I've been running Mandrake on my Acer laptop for about 6 months and I'm yearning for a Mac because "it just works". I have to do quite a bit of configuring just to get hibernate and power management working, and my Broadcom 802.11G will never work (unless I use ndiswrapper, which doesn't work with the Windows drivers I can get ahold of). Linux will not be a good laptop OS until these things will just work out of the box.
I actually do own an external hard drive. But when I want to give a friend a movie, I can simply hand them a DVDR and be done with it. I don't have to go to their house, plug in my external hard drive (and pray that they have USB2, since quite a few of my friends still do not), then wait ~5+ minutes for it to copy. And that's if I want to give them only one movie (or 1 DVDR worth of stuff), which often I do not.
Your idea of us meeting somewhere hinges on the fact that they have a laptop which a few of my friends still do not have, and that we have the time or wish to do these copy-fests (as copying ~4 DVDs worth of stuff over USB2 will have you sitting somewhere for quite a while. If you want to copy all 3 LOTR:EEs, be prepared to wait a while). So under given conditions an external hard drive may work better, but for the majority of users I feel DVDRs are preferrable.
As for spanning a video over several DVDs, the only videos that I have had to do that with have been DVD movies, which I wish to watch on my set-top dvd player. True another case could be that I would like to have a 16GB HD transport stream instead of 4*4GB files, but I'm not going to be capturing/downloading a raw transport stream anytime soon (~4 GB XviD encodes w/ AC3 work for me just fine).
I think it will be a lot sooner than 10 years that we will be able to do that in just a couple of minutes. But the original poster said what do we need DVDRs for. And right now, I feel that we need them for things such as exchanging media with others.
Um, for exchanging content? If I want to give a friend a copy of a movie, I'm not giving my external hard drive OR trying to send a 4.3 GB movie over the net.
But then again I guess my argument is worthless since both of those things would be illegal.
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I've been running Mandrake on my Acer laptop for about 6 months and I'm yearning for a Mac because "it just works". I have to do quite a bit of configuring just to get hibernate and power management working, and my Broadcom 802.11G will never work (unless I use ndiswrapper, which doesn't work with the Windows drivers I can get ahold of). Linux will not be a good laptop OS until these things will just work out of the box.
Agreed. I've been playing around with the beta for some time now and would love a more polished version.
I actually do own an external hard drive. But when I want to give a friend a movie, I can simply hand them a DVDR and be done with it. I don't have to go to their house, plug in my external hard drive (and pray that they have USB2, since quite a few of my friends still do not), then wait ~5+ minutes for it to copy. And that's if I want to give them only one movie (or 1 DVDR worth of stuff), which often I do not.
Your idea of us meeting somewhere hinges on the fact that they have a laptop which a few of my friends still do not have, and that we have the time or wish to do these copy-fests (as copying ~4 DVDs worth of stuff over USB2 will have you sitting somewhere for quite a while. If you want to copy all 3 LOTR:EEs, be prepared to wait a while). So under given conditions an external hard drive may work better, but for the majority of users I feel DVDRs are preferrable.
As for spanning a video over several DVDs, the only videos that I have had to do that with have been DVD movies, which I wish to watch on my set-top dvd player. True another case could be that I would like to have a 16GB HD transport stream instead of 4*4GB files, but I'm not going to be capturing/downloading a raw transport stream anytime soon (~4 GB XviD encodes w/ AC3 work for me just fine).
I think it will be a lot sooner than 10 years that we will be able to do that in just a couple of minutes. But the original poster said what do we need DVDRs for. And right now, I feel that we need them for things such as exchanging media with others.
Um, for exchanging content? If I want to give a friend a copy of a movie, I'm not giving my external hard drive OR trying to send a 4.3 GB movie over the net.
But then again I guess my argument is worthless since both of those things would be illegal.