Subj : Highly profitable
To   : Nightfox
From : Kaelon
Date : Sat Jul 16 2022 06:23 pm

 Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
 By: Nightfox to Kaelon on Sat Jul 16 2022 04:09 pm

> I've ripped some of my movies - Not all, but some, and put them on my Plex
> media server.  Eventually, I think it would probably be good to just rip
> them all and buy a USB hard drive to back them up onto.

We're the same person. ;) And I, too, assumed that flash-disks or USB drives would have gone mainstream and replaced optical drives, but the entertainment industry is obsessed with digital rights management and getting all of the TV manufacturers to align on the same proprietary format would be madness.  So, today, pretty much every TV can decode every format via USB inserted media, but if a publisher or distributor wants DMR, they're fresh out of luck.

Considering optical media starts to decay in around 20 years, this is no longer a theoretical.  Any DVD or Blu-Ray purchased at the start of the millenium is nearing its end-of-life.  Best to rip it soon before quality begins to decline.
_____
-=: Kaelon :=-

---
� Synchronet � Vertrauen � Home of Synchronet � [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net

You are viewing proxied material from bbs.kd3.us. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.