RealDVD superficially sounds like a good idea, but the extra layer of DRM and the pricing model was pretty stupid. Maybe, just maybe if you were a novice user with a pressing urge to watching everything contained on the DVD on the go it might be worth it.
I also find it ironic that a product that claims fair use should plaster the resulting files in DRM so you cannot use them as you see fit.
I do think the existing rip tools need to be simpler to use. Especially the free ones. It wouldn't hurt either if a tool were able to automatically rip all the menus and playlists too and for something like VLC to support the portable format. Most of the pieces are in place to do this already.
“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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RealDVD superficially sounds like a good idea, but the extra layer of DRM and the pricing model was pretty stupid. Maybe, just maybe if you were a novice user with a pressing urge to watching everything contained on the DVD on the go it might be worth it.
I also find it ironic that a product that claims fair use should plaster the resulting files in DRM so you cannot use them as you see fit.
I do think the existing rip tools need to be simpler to use. Especially the free ones. It wouldn't hurt either if a tool were able to automatically rip all the menus and playlists too and for something like VLC to support the portable format. Most of the pieces are in place to do this already.