of Universal titles as well. Forget about converting Indiana Jones or James Bond, for instance.
Now for a mini-rant of frustration over how well disc-to-digital actually works. Even two years into this thing, the bloody scanner software cannot identify most double-sided discs. That's a huge number of older DVDs that it simply cannot read. Then there's this crap where some studios make some movies eligible and other movies ineligible with no clear rhyme or reason. It is very frustrating to have to scan through hundreds of discs and get Not Eligible more than half the time when dealing with studios that are actually signed onto UV (I don't expect Disney to convert, greedy asshats that they are). MGM is the worst culprit, though I got Not Eligible on a decent number of Universal titles as well. Forget about converting Indiana Jones or James Bond, for instance.
