How do u store ur DRAMAS :)!
How do u store ur DRAMAS :)!
how do you guys store your dramas???? when you have dramas that are like 16gigs in size where do you put theM>???
i was thinking dvds but then i can't play them on certain dvd players .
the hard drive is good for a short while, but my hd is not big enough only 200gig.
any tips or tricks please share ty ty... )
i was thinking dvds but then i can't play them on certain dvd players .
the hard drive is good for a short while, but my hd is not big enough only 200gig.
any tips or tricks please share ty ty... )
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Watch and delete. If it's good, I used to burn them on CD, but recently got DVD burner, so store in dual layer DVDs. I don't watch dorama on TV anyway, just store them as avi, and watch on my computer.
I need to convert CDs into DVDs... I have piles of them, but only maybe 40 or 50 DVD's worth. But maybe I should wait for BluRay, so it's only 5 DVDs
I need to convert CDs into DVDs... I have piles of them, but only maybe 40 or 50 DVD's worth. But maybe I should wait for BluRay, so it's only 5 DVDs
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i have 8 external ones i buy new ones when it runs out. and i think its finally about time that that disc storage made an improvement, but right now bluray and hd-dvd burner/players are too expensive.
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I store AVIs onto DVD-ISO formatted media. MPEG-2s are stored on DVD-UDF. Some of my discs are DVD-video (i.e. playable on a regular DVD player) that I've mastered and given out to friends. Right now, I have twelve drawers of 100 DVD discs each, so it comes out to 5.4TB of dramas ((100 discs*4.5GB)*12 drawers).
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i think so too. new technologies are quite expensive at first. just give it a few years like a year or two prices will go down eventually. i myself don't download dramas. i just hate the waiting time. sometimes it can take forever to download the whole series. i think its just a waste of time. so what i do is i just watch it online from youtube or other similar website. if i like the series then i might thik of buying it later when i have the money.
I bought an output hard disk especially for my downloads, when they r finished I convert them into DVDs , then delete them from computer, I always make sure 2 make enough free space in every hard disk, I can't imagine a hard disk with no free space!!!
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Funny you mention this... Here's my old banner I used to use here:cutekid wrote:i myself don't download dramas. i just hate the waiting time. sometimes it can take forever to download the whole series. i think its just a waste of time.
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I use a program called "TMPGenc Xpress" to convert the avi filesinto MPEG's.
Then i use a DVD authoring program like "TMPGenc DVD Author" to make it a single DVD file, then use a burning prog like "Nero" to burn it onto my DVD and watch it on my DVD player....
Yes, it is time consuming but atleast you can store it as a DVD watchable on most players and PC's.
My HD is 40GB, not large to handle many video files, so i purchased a 300GB external HD to temporarily store those files.
Note: You can store around 6 episodes of normal sized dramas (as released on D-addicts) onto a single DVD-/+R (4.7GB..? i think it was) which only takes 2 DVD to fit a whole drama serie. However, the quality will be a little better than VCD's.
If you want to put DVD quality, you'd be thinking around 2 episodes on one DVD which would obviously take about 6 DVD's in total for one drama series....
Ofcourse, if you have a dual burner and dual layer DVD's, it may be possible to fit the whole drama onto one DVD....(dual layer DVD's are too expensive for me so i havn't tried it despite having a dual layer burner^^)
Anyways, "if" you need help, PM me since i probably won't be following this thread
(and please don't ask me to upload the progs....you should make the efforts to find a copy on the internet somewhere (or from P2P like torrent) or buy them^^
Then i use a DVD authoring program like "TMPGenc DVD Author" to make it a single DVD file, then use a burning prog like "Nero" to burn it onto my DVD and watch it on my DVD player....
Yes, it is time consuming but atleast you can store it as a DVD watchable on most players and PC's.
My HD is 40GB, not large to handle many video files, so i purchased a 300GB external HD to temporarily store those files.
