itunes & DVD's.
with Apple going down the road of the Mac being your entainment centre and the apple tv and ipod being it's intagration into your free time, do you think one of the top secret fetures of leopard will be itunes ability to burn your excisting DVD's and then just like your cd's sync them top your ipod or apple tv etc.
it makes sense as they could be drm'd.
Apple know this happen's with mack the ripper etc and it would sell Apple tv's by the bucket load.
this would truly make itunes the entertainment juke box of the time.
it makes sense as they could be drm'd.
Apple know this happen's with mack the ripper etc and it would sell Apple tv's by the bucket load.
this would truly make itunes the entertainment juke box of the time.
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Sebastian
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...leID=198001672
I expect Flip4Mac will be getting a lawsuit about Drive-In before long, too.
Software that rips DVDs isn't legal in the USA.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...leID=198001672
I expect Flip4Mac will be getting a lawsuit about Drive-In before long, too.
Distributing software whose main or sole purpose is the circumvention of DRM is illegal in the US. Use of that software by individuals exercising their fair-use rights (backup, media change) is of debatable legality and has not been tested in the courts.
Drive-in does not circumvent DRM (the CSS on the DVD is not removed when copied to the HDD), and Flip4Mac have implemented a protection mechanism to stop people sharing their rips. Only you can play back rips that you've made. Others cannot play back your rips, and you can't play other people's rips. Drive-in is safe.
do you think one of the top secret fetures of leopard will be itunes ability to burn your excisting DVD's and then just like your cd's sync them top your ipod or apple tv etc.
Presumably you mean rip, not burn.
And yes, I hope Apple will do this. They could use modern GPUs' hardware encode features to give a reasonable importing performance.
Drive-in does not circumvent DRM (the CSS on the DVD is not removed when copied to the HDD), and Flip4Mac have implemented a protection mechanism to stop people sharing their rips. Only you can play back rips that you've made. Others cannot play back your rips, and you can't play other people's rips. Drive-in is safe.
The article goes on and states that Kaleidescope uses both CSS and 256-bit AES to protect their files. So Flip4Macs' preservation of CSS would not protect them from the DVD CCA.
The article goes on and states that Kaleidescope uses both CSS and 256-bit AES to protect their files. So Flip4Macs' preservation of CSS would not protect them from the DVD CCA.
Good point.
Flip4Mac may or may not have a concern, depending on if they have a contract with the DVD CCA or not.
This is the key. I think that they probably don't; I don't see why they would need one: their software won't play any of the content - you use Apple's DVD player for that.
Obviously, Apple needs more studio support; I'd prefer a larger selection to 720p quality at this point, as I find most of the stuff I download is certainly acceptable from a quality standpoint. It's not HD, but it's better than SD broadcasts stretched on DirecTV.