Many movies don't do justice to the extra data used to encode a BD version. A lot of content isn't available in high definition to begin with..
Regardless of how you manage your disks you might want to peruse a review or two before you shell out extra money for a new version of something that you likely already have or can get dirt cheap.
He's asking for more than just a decrypted copy of a DVD.
He wants the same thing that is commonplace and expected for a music CD: something that detects all the tracks and matches them up to content titles. Clearly he wants something that can sort out a pile of Buffy DVDs, correctly label season, episode and title names and possibly fetch extra metadata.
A simple ripper doesn't do that.
Besides Kaledescape, I am not aware of anything that does.
BluRay jukeboxes aren't exactly cheap either. Plus the software isn't very widespread. DVD jukeboxes had the exact same problems which is why it became more common to see people rip everything.
Furthermore, the DRM of your disks is still going to limit you with a physical jukebox solution. It's still there and getting in the way.
The only way around that really is to just get rid of the DRM to begin with.
People have put together hard drive based solutions specifically because they don't like DRM limitations and are cost conscious.
Some can build an manage their own custom servers and you will never be bothered by them. Others really don't deserve to be called a developer. It all depends on what kind of environment you're working in.
You can't make generalizations that will be true across the board.
> I'm not sure why we're fixated on the concept of developers breaking their machine.
Seems like someone wants an excuse. Developers are a special case when it comes to IT. They use computers "harder" so there is bound to be some friction between development and "IT" especially in larger shops where there's more nonsense all around.
Most of the stupid IT policies are in place to deal with people that aren't developers.
Of course there's the usual "IT is a cost center" problem too. But in a large corporation, you have to assume everyone has less skill than a trained monkey and even less sense.
> Yes, it can. For example Win7 can use > 32 threads (cores). It can also work with NUMA RAM. Win XP can't do either.
So? Neither of these bullet points are particularly relevant to your typical desktop Windows use cases. If this is really the best you can come up then the "XP does the job just fine" contingent of the argument just won.
No. You just ASSume he's a pirate because you're projecting. You can't imagine that anyone would actually BUY that much material. So you just assume that anyone that has that amount of stuff has stolen it.
This really says more about YOU than it does him.
10TB isn't that much really when compared what people pay for things like cable and trips to the cinema. If your stuff is in pristine formats it ads up quick. This is especially true for the HD stuff.
Current sub-$100 SSDs are simply not good enough unless you only use your PC as a glorified web terminal like some sort of iPad. If you have ANY sort of digital media to speak of, those small cheap SSDs quickly become entirely inadequate (just like an iPad).
All it takes is some music and some photos. You don't even have to get into any level of video archiving (nevermind extreme examples).
It's all nonsense. It's all ultimately government censorship. Although it's especially blatant when it is a member of the government harrasing a "private entity" to be the tool of government policy.
At least the MPAA is an attempt by the industry to avoid government regulation by self-regulating.
Both are ultimately the result of the threat of the government to do what it really should have no power to do.
Those revolutionaries authored the basis of all of our laws.
They aren't just figments of history. Their legacy remains quite intact even to this day. In some ways they serve as a cautionary example of where certain sorts of slippery slopes lead.
That is why the whole revolution happened to begin with.
People will only take so much before they tar and feather the tax man and parade him through the street.
That's the problem here. We allow terms to be used with such impugnity that they become pretty much meaningless. It's not limited to politics of course. Advertisers love to do the same thing to language.
The World Trade center was just a civilian office building with perhaps a high concentration of financial firms due to it's location. The idea that it should be elevated to "legitimate military target" for "command and control" purposes is just retarded.
It sounds like something that's the product of a certain form of mindless political bias.
A police station is no more of a valid military target either.
You don't even have to make it a WORM drive, you just need to to look like one. Build hardware that looks like a printer but logs to whatever you like. Make the hardware limited and don't have any other interfaces connect to the storage medium.
Which might be limited to 2 seasons out of 10, or similar such nonsense.
Then stuff "expires" and you can't watch it anymore.
Netflix streaming is like a single independent local broadcaster that might have a lot of diverse things but might have nothing that you actually want to watch.
This is why people should not be so quick to get rid of physical media. Physical media is personal property and comes with first sale rights and a large group of diverse sellers. You can buy just what you need, pay the market price for it, and find a 3rd party willing to sell it to you.
You don't have to put up with any of this "it's their content, they should be able to exclude you" kind of nonsense.
> Folks, it's a measly $8/month for unlimited TV and movies. How enticing is that?
It depends on what the movies are.
If I am only interested in the cheapest available option and am willing to tolerate other people's limited choices, then I can just put up a big antenna.
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> It's easier to re-rip/download than it is to backup media (movies/music).
No. It is much more of a bother to rip stuff again.
Backing up your media can be as simply as "cp DiskA/* DiskB".
Messing around with any number of optical disks is going to be more bother than that.
That represents 900G of storage space tops.
Plus you need the software that can manage that device.
Many movies don't do justice to the extra data used to encode a BD version. A lot of content isn't available in high definition to begin with..
Regardless of how you manage your disks you might want to peruse a review or two before you shell out extra money for a new version of something that you likely already have or can get dirt cheap.
Put them in a box.
Alternately, dispose of original packaging and just keep the inserts and covers. The physical disks themselves can compress down quite nicely.
