This one requires a little prep. I do not know what software is required or even capable of doing this.
I believe a viable solution is to use text-to-speech to read back websites. Many websites offer printable versions of their articles which lack ads and a lot of the other fluff. It should then be possible to to take the text-to-speech output and encode it into an mp3.
Websites like Anandtech would be really good for this. The articles there are typically fairly long. Some sort of RSS software to convert the summaries to audio would work well too. A user can first listen to the summaries, and then select the articles that interest him/her the most.
Since most of my internet usage is surfing the web and reading articles, I do not really need a whole lot of bandwidth. Paying a reasonable amount for decent download and upload is more important to me than having excessive download rates. As it stands, paying over $50 per month is much too expensive for my tastes. I think $30 is much more reasonable for the general populace. For those that download gigabytes off of bittorrent all the time, they can subscripe to the higher tiered services to satisfy their need.
I really look forward to the day when every household has a fat pipe going into their house. Then telephony, television, and data can all be streamed using one connection and one cost.
I've seen a demo of the Kaleidescape system and was very impressed by it. It does the ripping for you. You put the DVD in the system and it'll directly copy it to the storage subsystem. It should not be removing any of the CSS. My understanding is that the company also made contracts with all the studios for this. The system is capable of skipping the menus and ads and playing the movie immediately from the beginning.
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This one requires a little prep. I do not know what software is required or even capable of doing this.
I believe a viable solution is to use text-to-speech to read back websites. Many websites offer printable versions of their articles which lack ads and a lot of the other fluff. It should then be possible to to take the text-to-speech output and encode it into an mp3.
Websites like Anandtech would be really good for this. The articles there are typically fairly long. Some sort of RSS software to convert the summaries to audio would work well too. A user can first listen to the summaries, and then select the articles that interest him/her the most.
Since most of my internet usage is surfing the web and reading articles, I do not really need a whole lot of bandwidth. Paying a reasonable amount for decent download and upload is more important to me than having excessive download rates. As it stands, paying over $50 per month is much too expensive for my tastes. I think $30 is much more reasonable for the general populace. For those that download gigabytes off of bittorrent all the time, they can subscripe to the higher tiered services to satisfy their need.
I really look forward to the day when every household has a fat pipe going into their house. Then telephony, television, and data can all be streamed using one connection and one cost.
I've seen a demo of the Kaleidescape system and was very impressed by it. It does the ripping for you. You put the DVD in the system and it'll directly copy it to the storage subsystem. It should not be removing any of the CSS. My understanding is that the company also made contracts with all the studios for this. The system is capable of skipping the menus and ads and playing the movie immediately from the beginning.