ok heres my situation im getting a new apple tv soon. i have about 80 blurays ripping and encoding in 720p will cost money and take time bcuz of the type of macbook i have its not a workhorse. does anyone know the specs on itunes hd movies? mainly codec and bit rate. I may have to re purchase all my movies again but from itunes. what should i do?
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help i dont know what to do 720p or 1080p
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The only cost you should have is the cost of an external blu-ray drive and you can probably find a decent BD-ROM drive for about $50-$75. I rip and encode my blu-ray disks with a 2.0 gHz C2D Mac Mini--never will be confused with a workhorse--but it does the job just fine. My 720p encodes generally take 8-10 hrs so I'll rip a disk using MakeMKV (takes 45 min to an hours) and then set up the encode to run in HB overnight. Do one a day and yeah, it'll take almost 3 months but will definitely be a lot cheaper than buying them all through iTunes (avg $15 per movie = $1200).
ill also need at least a 1 or 2 tb drive. my only gripe with doing it is the time it takes. If i can find a bd-rom drive for prices you stated ill go for it.