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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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So you could have your movie collection ripped and set up like a jukebox. Then if you want to watch a movie you you just use your remote to pick the movie you want and watch it.
Or perhaps you want to watch a movie on a different TV while someone else is using your home entertainment centre.
Or your kids to be able to watch movies on their TV.
Or you rip the movies so you don't need to watch the $!$@ trailers they won't let your DVD player skip for movies that are "coming Christmas, 2003!" (I have a couple movies that have almost 10 minutes on trailers you can't skip).
Or you want to store the original DVD so you don't accidentally scratch it.
Lots of reasons.