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Originally Posted by DMelby
DVDs and Blu-ray discs can be transferred to a hard drive with a variety of available programs - similar to transferring music from a CD. The quality is superior to streaming video methods as the bitrate of, for example, blurays are 30-40 mbps compared to just 4-5 for HD streaming such as itunes or netflix. Even 4k over netflix maxes at something like 15mbps versus 50-60 from an actual 4k disc. Once the files, in a format such as mkv, are on a server such as the ACS, then a program like plex or infuse can be used to play them on an apple tv. These programs on the apple tv pretty much look like a personalized netflix, more or less, with cover art and metadata displayed.
I couldn't believe how much better rips sound through the ACS - much better than a purpose built computer I designed and built just for ripping CDs.
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Just now seeing your response. Thanks for the detail. All new concepts to me. I still find it fascinating that the ACS10 rips sound better than your purpose built computer rips. Makes me re-think adding ACS all over again.
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