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You should rip your DVDs and store them on a hard drive connected to a Roku/WDTV/whatever...

• snarkyturtle 12y ago
  That would require more work though. It's like telling someone to rip all your CDs and put it on your phone instead of streaming it from Spotify.
  • booruguru 12y ago
    People don't rip CDs anymore? You can't depend on a streaming service to stream your favorite content forever. Also, you don't actually "own" your DRM-riddled digital downloads from Amazon, iTunes, etc. What's more, CDs and Blu-rays offer high resolution content than any streaming service currently offers. For the HN crowd, I thought ripping would be a no-brainer.
    • dragonwriter 12y ago
      > Also, you don't actually "own" your DRM-riddled digital downloads from Amazon, iTunes, etc. iTunes downloads aren't DRM-riddled (which is why my entire iTunes library is now part of my Google Play Music library.) > For the HN crowd, I thought ripping would be a no-brainer. Buy individual tracks and archiving them to your own media is a no-brainer, but ripping CDs isn't necessary to that when the major music download services all are (or allow you to export) portable, DRM-free copies.
    • davidgerard 12y ago
      I have over a terabyte of media here ... and I still play songs I actually own a copy of from YouTube, 'cos it's so much more convenient.