Note: You can store around 6 episodes of normal sized dramas (as released on D-addicts) onto a single DVD-/+R (4.7GB..? i think it was) which only takes 2 DVD to fit a whole drama serie. However, the quality will be a little better than VCD's.
If you want to put DVD quality, you'd be thinking around 2 episodes on one DVD which would obviously take about 6 DVD's in total for one drama series....
Ofcourse, if you have a dual burner and dual layer DVD's, it may be possible to fit the whole drama onto one DVD....(dual layer DVD's are too expensive for me so i havn't tried it despite having a dual layer burner^^)
Anyways, "if" you need help, PM me since i probably won't be following this thread
(and please don't ask me to upload the progs....you should make the efforts to find a copy on the internet somewhere (or from P2P like torrent) or buy them^^
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i have a 200gb external hard drive and i thought i'd be enough, but now i'm currently making dvd out of all the series..... lots of time involved... but since i'm able to watch them on my tv, now i can force my boyfriend to watch them with me
this is how it looks now.........
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this is how it looks now.........
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Burn them as avis.. that's roughly 6 ep/dvd (i usually watch kdramas). I just like keeping them... My dvd player supports avi and srt files so it's fine if i feel like watching them on the tv too.
My internal's only 70GB .. but I have 2 external HD.. one 500 and the other around 200 GB
My internal's only 70GB .. but I have 2 external HD.. one 500 and the other around 200 GB
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I have 3 external hard drives
500gb - doramas
300gb - Jpop related (ha, mostly JE related)
200gb - anime
And plus my internal harddrive
I also have about 200 burnt data DVD's and about 200CD's, but I'm re-downloading some shows that I burnt on the cds and converting them to DVDs.
But that's after 3 years of watching. Can't wait till blu-ray becomes cheaper.
I guess I just don't have the heart to delete something I've worked hard to download.
500gb - doramas
300gb - Jpop related (ha, mostly JE related)
200gb - anime
And plus my internal harddrive
I also have about 200 burnt data DVD's and about 200CD's, but I'm re-downloading some shows that I burnt on the cds and converting them to DVDs.
But that's after 3 years of watching. Can't wait till blu-ray becomes cheaper.
I guess I just don't have the heart to delete something I've worked hard to download.
HOLY!!! OMG!! LuCKY!!!! I only have a 250gb ex Hard Drive. :[ Doh..mhaellix wrote:I have 3 external hard drives
500gb - doramas
300gb - Jpop related (ha, mostly JE related)
200gb - anime
And plus my internal harddrive
I also have about 200 burnt data DVD's and about 200CD's, but I'm re-downloading some shows that I burnt on the cds and converting them to DVDs.
But that's after 3 years of watching. Can't wait till blu-ray becomes cheaper.
I guess I just don't have the heart to delete something I've worked hard to download.
I just burn them straight onto DVD...most of them play perfectly fine on a standalone DivX player. Only problem is the subtitles don't turn out very well, and you kinda have to squint to read them. I also have a lot of incomplete dramas on my HD which, for some reason I started downloading several episodes but never felt like watching them.....
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Mainly watch them and delete them.............sometime I burn them on disc to watch on my flat screen tv................Ever since we got that TV my mom have been nagging me to burn all my movies and series on dvd so we can watch them together [well, of course I translate the series for them.....thanks god for Fansub...i can translate it with english sub] Only thing that suck about this it require lots of time to encode english sub to hardsub then making title menu then burning it on DVD.............well, of course at the request of my mom. I manage to still have about 60gb left out of a 180gb hard drive......well more like 140gb cause the other 40gb was used for music and schoolworks......and still in the progress of burning to DVD.
that's a great one!groink wrote:Funny you mention this... Here's my old banner I used to use here:cutekid wrote:i myself don't download dramas. i just hate the waiting time. sometimes it can take forever to download the whole series. i think its just a waste of time.
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I burn them off to DVD and pretty much forget them. I'm poorly organized. But every half year or so, I try to organize them a bit ...
But based on my purchases, I should have 2000+ DVD-Rs and it's roughly 1/3 anime (shrinking), 1/3 H!P and jpop, and 1/4 drama (and growing).
