The Borg MegaCube

Alien54 writes "Paramount Pictures this week revealed plans to release a DVD box set containing every single episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Called the 'Borg Megacube', the box set will include all seven seasons of TNG across 48 discs, thus collecting all the individual DVD sets into one package. As the name implies, the set comes in the form of a Borg cube. Due out at the beginning of November..."

Storage...

[SharpFang]

I guess if they used full DVD capacity (4-sided recording, 16G/disk) and some decent compression, they could fit it maybe in a typical 4 CD case.

But then it wouldn't have such a marketing impact. 4 DVD set? What's so special about that?

How long?

[Ceadda]

So, its making its appearance in Europe.. so that means it'll take what... 3? 4 hours for the bit-torrent links to start popping up to fresh encoded episodes in dvd quality with surround sound? They might be making a HUGE mistake not putting it out in more than one market. And you know they're gonna throw a fit when everone in the rest of the world gets pirate versions.

Re:Storage...

[SlamMan]

True, but most people don't like to deal with dual sided dvds. Easier to damage when there's data on both sides instead of a label on one, plus they just seem cheaper.

Thes should sell everything on a single hard disk

[Anonymous Coward]

I purchased the whole collection, 7 seasons - one time purchase, for $450+$40 tax. I ripped all episodes with linux Dvd rip to 330-350MB ogm files. About 13 episodes fit one DVD+-R. I put the whole collectiom
on a 80 GB 2.5 inch pocket firewire drive ($80 the box+$250 the drive). I also backed everything up on 14 DVD-Rs but I never use them, dvds are only for backup, the firewire disk is much more compact and easy to carry around. I can put it in my pocket, try that with the original 49 dvds or with the 14 backup dvds containing the ogm files!

The total cost of the project
$490+$80+$250=$820

The ripping lasted about one month. AND NO, I DONT SHARE THE EPS WITH ANYONE, THEY ARE EXCLUSIVELY FOR MY PERSONAL USE.

Re:Wrong way to think about

[LamerX]

I don't get it. TV's are ROUGHLY 320x240. Most TVs, even standard TVs are capable of much much more than that. The whole deal is that they are analog, and you don't ever get a single fixed resolution unless you're recieving a digital signal. I noticed that most DVD's run at 720x480 (widescreen). Now say a 3:4 TV is playing the DVD in letterbox on the screen. Typically, the black bars take up about half of the TV screen. That means that the DVD is cramming 480 lines of resolution into a screen that as you say should only be displaying about 120 lines (half of 240).

I seriously doubt that when I watch my TV at home, I'm watching 120 lines of video (losing over 300 lines of resolution). It seems obvious that DVD manufacutrers aren't going to encode video as low quality as 320x240. I seriously think it's stupid to rip any DVD into a resolution that low or else you're going to lose quality, AND you're going to reduce the file size to about half of what it should be for the original resolution.