

Most of the time I'm interested in simply watching the movie. If I want the extras and all that, I'll pull it off the shelf. This saves space on the hard drive and gives me what I want in a backup.the movie. I make movie only ISOs of all my BD movies. But, you want a format that's easily burned to disc when media becomes cheaper. You were interested in m2ts files because it gets rid of all the previews, extras, etc which is not a bad goal for your backups. May I point out that had I wanted to steal rentals, which I do not and have never rented a movie in my life, I would not need to continue this thread I already have the ability to copy movies to hdd and watch them from there. When they come down I wish to do as I have done for the DVDs but don't yet understand the encoding process (though I have read the two guides here five times!) and so, until I learn more I wish to know which format benefits me most, ISO or m2ts, rather than duplicate my efforts again for no reason. Both have been archived onto a hdd because blanks are unreasonably priced. The originals (but for one) are in pristine condition and will stay that way.

Please allow me this: I own about 700 DVDs. I got it just for futureproofing.The type of questions your asking are usually those asked by people who have either downloaded a BD-rip or have rented a Blu-Ray disk and are trying to make a copyOf course! That is a reasonable assumption as I am sure most of the lurkers here are of roguish intent. Note however that actually PLAYING Ultra HD Blu-ray discs involves a lot of system requirements that very few of today's systems meet. If yours is like that, then installing a standard slimline drive may not look quite right, and I've never tried to transplant a faceplate from one drive onto another.īut if you go the external route, I ended up springing for the Pioneer BDR-XD06J-UHD, which is an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive, just because I figured there might not even be another optical media format after this one, so I may as well get one that handles basically everything. Since you didn't specify WHICH specific Inspiron 5000 Series model you have, I can't see what the current drive looks like, but sometimes Dell adds a custom faceplate to match the color/curvature of the system. I agree an external drive is probably the way to go, but if you want to look at internal drives, the slimline optical drive form factor is a standard, and the instructions for removing the existing drive would be in your system manual that you can find on.
