How To: Rip Blu-ray Discs
Ah... those damn pirates.. what WILL they think of next?
You know, the RIAA and the MPAA should just concede defeat and solely publish digital media and just forget that optical media even existed... with our internet getting faster and cheaper, who really needs to have a physical copy of anything anymore? I mean the companies can keep records of who downloaded what so if you accidently (or purposefully) delete something, you can just download it again.. or better yet, stream it.. and then you can get rid of your cable TV bill alltogether.. I would almost always prefer a digital copy of something over a physical copy. What do you guys think?
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Ummm...why would you rip a blu-ray and then compress it to the ipod iphone size that is just stupid. The DVD which can be ripped and converted simply with regular free converters. The only reason you wold rip a bluray is to have a 1080p copy to stream to your ps3 and watch on your 80" plasma, otherwise just do the smaller dvd.
Well, if you have a full 1080P copy, you would be able to downconvert for any format, I think is the point. So you'd only need one copy on your drive.
Sam, as for the elimination of physical media, I think that's a little ways away for movies. You've got to think, even you, with your comparatively meager bandwidth allocation, are pretty blessed when you think about all those rural areas with only dial-up or expensive satellite service. Still, digital and physical media really should work better side by side than they do now.
Maybe forcing the revolution might stir companies to move out into the rural areas and provide broadband access.. Kind of like the DTV initiative tried to do..
Perhaps you're right; I might be happier with better integration rather than a irrational of burning anything that is CD form (a la Fahrenheit 451).. Netflix is on the right path.. one huge problem I have is not having immediate access to the newest episodes of shows.. My understanding is that they have to be available on DVD first.. You're going to say Hulu, Ben, but the few times I've tried to use it, I was turned away by the interface.. It just wasn't as intuitive as I would like it to be..
Although as we move farther away from the traditional types of computers with optical drives, and move into the realm of the ultra-portable (or netbook, if you will), DVDs are going to look less and less appealing..
*edit* A quick search yielded 0 full length episodes of How I Met Your Mother. PRELIMINARY FAIL
I suppose, but you have to consider that the status quo is already hard to break out of for these big companies. Pushing an initiative to stir another big company that's comfortable in ITS status quo might be a little beyond their reach for the moment. Not to mention the fact that America is pretty huge, and wiring it all would take quite a lot of money and planning, two things big companies are pretty stingy with. Things are moving in the right direction though, we'll just have to give it some time.
On the Hulu note, I think it's decent when there are shows, but the fact that it only has a fraction of the content that's out there is a major, major negative. Half the shows aren't even close to going on there, and the ones that are rarely have complete back catalogs, for if you're just getting into it. It's a flawed system, and only a tiny baby step in the right direction.
Frankly, I think that if they were to offer their shows on BT as they came out, it would encourage people to watch them as they aired. If I miss an episode of BSG and can't catch it later, I'd be less likely to continue watching it, and I certainly wouldn't pay the exorbitant sums required for a full DVD season. Those things are freaking massively expensive!
I feel no compunction at all about getting shows off the torrent, and I doubt I ever will.
Honestly? I have zero quibbles with BT. It would be entirely hypocritical of me to have any. I guess it's just my way to try to justify it. I'm of the school of thought, "if it's digital, it should be free".
On the same note, when and if I decide to become a software engineer, in the far distant future, I'll make my programs so complicated and convoluted, yet still provide a much needed service, that they will pay me huge sums of money to work the damn things, rather than pay for the software itself, lol.
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