imonit, why should Hollywood, and ultimately all consumers be burdened with the additional expense of combo disks for edge cases and a diminishing minority of people who want to share their disks between DVD and BD decks?
If you absolutely need to play on DVDs on other devices, there are already several ways of doing it with varying degrees of legality / morality / complexity:
1. Buy the DVD. Oftentimes, the same BD title might have been out on DVD for years and therefore available for cheap used or from the bargain bin. 2. Rent the DVD and rip it. 3. Rip the BD (using AnyDVD) and downscale it. It takes an age without a fast PC but its quite feasible. On the plus side, single layer DVDs done this way are often better quality than if you downscaled a dual layer DVD.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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imonit, why should Hollywood, and ultimately all consumers be burdened with the additional expense of combo disks for edge cases and a diminishing minority of people who want to share their disks between DVD and BD decks?
If you absolutely need to play on DVDs on other devices, there are already several ways of doing it with varying degrees of legality / morality / complexity:
1. Buy the DVD. Oftentimes, the same BD title might have been out on DVD for years and therefore available for cheap used or from the bargain bin.
2. Rent the DVD and rip it.
3. Rip the BD (using AnyDVD) and downscale it. It takes an age without a fast PC but its quite feasible. On the plus side, single layer DVDs done this way are often better quality than if you downscaled a dual layer DVD.