I'm thinking that I should also start to replace my VCD jDrama collection with DVD's. I might just toss my VCD cDramas, they were mostly crap anyways.
My advice is to burn them on DVD-R's and buy a player that supports avi's, they're pretty common and competitively priced. From 50 for the low end and 200 for the Oppo
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8thSin wrote:Watch and delete. If it's good, I used to burn them on CD, but recently got DVD burner, so store in dual layer DVDs. I don't watch dorama on TV anyway, just store them as avi, and watch on my computer.
I need to convert CDs into DVDs... I have piles of them, but only maybe 40 or 50 DVD's worth. But maybe I should wait for BluRay, so it's only 5 DVDs
it's like watching television, you watch it, and you never see it again, so i watch them, and after a while, i delete them. If only their DVDs were subbed in english, instead of in only chinese and korean, i would go buy them.
to 8thSin: How do you convert CDs to DVDs. You use a certain program don't you?
I have no idea, I haven't start converting yetmun78 wrote: to 8thSin: How do you convert CDs to DVDs. You use a certain program don't you?
I don't burn VCDs, I only watch in computer, so I store AVI files as data CD. I would think I would import all the files into the hard disc and then just burn them into DVD.
There are a few ways to convert VCDs/SVCDs to DVDs. One way would be to extract the DAT files out of the CDs, patch them to be MPEG compliant using VCDGear, and then burn them to DVD-ISO discs and play them like they were AVI files. Another way would be to turn the VCDs and SVCDs to DVD-video discs using DVDPatcher and the instructions I've included in the software:8thSin wrote:I have no idea, I haven't start converting yetmun78 wrote: to 8thSin: How do you convert CDs to DVDs. You use a certain program don't you?
I don't burn VCDs, I only watch in computer, so I store AVI files as data CD. I would think I would import all the files into the hard disc and then just burn them into DVD.
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I would love to ckeck your collection.Riroi wrote:I've got over 600GB dorama series on external HDD, over 200 GB anime series on my pc, over 500GB anime series on dvd and around 25GB of JPOP & KPOP on my laptop.
I store my j/k-dramas in an external 320GB hard disk and when the disk is almost full I burn them in DVDs.
Also have another 250GB internal hard disk for anime, music and movies
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I'm the third one in the line with the funny hat and the sheepskin coat.
I store on DVDs
I'm the third one in the line with the funny hat and the sheepskin coat.
I store on DVDs
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It would break my heart to just delete the dramas I spent a long time downloading. Therefore, I burn them on DVD, lend them to friends, use them for trading etc...
I have about 60 to 70 Korean dramas stored on DVD. I never counted my Japanese dramas, but there should be just as many, if not more. So I probably have around 300 or so DVDs... and that's in addition to my 400 GB HD that's always full.
I have about 60 to 70 Korean dramas stored on DVD. I never counted my Japanese dramas, but there should be just as many, if not more. So I probably have around 300 or so DVDs... and that's in addition to my 400 GB HD that's always full.
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I guess how you store you doramas has a lot to do with how you play them. I used to burn to playable DVDs and then watch on a player but that was too time consuming so I cut out the middle-man, the DVD player. I connected my PC to my TV so I can play the files from my hard drive or the disks I archive them on.
The only thing I didn't like about the set up at first was that I didn't have a remote control. That was easy enough to fix with a USB wireless handheld mouse (basically the same gadget many people use when doing a presentation from a pc). I found one for just under 30 bucks and since I already had the cables to connect the TV and PC, this was all it cost me to set things up. In this way I've been able to play my drama files on my TV without having to move my lazy butt from the couch.
I have another configuration in mind but I'm waiting until after I move to set it up. My TV is getting old but I'm not going to replace it with another TV. I'm going to get one of those projectors for the computer and I reccomend the same for anyone considering a big screen TV. Projectors are available with a regular video input so you can run TV through it as well and the size of the screen will be as big as the wall space you project onto.
