I saw a meme suggesting a crossover between Liam Neeson's character from Taken and Keanu Reeves character from John Wick...
It sounded awesome, but then I thought it could be even better if they reintroduced Natalie Portman as an adult Matilda from Leon: The Professional.
Thoughts?
Assassins
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eh people aren't very comfortable with the idea of psychics these days. let alone telekinesis
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Once we move the screen in our hands into our eyes we really won't be that far off.
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S_hift wrote:eh people aren't very comfortable with the idea of psychics these days. let alone telekinesis
Wrong "Taken".
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Sorry, can't give you my opinion...I'm not familiar with Taken or John Wick. Just The Professional. I don't get to watch too many movies anymore, due to pulling some long hours sometimes. Have to think here....the last time I went to a theater was I think Avatar. Mostly due to them having so many choices now in where you can watch a movie in the comforts of your own home. I also have a very, very large collection of movies. Few thousand on VHS that I'm slowly converting over to DVD format to make space, but also loading them up on USB sticks or SSD's so I can put them on USB hubs via a computer I'm setting up as a server. That way I can go through my home network and select a movie to watch via the hubs.
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You can't afford a single SSD large enough to hold a library of low definition movies?
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They don't make one large enough. When I say I have a large amount of movies, I mean very large. The picture is what they call a china cabinet. I don't have this particular one, mine are a lot nicer. This is to just show you the size of the two I own.
http://www.antiquepurveyor.com/producti ... a-6606.jpg
I have VHS tapes loaded into these 3 rows deep and full from the inside top part all the way down into the bottom shelves. 95% of these tapes have at least 3 movies on each in recorded EP speed format, and I have two of these china cabinets, and some tapes in boxes. So when I say thousands, I really mean thousands.
As for the resolution, it's about 200i to 220i off the VHS tapes, but I'm actually taking care of that by converting it to digital before coping it to dvd, or loading it up onto a USB RAM stick or SSD converting it to 780p. It's not 1080p or 4K, but it's a lot better than it was. I'm using this program from this site:
https://www.videohelp.com/software/Avisynth
Although, if I wanted to see it in 1080p, I could off the DVD, due to purchasing an upscale DVD player that will show it in 1080p with it's up conversion. Thing cost me over $600. Cheaper than the listing I'm showing you:
https://www.ebay.com/p/Panasonic-DMR-EZ ... r/66925382
http://www.antiquepurveyor.com/producti ... a-6606.jpg
I have VHS tapes loaded into these 3 rows deep and full from the inside top part all the way down into the bottom shelves. 95% of these tapes have at least 3 movies on each in recorded EP speed format, and I have two of these china cabinets, and some tapes in boxes. So when I say thousands, I really mean thousands.
As for the resolution, it's about 200i to 220i off the VHS tapes, but I'm actually taking care of that by converting it to digital before coping it to dvd, or loading it up onto a USB RAM stick or SSD converting it to 780p. It's not 1080p or 4K, but it's a lot better than it was. I'm using this program from this site:
https://www.videohelp.com/software/Avisynth
Although, if I wanted to see it in 1080p, I could off the DVD, due to purchasing an upscale DVD player that will show it in 1080p with it's up conversion. Thing cost me over $600. Cheaper than the listing I'm showing you:
https://www.ebay.com/p/Panasonic-DMR-EZ ... r/66925382
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Let's do the math, shall we?
I'm not sure if you meant thousands of VHF tapes or thousands of movies, so I'm gonna assume 3000 movies.
I dunno if you're burning 1 DVD per movie or cranking each DVD full of data, so that's 1000-3000 DVDs.
The data format on the vhf tapes is irrelevant, as you are upscaling them to 720p, which will probably fit about 1.8 GB/hour. Well round up to 2 GB for easy/conservative maths.
Also, for easy/conservative maths, we'll assume each movieis 2 hours.
2*2*3000=12,000 GB.
1000 blank DVDs cost around $100, today.
A single 12 TB HDD costs around $500, today.
