For one, if you have small children discs become fragile items that wear out very quickly or get easily ruined. Also, ripping them to hard disk means that I can serve them anywhere in the house and on any device. Useful for things like MacBooks which still can't play BluRay discs. I can also view them on my iPhone or laptop while traveling if I want.
--------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Stan Zaske <[email protected]> wrote: > Optical drives are dog slow and that includes the speed of the door opening > and closing. Plus some games require that you have the disk in the drive and > did I mention that the door is slow. Swapping disks is such a pain... > > > > On 2/18/2010 9:41 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > >> I want to ask this for information purposes only...why bother ripping DVD >> and Blu-rays? I've done this...and frankly, I've lost interest in doing it. >> But I get the impression that some here are ripping multitudes of movies to >> magnetic media...I have a large collection of Blus and DVDs, but I don't >> watch anything frequently enough to need it online (like in my house). For >> new content, it does make some sense, though, if you don't want to own the >> content you an download it...but if I want to watch upstaris rather than >> down, then I just go get the disc...I'm not too lazy YET to do that...and >> it's way better than having an HD farm that sucking down juice 24/7 (it >> occurs to me that cheap HDs make this all too tempting to do, though, so I >> can get that). At least to me it is.... >> >> On 2/18/2010 10:23 AM, Stan Zaske wrote: >> >>> That would be cool for BD when I decide to take the plunge and buy a >>> BD-ROM. For DVD's I just have AnyDVD rip it to hardrive as an ISO. >>> >>> >>> On 2/17/2010 6:08 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> www.makemkv.com >>>> >>>> >>>> Maybe one of the coolest tools I've used in forever. Instant, no >>>> compression conversion of BD and DVD. If your running mce and your used to >>>> archiving your content to use the movie library (or I use Mediabrowser and >>>> MyTv) then this comes as one of the best tools I've seen in years. >>>> >>>> It just works. >>>> >>>> Sent via BlackBerry >>>> >>>> >>> >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 >>> 02:34:00 >>> >>> >> >