For those with a lower budget that aren't very tech savvy, you might already have everything you need to try this. If you already have a laptop (that came with s-video and audio cables) and a TV (with s-video input) just plug one into the other and go. Both are pretty common but it just doesn't occur to many people that they can connect the two. Pretty convenient for those living in dorms.
The only thing I didn't like about the set up at first was that I didn't have a remote control. That was easy enough to fix with a USB wireless handheld mouse (basically the same gadget many people use when doing a presentation from a pc). I found one for just under 30 bucks and since I already had the cables to connect the TV and PC, this was all it cost me to set things up. In this way I've been able to play my drama files on my TV without having to move my lazy butt from the couch.
I have another configuration in mind but I'm waiting until after I move to set it up. My TV is getting old but I'm not going to replace it with another TV. I'm going to get one of those projectors for the computer and I reccomend the same for anyone considering a big screen TV. Projectors are available with a regular video input so you can run TV through it as well and the size of the screen will be as big as the wall space you project onto.
For those with a lower budget that aren't very tech savvy, you might already have everything you need to try this. If you already have a laptop (that came with s-video and audio cables) and a TV (with s-video input) just plug one into the other and go. Both are pretty common but it just doesn't occur to many people that they can connect the two. Pretty convenient for those living in dorms.
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yup I am a watcher and deleter too. But I am thinking about just getting a second hard drive. cuz mine rite now is only 80 GB and thats how much storage my ipod has and I thought that was a little sad lol i might also get a third hardrive lol for like music alone or sumthing haha i am addicted to space muahahahaa
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Easy. They seat on a shelf and I can admire them all day. Actually, I think I haven't even watched 1/3rd of all my dramas... I am more addicted to collecting and downloading than watching. Asian dramas are worse than Pokemon...kobe23 wrote:I think for you, it's not how you store your drama's, but how you store your DVD'sNéa Vanille wrote:So I probably have around 300 or so DVDs...:
You might want to look into the new HDD coming out from Hitachi, it's a one terabyte HDD. Not that expensive at $400 retail (40cents / GB!) which actually makes it cheaper than many DVD-DL's!cebusnacker wrote:yup I am a watcher and deleter too. But I am thinking about just getting a second hard drive. cuz mine rite now is only 80 GB and thats how much storage my ipod has and I thought that was a little sad lol i might also get a third hardrive lol for like music alone or sumthing haha i am addicted to space muahahahaa
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we have the same habit, Nea Vanille! im more addicted in downloading and collecting dramas than actually watching them! this winter dorama season is the exception, im now watching 5 series! on the topic, i used to have vcds and sadly most of the cds have deteriorated. i ended up redownloading the series, and now i burn them in high quality dvdrs like taiyo yuden, benq and verbatim. as of now, i have 500dvds(including the backups), and i have stored them in dry boxes to avoid the degradation of the dvds.
I dont delete my dramas!! I store them in my 3 HDs..They'll full now.. I just ordered a 500GB HD..should arrive any day now!! Woot! Woot! Actually Im downloading deprived cos my HDs are full! Have no heart to burn them.. besides it works out cheaper to buy HD rather than DVDs..and last longer too~Easier to transfer.. I hate the waiting it I want to burn cds/dvds~
i have a couple external hard drives... so far, i just save them there after i finish watching an entire drama. i have over 500 GB worth of kdramas and variety shows (x-man, star golden bell, ya shim man man, etc.). also, i store the ones i like on dvd to pass onto my parents or friends.
oh, btw... i do buy many kdrama dvds. i have a collection of at least 50 titles so far, maybe more since i haven't actually counted. i don't buy as many as i used to, but i will buy a drama that i really enjoyed. i prefer to buy the actual Korean versions instead of YA Entertainment's (yesasia) because they include extra features/specials. i know YA can't always get the extra features due to licensing issues, so it's not really their fault.
oh, btw... i do buy many kdrama dvds. i have a collection of at least 50 titles so far, maybe more since i haven't actually counted. i don't buy as many as i used to, but i will buy a drama that i really enjoyed. i prefer to buy the actual Korean versions instead of YA Entertainment's (yesasia) because they include extra features/specials. i know YA can't always get the extra features due to licensing issues, so it's not really their fault.
