Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

He best check the Oil Daily on those Rotary engines, as they drink oil, like men drink beer!
Oh, and hope you have deep pockets, cause the fuel consumption is dreadful, hence the high Vehicle Tax.

Other than that, it's a nice car.

 

I love them but a quick google shall highlight why RX8 depreciated so heavily. High tax, poor mpg, engine rebuilds, silly insurance due to how they class the engine size.

Still a lot of car for the money though, just keep back a bit for the rebuild.

 

TWENTY-FOUR TERABYTES OF HARD DISK!!!ONE



In the form of 3x 8TB Seagate Archive SMR disks. Since the BD player is in a different room to the main TV, I figured ripping the whole collection was a nice and lazy alternative to using physical media, with the added bonus that I can box them all up never to be seen again.

No delivery date stated on Dabs though, so I'm not holding out too much hope of actually receiving them. Worth a shot for ~£23/TB though.

 

Ohh nice, I have a similar storage setup for mine - peace of mind knowing plenty of space for BR rips.

 

I kept getting annoyed by seeing the microphone on my headset out of the corner of my eye, so decided to get something for my desk:



Just need to work out where's best to position it to get minimum sound capture of my typing...

 

Paint.

 

Bingo: peace of mind - lets me rip at an uncompromised level of quality without worrying about having to add more storage for a good long time... With handbrake at RF18 with DTS-HD passthrough, some films are weighing in at 30GB

Will end up having space for 3-400 films, and I can't see me ever accumulating that many, and I'd expect by the time 4k has caught on I'll be able to swap them out for 25TB disks

 

Oh no. Kronos. What happened?

Was it the courier?

 

But it still blows the mind a little to see 228bhp from a 1.3 litre engine, and I've always like the styling of the RX8. It's a little impractical for my needs, so I doubt I'd ever buy one, but I still like them.

 

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=177179&page=787

 

Mine are typically 1080p @ around 4gb depending on length of film.
TV shows I only keep 480P versions off unless it's something worthy like Game of Thrones.

Size: 21.76TB
Free: 16.97TB
Used: 21.66%

543 Movies
23 Stand-up Comedy
79 TV Shows - 2921 Episodes
15 Users

Slowly filling up.

 

I tend to have films around 8GB+ @ 1080p

 

This.

I, too, think that 4GB for a 1080p movie is quite small. Going down from 12.5 - 20+ MBit/s video streams on the original BluRay to less than 5 MBit/s is definitely a huge step down in picture quality. For personal use I wouldn't use anything below High@L4.1 presets in Handbrake, but that's just me. Especially with storage costs as low as they are right now I don't think there is any good reason, other than time-to-rip maybe, to limit yourself that strictly.

 

4GB does seem pretty low, certainly for an average. Unless the content is heavily biased to rendered animation, or there's lots of noise reduction going on, you could well find that 720p for the same file size would give a higher quality. What do you rip the soundtracks as?

I'm averaging at around 12-15GB, with the odd few coming in at ~6GB, usually animated films where I decided to only keep the AC3/DTS track. Then there's some of the older films with more grain than go the other way... the Indie Trilogy gobbled up ~70GB

 

The only films I keep at all these days are Pixar/Dreamworks ones which get played over and over again. I tend to watch a film once, maybe twice and then dispose of it.

My latest purchase, described by the seller as new ("A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging"):



I feel a case coming on...

 

Looks like it's been used as a dinner plate for the last few years..

 

Or an aiming platform for the yoghurt olympics...

 

You hope it's yoghurt!

Hope you get a result though, Nick.

 

Either way I won't touch it without my full hazmat suit on. It'll clean up just fine, and I only paid just over a tenner for it, but when I buy something that is advertised as being new I really don't want it to be second hand.

I'll see if I can squeeze a few quid back out of the seller.

 

I agree, at the end of the day you can't sell it as new when it's not and I wouldn't hesitate to open a case.

At least it is something which like you say can just be cleaned and it's not damaged...