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#1 Vaders Scar

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 02:15 PM

Does anyone know if I could play films from my hard drive by plugging it into a Toshiba SD290 if I bought one?

And before anyone gets self righteous I ripped all the films from my DVD collection.

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:32 PM

In theory it should work although I'd assume it depends on how good the built in media browser is. It does have DivX support though which I'm assuming you've ripped and converted into?

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 01:04 AM

QUOTE (Paddy0 @ Aug 11 2009, 02:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

In theory it should work although I'd assume it depends on how good the built in media browser is. It does have DivX support though which I'm assuming you've ripped and converted into?

You assume correctly.
I'd agree, it should work. Just don't want to waste time with it if it doesn't.
I think I might take my Hard drive along with me to a store that sells it and see if they'l let me try.

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 05:26 AM

Although owning a disc, it is still illegal to copy it. Its written in that silly screen at the start of nearly every movie ever. And that is also because you have to break their copyright therefore you are breaking the law...

Semantics aside (and its a very murky topic)

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 06:59 AM

QUOTE (Vaders Scar @ Aug 10 2009, 08:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And before anyone gets self righteous I ripped all the films from my DVD collection.

I thought by saying this I'd nipped any moralising in the bud.
But, no...................

QUOTE (Maelgwyn @ Aug 11 2009, 11:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm from the Scotland.
Scottish (and UK) law states that you can make a copy for your own personal use and back-up purposes.

Anyway, cheers for your advice apart from that. I'm off to check just now.

Wish me luck.

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 07:56 AM

Bollocks.
They say it'll only take memory up to 4Gb.
Does that sound right to anyone?

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 09:36 AM

Aren't most movies 8, and then you use a program to "shrink" them and they go down to 4? Hmmm I've only ever *heard* of this for burning movies to a blank DVD though. Not sure about HDs and such.

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 09:50 AM

QUOTE (Orelinde @ Aug 11 2009, 03:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Aren't most movies 8, and then you use a program to "shrink" them and they go down to 4? Hmmm I've only ever *heard* of this for burning movies to a blank DVD though. Not sure about HDs and such.

Most DVDs are about 4.7Gb. Some films will be released on slightly larger ones.
Cutting out all the extras will give you a file between 1 and 2Gb.

I usually reduce the quality (which works fine on my Archos 605) so it's usually about 500-750Mb.