I travel quite a bit for work and watch movies on long flights, but the battery on my lap top gets really drained by operating the optical drive to play the movie. Why aren't movies available on Flash ram sticks? Wouldn't that be much easier on the battery on the PC? Maybe I should rip the DVD before I travel? Is there an alternative source of media....something on a flash drive that would extend the battery life and end the need for the opitcal drive? DD
I have actually never downloaded any movies, how is the quality, what are their sizes? Good place to do it? DD
www.isohunt.com or www.mininova.org . of course, you should only download the movies you already own look for the dvd rips...quality is good enough and the files are usually only 700 megs.
er... uh... limewire torrents (azereus) im just saying, not that I do any of that stuff... HD movies can be anywhere from 2-4 GB regular movies are usually about 700 MB again, not that I do any of this stuff....
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I do not want to do anything illegal, probably I would more rip the movies off the DVD's I already own........ and take the memorry stick with me...they are so cheap these days. Anyone know how much more battery life you would get by playing the movie from a HDD or flash ram device? DD
I'm pretty sure that according to the DMCA, using software to circumvent the copywrite protection of the DVD is illegal. I don't think it's illegal to own a backup, though. Of course, the only way to get the backup on your own is using p2p software, which is mostly tit-for-tat these days, and means that you are sharing the movies while you are downloading them, which makes THAT illegal too.
youre allowed to rip your own movies, if youre able to do it. as long as you dont redistribute, youre golden.
Not quite true anymore. A few years ago, a program existed named DCDxCopy that would allow you to rip copy protected movies to disk (or copy to DVD). It was deemed that this program violated copyright/license rules/laws and they had to remove the ability to rip copy protected DVDs. The company went out of business. That being said, there are programs (check out imtoo.com) that allow you to rip copy protected DVDs to your iPod, which means you can watch them via iTunes. There is also a free program for Macs named "handbrake". Here is a link to a Macworld article about it: http://www.macworld.com/article/59605/2006/12/handbrake.html
I agree. I've watched downloaded movies before on my laptop on battery before. It still didn't last long.
