ECEC Wrote:Can you rip your own 3D blurays and playback (whether in Power DVD or TMT) from a server? If so, how big are the files (I'm assuming you couldn't compress them or anything)?
Only decent way to do it is to rip the 3D Blu Rays to ISOs, then mount those ISOs in a way that PowerDVD and TMT think its a disk when you want to play them. You end up with ISO files that are full Blu Ray size- like 40gb on average.
I did that when I first got my TV but there is no easy way to make it so you can play the ISOs from a remote easily, and I hate using a mouse and keyboard for my HTPC. If you try to rip the ISOs to a single file you end up just making Half SBS mkvs anyway, as Full SBS mkvs (as in single MKVs that are 1080p 3D) cannot be played back properly no matter what software you use.
After a lot of back and forth viewing I think that 720p 3D (as in half SBS files) when they are done right are like 95% as good as the full disks without any of that ISO mounting trouble. DirectTV is completely happy pushing 3D content at that res, so I am not gonna kill myself for better.
Plus there is the whole issue that most of the best 3D titles (Avatar, How to Train Your Dragon, etc.) are only available with certain 3D tvs. If you did just buy a 3D Samsung (and not a 3D Panasonic) you don't even have the ABILITY to buy the Avatar 3D disk separately to play on your Samsung till 2012 (unless you pay a couple hundred on ebay)!!!!! While every 3D movie released on Blu Ray so far is on the Usenet in Half SBS form waiting to get played.
I am skirting close to the forum rules here so I won't tell you HOW to get those files in the open (PM me for details), but suffice to say that the only happy 3D TV owners are those who are super rich (and can buy a $300 Avatar disk) and those who pirate...