What Happen to CD-Helper.com?

[lordsmurf]

Originally Posted by lando786

I still keep in touch with a couple guys KidneyBoy and Rob (he has a youtube channel now)

Tell them to join here. I remember Kidneyboy.

Originally Posted by rockman666

I can't believe how long its been gone. It seems like yesterday......that's kinda what happens when you get old
mostly because I haven't had much reason to trade. It's hard to find stuff that I'm looking for

The era of streaming and torrents is to "blame", because lots of what we used to scrimp and scrounge for, in any quality, is now available fully released, sometimes even restored. And of course, that's not really a bad thing. There's still reason to trade, as not everything is available, and it still happens quite a bit, but less so now that the 1990s and 2000s.

Originally Posted by lando786

PSX ISO Collection.
lol now its just one fast trip to an emulation site and it's all there.

I think gaming has shifted a lot, too. PSX is not seen as vintage, just old. I've seen large downloads of the old ISOs available, but those seems unpopular due to size alone.

Originally Posted by rockman666

Yeah, back then everything was on physical media so we all had rooms in our houses full of JUST discs. Now, I probably have 50 discs TOTAL in my house and everything else is on external hard drives as ISOs

Me: Discs in closet, ISOs on drives, streaming to whole house via WDTVs.

[rockman666]

Originally Posted by lordsmurf

Me: Discs in closet, ISOs on drives, streaming to whole house via WDTVs.

I'm with you on that.....my entire collection is on NAS drives (I've got 7 of the 12tb devices just for the DVD video stuff) and I stream it all through the house using WDTV, BoxeeBox and KDLinks devices. It's a beautiful thing not having to look for discs anymore

[lordsmurf]

Originally Posted by rockman666

I'm with you on that.....my entire collection is on NAS drives (I've got 7 of the 12tb devices just for the DVD video stuff) and I stream it all through the house using WDTV, BoxeeBox and KDLinks devices. It's a beautiful thing not having to look for discs anymore

I really like the menu of shows viewable on TV.

"Hmm.... do I feel like re-run of Get Smart? Nah. Too corny right now."
< Looks some more >
"Maybe something newer like NCIS? Nah, too serious."
< Looks some more >
"I feel sciency right now. Hmmm... how about that science documentary I keep meaning to watch? Also too serious..."
< Looks some more >
"I know! Star Wars!"
< Looks some more >
"Ah, Clone Wars. Perfect!"

Total time: 2-3 minutes sitting in my recliner with remote in hand.

All without having to dig around, get sidetracked when I can't find the disc I want, and getting frustrated.

It's like having my own TV network in-house.

[rockman666]

Originally Posted by lordsmurf

I really like the menu of shows viewable on TV.

"Hmm.... do I feel like re-run of Get Smart? Nah. Too corny right now."
< Looks some more >
"Maybe something newer like NCIS? Nah, too serious."
< Looks some more >
"I feel sciency right now. Hmmm... how about that science documentary I keep meaning to watch? Also too serious..."
< Looks some more >
"I know! Star Wars!"
< Looks some more >
"Ah, Clone Wars. Perfect!"

Total time: 2-3 minutes sitting in my recliner with remote in hand.

All without having to dig around, get sidetracked when I can't find the disc I want, and getting frustrated.

It's like having my own TV network in-house.

Exactly right. I have all of my stuff broken down by category too, each NAS device holds similar content broken down by cartoons, movies, tv shows, wrestling etc.....also, everything in alphabetized with sub folders #-Z, some stuff I have in its own folders if I have like 20 discs of a certain show just so its not crowding a particular letter in the alphabet. I just basically point my media player to the root directory of each device and when I boot it up, ALL the directories are right there to sift through. So my media player basically shows these at startup all as ISO files and everything has full menu support except the blu-ray ISOs
Cartoons (#-M)
Cartoons (N-Z)
Movies (#-H)
Movies (I-Z)
Blu-ray #-H)
Blu-ray (I-Z)
TV Shows
Music
Wrestling 1
Wrestling 2

Truly a space saver and most importantly, a time saver

[davidflecha17]

You can find all the old games on archive.org. They all work great on the shield tv.

[BiG]

Originally Posted by rockman666

Big, good to see you bro. Welcome to the elite forum that's keeping the past alive

Just stopping by to knock the dust off of this old thread. Hope y'all are doing well and staying safe & healthy!