oldhand
Premium
join:2003-05-16
Saugus, MA
| Or offer DVD/HD jukebox servers...
Sony and other manufacturers currently sell 400-disc jukebox DVD players. If they'd offer a version with a Gigabit-Ethernet connection, Wake-On-LAN, a fully searchable database interface (similar to iTunes), and a small hard drive so that it could feed buffered movies (to allow scheduled watching so that multiple movies could be viewed simultaneously), I'd buy one immediately and avoid the hassle of ripping and decrypting discs that I have purchased.
Although I don't download or in any other way receive bootlegged movies, Hollywood has even driven this old geezer to seek out DRM decryption software to satisfy basic Fair Use needs. Congratulations Hollywood... |
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| What do you currently use?
I am looking to do the same as I would like to rip all 100+ movies onto drives and have it shared throughout the home for use. I have seen a few systems that do that, but they are quite costly. ($20,000+)
I was thinking more of something along the lines of Media Center 2005, but I need the ability to password protect movies based on rating and I dont think MC2005 allows that. |
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ASG9
join:2003-03-22
Big Easy
| reply to oldhand
isn't that the truth? spend thousands to build a media room and then have to fiddle for an hour with DIVX, Greencine, Movielink, XP's MCE whatever to watch a movie. keeping up with Hollywood's download paranoia isn't worth the time or aggravation. if you have to drive to blockbuster, why not drive to the local ballpark and watch the kids play organized baseball. |
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