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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I agree that you should have the right to do that, but why on earth would you want to? The Xbox 360 is already a DVD player...what's the point of ripping a DVD to your PC's harddrive, compressing it to DivX format (reducing the audio and video quality in the process) and then streaming it to your Xbox, when you could just watch the DVD directly on your Xbox to begin with?
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, one instance where's it's really advantageous to rip a DVD is if you want to copy it to your laptop to watch on a plane. You're lucky to get 1.5-2 of battery life from a laptop if the DVD drive is in constant use, but you can easily watch a full movie if it's playing from the harddrive.
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Well it doesn't have to be a lossy rip like DivX, you could rip it directly and use the MPEG2 directly without transcoding it, for full video quality. Or I'm sure there are other streaming solutions out there for high def streaming as well.
Another use would be for kids, rather than having tons of DVDs of shows and stuff all lying around the house and getting wrecked by kids, having them all on a media server and can be streamed to whatever TV is handy is a great thing.
Just two examples.