[mythtv-users] Sony 200 disc changer
Brad DerManouelian
myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Jan 28 03:24:13 UTC 2009
On Jan 27, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Brad Templeton wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:24:11AM -0800, Jeremy Palenchar wrote:
>> I have three of these waiting in the wings to bring online for my DVD
>> library.
>>
>
> Are they cheap now?
Mine was sitting on the floor of the office I just moved into (I work
for Sony), so it was cheap for me. :)
> These things used to cost $400. For $100 you can
> have a 1TB disk drive that will hold 300 to 400 dvds compressed to
> mp4,
> and about 160 DVDs as raw rips. Is it just a matter of it being
> easier
> to load in the DVDs into this than to slowly add them, one at a
> time, as
> you think of them?
I find that some DVDs won't rip, but will play.
> I suppose a good idea might be a club. The club buys one of these.
> You
> load in your DVD collection. Over the next day or two it rips them
> all.
> Then you unload and mail the changer to the next guy in the club.
That sounds expensive (they weigh a LOT) and illegal.
> Now for me personally I (very close to) never watch DVDs again after
> I have seen them, but for those who like to do that, this approach
> might be better, and a lot cheaper. Of course your new DVDs you would
> have to slot in. I suppose if you could program hotplug to just do an
> automatic rip the moment you insert any DVD, and to do the rip in a
> way
> that you can start watching while it rips (and if you select a
> different
> track not yet ripped, it tells the rippper to immediately do that
> one.)
> That would be nice.
I have children. They watch things over and over and over again and
Disney DVDs tend not to rip. It's nice to have them select from a menu
instead of scratching them up all the time.
-Brad
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