RE: Re: Getting DVDs onto a hard drive

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
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> Sent: 02 April 2007 18:04
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> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Getting DVDs onto a hard drive
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> 23 drives!! thats jawsome!!!

It keeps my "office" warm ...

... along with 4 x 19" Iiyama CRT monitors that might explain why at
the
moment (9:30pm) the office is a balmy 29 degrees with the window open.

> as for ripping, pc based i use dvd decrypter and dvd shrink, however
> on dvd shrink i don't use the shrinking bit!  I store all my rips as
> iso's.  I find iso's much easier to deal with and everything i've ever
> tried to use can handle them (fair play i've not tried that many
> different devices)  my ibook can stream from an iso fine using vlc and
> xbmc of course handles them perfectly.

You can make ISO images from CloneDVD too...

> mac based ripping....well thats something im not there yet with, so
> far thats one of two tasks that the pc beats the mac for (the other is
> burning cd's and dvd's) roll on me buying an intel macbook! :)

:-D

Phil