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I feel the same applies to physical media releases too. Trying to watch a DVD is an absolutely miserable experience with menus and restricted actions. It's for
by rbritton 11y ago
I feel the same applies to physical media releases too. Trying to watch a DVD is an absolutely miserable experience with menus and restricted actions. It's for this reason that I have the majority of the content I own ripped and stored in an iTunes library where I can access it quickly from my Apple TV.
- Ntrails 11y agoAnd ripping is actually more effort (in my limited experience) than just torrenting the damned thing even if you own the physical DVD. It's magic
- ddingus 11y agoYep. Way back in the day, I happened to setup the Open Source OGLE DVD player software. I think it was Mandrake Linux, running on some PC with a Matrox G400 card --the one with nice 2D, and great DVD support. Insert disc, press T, then P, and you are watching the movie, no BS. Took maybe 5 seconds tops after disk mount. Turned out to be popular, so I bought a real DVD player for the family, and we hated that thing. "Aladdin" is talked about a lot, but it's true! Every single time the kids wanted to watch that thing, it was something like 15 minutes of previews for all this other cool stuff, over and over. That was the first DVD I ripped. Couldn't stand it. And once setup for that, I ripped 'em all, and also got the benefit of younger ones not destroying fragile media at some considerable expense all the time too. That and losing it, or swapping with friends... For a number of years, I replaced that "real" DVD player with OGLE setup to just play the movie no matter what. Was great OSS advocacy. Suddenly, a whole bunch of people knew who a "geek" and "hacker" was, what software was, how it can impact lives, and all sorts of other good things just because DVD media producers just HAD to annoy the crap out of people. Funny that!