On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, 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....
I have just started to rip DVD's and toss them on my PC. With Tivo Desktop plus my TiVo can transfer them over and I can watch very easilly. Simple things like the 8 second rewind and the tivo remote controlling it is worth it for me.
Christopher Fisk
