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RE: awesome indeed
By SunAngel on 12/5/2006 8:28:56 PM , Rating: 1
Why? Why is it so important to be able to rip content into unsupported formats to other devices? For the kids? For the grandparents? For traveling while driving? For strolling while walking? For swimming while at the beach? For all except the first two, by viewing the content instead of focusing on the issue at hand (i.e. paying attention to the road, paying attention to where you walking, keeping the device from getting wet) has the likelyhood of putting others in dangerous situations, not to mention yourself. For the first two, will the kids really care if there watching a tivo recording ripped from the tivo machine or a dvd being played on a portable dvd player? And the grandparents? How many grandparents lives are so busy that they have to watch tv on the go?

Come on everyone. This DRM code breaking stuff is getting a little long in the tooth. I'm not a proponent for or against it, I just think hooking up a MCE 2005 machine, buring a dvd, and viewing it on a portable dvd player is alot easier than the ripping process, transcoding to a different format, and doing whatever else you need to do with the material.

RE: awesome indeed
By RogueSpear on 12/5/2006 10:06:09 PM , Rating: 2
Why? Because I can. And because I don't like people telling me what I can and can't do with my media. Even if it's not practical it's all about principle.

RE: awesome indeed
By mindless1 on 12/6/2006 4:04:08 AM , Rating: 2
You might be falsely assuming that Your Way is BEST for everyone. If it were true, there would be only one device in the market, what a sad state of technology that would be!

RE: awesome indeed
By hondaman on 12/6/2006 9:59:25 AM , Rating: 3

1. So that I can put TV eps on my media server and watch them on any TV in the house.
2. So that I can transcode the files into whatever type I want.
3. So that I can play the files on whatever device I want.
4. So that I am not limited to the storage on the Tivo box.
5. So that I can backup the the shows on the Tivo box, as Tivos have a relatively high failure rate.
6. So that I can copy tv eps for my friends. And now that you are wiping the coffee off your keyboard and monitor, keep in mind that people copied and traded casually VRC tapes _all the time_ and nobody (RIAA especially) made a fuss about it then. Legal? No. Did "they" care? No.
7. Tivo is going to start inserting advertisements into skipped commercials. I can now take the advertisements out. AGAIN.
8. Remember the days of fair use? I do.
9. Its my right to be able to use recorded content however I want for personal use, regardless of what the RIAA/MPAA is brainwashing you to think.
10. Because I can.

