The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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Count me as one of the 21% who don't care to copy DVDs. Because of time constraints, I rarely watch a movie more than once. I've never had a DVD go bad on me, so I have no use for "backups", as they're called.
Also, what could be simpler than popping a DVD into a player and watching it. Certainly not ripping it to a hard drive.
I hope you crack a disk or drop one and your dog gets a hold of it.
you do know to backup a dvd .. you basically hit 1 or 2 buttons and walk away ? and hard drives are extremely Cheap now .. just letting ya know
Sorry to dash your hopes, Fuzz, but it hasn't happened yet in my decade of DVD playing. Nice thought, however.
Jon, there is absolutely no way ripping DVDs (and playing them from a hard drive) won't consume much more of your time. Hard drives are cheap, but DVD players are cheaper and everyone has one already. Don't forget buying the software, and media player/networking equipment if you're going to play them from your computer. That has to be setup too. It's simply not a good trade off given the exceedingly unlikely event of a broken DVD.