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A pointless exercise

I have recently become obsessed with what is essentially a pointless project.  I am currently ripping all of my DVDs to WMV files so that I can access them all with the click of a button on my Media Center Extender. 

Actually, my motivation is deeper than laziness.  I'm fully planning on getting a new TV with my tax return, and I'm planning on making it a nice LCD or Plasma screen that I can mount above my fireplace.  If I do that, I'll have no reason at all to keep the entertainment center that I currently own.  Now, this entertainment center takes up a great deal of space in my living room, so if I can get rid of that too, all the better.  And if I don't have to buy a new place to store my DVDs, then ... uh... whatever's better than "all the better."

So I'm ripping these bastards.

Yeah.

Posted: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:15 PM by mikey

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fuzzymarc said:

Yeah, I agree.  This is pointless waste of hard drive space and time, and if your RAID array crashed you have to start the ripping process again.

That said, this is the guy who spent $80 and literally weeks of time building my own wireless access point instead of just buying one for $50.  So I understand the bent geek appeal of it.

...but you're still an idiot.

# February 1, 2007 4:33 PM
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