Boxed sets also compress nicely. They make special "banker boxes" you can use for this. Get some nice deep shelves and just shove them in a corner.
He's asking for more than just a decrypted copy of a DVD.
He wants the same thing that is commonplace and expected for a music CD: something that detects all the tracks and matches them up to content titles. Clearly he wants something that can sort out a pile of Buffy DVDs, correctly label season, episode and title names and possibly fetch extra metadata.
A simple ripper doesn't do that.
Besides Kaledescape, I am not aware of anything that does.
BluRay jukeboxes aren't exactly cheap either. Plus the software isn't very widespread. DVD jukeboxes had the exact same problems which is why it became more common to see people rip everything.
Furthermore, the DRM of your disks is still going to limit you with a physical jukebox solution. It's still there and getting in the way.
The only way around that really is to just get rid of the DRM to begin with.
People have put together hard drive based solutions specifically because they don't like DRM limitations and are cost conscious.
All developers are not created equal.
Some can build an manage their own custom servers and you will never be bothered by them. Others really don't deserve to be called a developer. It all depends on what kind of environment you're working in.
You can't make generalizations that will be true across the board.
> I'm not sure why we're fixated on the concept of developers breaking their machine.
Seems like someone wants an excuse. Developers are a special case when it comes to IT. They use computers "harder" so there is bound to be some friction between development and "IT" especially in larger shops where there's more nonsense all around.
Most of the stupid IT policies are in place to deal with people that aren't developers.
Of course there's the usual "IT is a cost center" problem too. But in a large corporation, you have to assume everyone has less skill than a trained monkey and even less sense.
> Yes, it can. For example Win7 can use > 32 threads (cores). It can also work with NUMA RAM. Win XP can't do either.
So? Neither of these bullet points are particularly relevant to your typical desktop Windows use cases. If this is really the best you can come up then the "XP does the job just fine" contingent of the argument just won.
No. You just ASSume he's a pirate because you're projecting. You can't imagine that anyone would actually BUY that much material. So you just assume that anyone that has that amount of stuff has stolen it.
This really says more about YOU than it does him.
10TB isn't that much really when compared what people pay for things like cable and trips to the cinema. If your stuff is in pristine formats it ads up quick. This is especially true for the HD stuff.
Current sub-$100 SSDs are simply not good enough unless you only use your PC as a glorified web terminal like some sort of iPad. If you have ANY sort of digital media to speak of, those small cheap SSDs quickly become entirely inadequate (just like an iPad).
All it takes is some music and some photos. You don't even have to get into any level of video archiving (nevermind extreme examples).
It's all nonsense. It's all ultimately government censorship. Although it's especially blatant when it is a member of the government harrasing a "private entity" to be the tool of government policy.
At least the MPAA is an attempt by the industry to avoid government regulation by self-regulating.
Both are ultimately the result of the threat of the government to do what it really should have no power to do.
Those revolutionaries authored the basis of all of our laws.
They aren't just figments of history. Their legacy remains quite intact even to this day. In some ways they serve as a cautionary example of where certain sorts of slippery slopes lead.
That is why the whole revolution happened to begin with.
People will only take so much before they tar and feather the tax man and parade him through the street.
A politician lied, imagine that?
That's the problem here. We allow terms to be used with such impugnity that they become pretty much meaningless. It's not limited to politics of course. Advertisers love to do the same thing to language.
That's nonsense.
The World Trade center was just a civilian office building with perhaps a high concentration of financial firms due to it's location. The idea that it should be elevated to "legitimate military target" for "command and control" purposes is just retarded.
It sounds like something that's the product of a certain form of mindless political bias.
A police station is no more of a valid military target either.
He owns a copy of the game. He has a right to use it.
Anything short of re-distribution should be treated what it really is: exercising your rights as an individual over your own personal property.
In their rush to protect the rights of corporations, certain parties have neglected the rights of individuals.
If you could pass the Turing test, it wouldn't matter.
You are confused.
Religion implies faith, not conclusions based on observation and experience and predictions based on same.
I am certainly not the only one complaining.
That trick is very old. It goes all the way back to tube televisions.
You don't even have to make it a WORM drive, you just need to to look like one. Build hardware that looks like a printer but logs to whatever you like. Make the hardware limited and don't have any other interfaces connect to the storage medium.
Surely it is.
With things like Unity and Wayland and Upstart, we really shouldn't expect anything else.
> Also there is a TON of kids programming
Which might be limited to 2 seasons out of 10, or similar such nonsense.
Then stuff "expires" and you can't watch it anymore.
Netflix streaming is like a single independent local broadcaster that might have a lot of diverse things but might have nothing that you actually want to watch.
This is why people should not be so quick to get rid of physical media. Physical media is personal property and comes with first sale rights and a large group of diverse sellers. You can buy just what you need, pay the market price for it, and find a 3rd party willing to sell it to you.
You don't have to put up with any of this "it's their content, they should be able to exclude you" kind of nonsense.
Netflix is not going to replace an 'overpriced cable service'.
You're just kidding yourself if you think it can.
An antenna and a Tivo would probably be more effective.
> Folks, it's a measly $8/month for unlimited TV and movies. How enticing is that?
It depends on what the movies are.
If I am only interested in the cheapest available option and am willing to tolerate other people's limited choices, then I can just put up a big antenna.