On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:12 AM, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org" target="_blank">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 05:16:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 12:25 -0400, Tom Bongiorno wrote:<br>
> > I currently have 5 Nvidia ION frontends. All playing HD and Blu-rays<br>
> > very well. I use 8GB thumb drives or SD cards in all of them. No<br>
> > problems at all. I am not sure if bootup would be quicker with an<br>
> > SSD, but the expense was not justified for me. I have long wanted to<br>
> > try standby mode, but never got around to it. My latest frontends<br>
> > have been Zotac ZBox ID11 snagged on eBay for $125 each with $10 for<br>
> > an 8GB SD card.<br>
> ><br>
> > -Tom<br>
> I thought playing Blu-Ray, at least a random one with a commercial<br>
> movie, did not work because the format is locked down. Even MS Windows<br>
> and Mac OS require special software, which seems to cost more than a<br>
> blu-ray player. Are you saying that's not a problem, or are you just<br>
> using special Blu-rays, like ones you burned yourself?<br>
<br>
</div> Rip it and forget about the physical media and it's encryption.<br>
<br>
With 4 or 5 frontends, this is really the most sensible thing to do<br>
anyways as it beats carting some disk around the house.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Sorry for the delay in my response. I don't get much past my primary inbox on some weekends. I use MakeMKV to archive all my blu-rays. Yes, uncompressed. I have a 2TB drive for this reason. I legitimately own every Blu-ray on my backend. Physical media was a real problem in my household because the little ones would destroy at least one disc a month. I would find them face down under the sofa or in a toy box. I tried hiding the discs, but somehow they always got their hands on them. Now we can watch any disc from any TV in the house! I own one Blu-ray player and never use it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The only disc I have had a problem with so far is Avatar. Everything works great except for a small hesitation when the forced subtitles appear on screen.</div><div><br></div><div>-Tom</div>