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I can't get uit over my heart to delete them, so I store them on external hd's
At the moment I have 2.7 terrabyte of drama's and anime on my hd's. It's getting a bit embarassing, but I don't want to delete so I'm stuck with it.
I once though of writing them to dvd, but with this amount of data there is just no beginning. I just buy a new hd when my current disks a full.
At the moment I have 2.7 terrabyte of drama's and anime on my hd's. It's getting a bit embarassing, but I don't want to delete so I'm stuck with it.
I once though of writing them to dvd, but with this amount of data there is just no beginning. I just buy a new hd when my current disks a full.
Yea I burn all mine, I have like over 20 spindles or cd in my rooms, But i was thinking of just buying HDs and store them in there. But have been to lazy to go and buy one haha.
I don't like burning em anymore takes a while and it might get corrupted.
right now i have 400g on my computer and only 3 gigs free haha.
too much crap. Oh and theres always a problem with having too muich media to watch i always find myself spending a crapload of time thinking and deciding on what to wtach haha.
I don't like burning em anymore takes a while and it might get corrupted.
right now i have 400g on my computer and only 3 gigs free haha.
too much crap. Oh and theres always a problem with having too muich media to watch i always find myself spending a crapload of time thinking and deciding on what to wtach haha.
I store my drama temporarily on my HDD and then burn them as is on DVD-Rs. I don't want to spend the time for conversions. But I don't like watching things on my computer monitor, so went I out to buy my HDTV I made sure it had a DVI port. That way my TV becomes a second monitor to my computer and I can watch my shows directly from my computer on a beautiful widescreen HDTV.
The bad thing about this is that now my video files that weren't HQ but looked good on a standard-def TV look like garbage now... lol
The bad thing about this is that now my video files that weren't HQ but looked good on a standard-def TV look like garbage now... lol
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Sugoi! And I was the one thinking I was the most obsessive person when it comes to dramas
I download them on an external drive 189GB and burn dramas on DVDs, but I keep some dramas even after burning them on DVDs if I find myself attached to them (like Nodame which I've been watching all the time). I find myself lazy when it comes to making DVDs but I have to do it anyway because I like to share my drama with my friends (& I don't delete them until my friends bring back the DVDs). They take a LOT of time to download so I don't understand people who just delete dramas
I download them on an external drive 189GB and burn dramas on DVDs, but I keep some dramas even after burning them on DVDs if I find myself attached to them (like Nodame which I've been watching all the time). I find myself lazy when it comes to making DVDs but I have to do it anyway because I like to share my drama with my friends (& I don't delete them until my friends bring back the DVDs). They take a LOT of time to download so I don't understand people who just delete dramas
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u know what i do?
my computer has a tendency to crash with an overload of dLs so I have to delete them.
...but not until I saved them onto DVDRs. There is no way I'm just going to delete hours of waiting!
I have more anime than dramas at the moments.
and seems more like I've watched more dramas than dLd them too.
I've been thinkn of another way of storing these lovelys and .. an external harddrive sounds pretty great to me. Just .. need to save up for that. heh heh
my computer has a tendency to crash with an overload of dLs so I have to delete them.
...but not until I saved them onto DVDRs. There is no way I'm just going to delete hours of waiting!
I have more anime than dramas at the moments.
and seems more like I've watched more dramas than dLd them too.
I've been thinkn of another way of storing these lovelys and .. an external harddrive sounds pretty great to me. Just .. need to save up for that. heh heh
Ya same here. My torrents are going night and day yet with work and school, Ive got a growing stack of DVDs of awesome drama and anime i havent watched yet. soo much Ive had to create and organized spreadsheet of everything just to keep track of it allkawaiineemei wrote: I have more anime than dramas at the moments.
and seems more like I've watched more dramas than dLd them too.
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