Why do you think that your portable music device must hold your entire video library before it's usable? Do you ever plan to watch 50-100 movies before you return to a close proximity to your home storage device? Are you going to keep your ONLY copy of these ripped DVDs on your portable device? So what's the big deal if you can ONLY hold 15 movies AND 2000 songs on a portable player these days? As someone that has ripped their entire DVD collection to a mass storage device, I know it takes time and is not something you risk on an iPod to hold exclusively. And screw $4 for the privilege of formatting the data you purchased for your device.
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Why do you think that your portable music device must hold your entire video library before it's usable? Do you ever plan to watch 50-100 movies before you return to a close proximity to your home storage device? Are you going to keep your ONLY copy of these ripped DVDs on your portable device? So what's the big deal if you can ONLY hold 15 movies AND 2000 songs on a portable player these days? As someone that has ripped their entire DVD collection to a mass storage device, I know it takes time and is not something you risk on an iPod to hold exclusively. And screw $4 for the privilege of formatting the data you purchased for your device.