A single 12 TB SSD costs around $2500, today.
You've already spent $600 on the vhf-dvd converter.
But what I really wanna know is when you find the time to copy all of those movies, let alone watch them?
PS: Unless you wear coke bottle lenses, I highly doubt you'll ever be satisfied with upscaling 220i to 720p.
I mean, sure, it'll be less pixelated than 220i, but it won't be crisp. It'll be blurred. Every sex scene is gonna look like they lubed the camera instead of the porn star.
I'm not sure if you meant thousands of VHF tapes or thousands of movies, so I'm gonna assume 3000 movies.
I dunno if you're burning 1 DVD per movie or cranking each DVD full of data, so that's 1000-3000 DVDs.
The data format on the vhf tapes is irrelevant, as you are upscaling them to 720p, which will probably fit about 1.8 GB/hour. Well round up to 2 GB for easy/conservative maths.
Also, for easy/conservative maths, we'll assume each movieis 2 hours.
2*2*3000=12,000 GB.
1000 blank DVDs cost around $100, today.
A single 12 TB HDD costs around $500, today.
A single 12 TB SSD costs around $2500, today.
You've already spent $600 on the vhf-dvd converter.
But what I really wanna know is when you find the time to copy all of those movies, let alone watch them?
PS: Unless you wear coke bottle lenses, I highly doubt you'll ever be satisfied with upscaling 220i to 720p.
I mean, sure, it'll be less pixelated than 220i, but it won't be crisp. It'll be blurred. Every sex scene is gonna look like they lubed the camera instead of the porn star.
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I've been coping movies on VHS since 1982. Most have 3 movies each on them. I have thousands of VHS tapes, with thousands of movies.
I'm CC'ing them to a DVD for a hard copy. CC'ing them to smaller RAM sticks, or SSD's is on purpose due to life expectancy on the chips, in which when something goes bad, the WHOLE chip goes. So it's easier to just re-copy the movies from their DVD back on to a smaller RAM or SSD that's on a switch.
It doesn't matter when I have time to watch them. The thing is when I want to watch them, I have many choices to do so, so does the people staying over.
As for when I have the time to do this, I do this every day or night, even if it's only a couple of movies. The thing is, it's getting done, and I'm updating things to move out of how past things were done.
As for resolutions, you already watch things on the tube that are in 220p or i, even things on cable aren't shown in high resolutions, but you still watch them because that's what is being shown. I don't have any complaints, why should I. I'm taking a low resolution movie and up scaling it to the best resolution I can, and moving it to a better hard format in order to use it in a better way.
The only one complaining here is you, why? Jealous? LOL!
I'm CC'ing them to a DVD for a hard copy. CC'ing them to smaller RAM sticks, or SSD's is on purpose due to life expectancy on the chips, in which when something goes bad, the WHOLE chip goes. So it's easier to just re-copy the movies from their DVD back on to a smaller RAM or SSD that's on a switch.
It doesn't matter when I have time to watch them. The thing is when I want to watch them, I have many choices to do so, so does the people staying over.
As for when I have the time to do this, I do this every day or night, even if it's only a couple of movies. The thing is, it's getting done, and I'm updating things to move out of how past things were done.
As for resolutions, you already watch things on the tube that are in 220p or i, even things on cable aren't shown in high resolutions, but you still watch them because that's what is being shown. I don't have any complaints, why should I. I'm taking a low resolution movie and up scaling it to the best resolution I can, and moving it to a better hard format in order to use it in a better way.
The only one complaining here is you, why? Jealous? LOL!
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I watch 1080p, though.
You're absolutely correct that when I watch DTV over air, it's most likely 320x240 upscaled to 1080p. But I rarely do this.
Usually, I'm streaming 1080p video or waiting for my data throttling to reset.
I do have a DVD player on my boat, and would love to have a collection of DVDs to watch... But I've seen all of the DVDs that I own, thus see no reason to keep them.
My TV also has a USB port, and can play videos from a flash drive, so if I had a collection like yours, I'd probably copy it to thumb drives.