Will they ever come out with a decent portable blu-ray player?
May 26, 2014, 7:09 pm
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Will they ever come out with a decent portable blu-ray player?
seriously? perhaps there is one already out. any recommendations?
i have a large collection of dvd's and blu rays and it would be nice to take them with me for long cross country trips.
i have the ipad, but the movies you download from itunes aren't the kinds of titles i'm interested in.
i have a large collection of dvd's and blu rays and it would be nice to take them with me for long cross country trips.
i have the ipad, but the movies you download from itunes aren't the kinds of titles i'm interested in.
May 26, 2014, 7:58 pm
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There are several of them from Sony, Philips and Samsung along with a few no-name brands. Check Amazon for "portable blu ray player".
May 26, 2014, 9:32 pm
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These portable devices aren't going to use super HD screens. Might as well stick to DVD instead of looking @ BR (unless you also want to plug it into the TV @ your hotel).
May 28, 2014, 4:12 am
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GIYF!
Search for "Bluray rip <your operating system>" (On a mac I use handbrake)
rip bluray to mp4 (this will take a while)
download vlc from the app store to your ipad
upload ripped mp4 file.
Watch and enjoy.
Search for "Bluray rip <your operating system>" (On a mac I use handbrake)
rip bluray to mp4 (this will take a while)
download vlc from the app store to your ipad
upload ripped mp4 file.
Watch and enjoy.
May 28, 2014, 4:47 am
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Handbrake works for all three OSes. But for Windows perhaps http://download.cnet.com/Any-Video-C...-10661456.html is better.
May 28, 2014, 4:40 pm
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Honestly, I don't know if that sector of the industry is going to experience much more R&D and development. Sony should also be releasing a new format soon, with 30x the capacity. Wouldn't that be nice.
May 30, 2014, 1:06 am
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Just buy software to rip them. It's doubtful that anyone will build such a device as the sacrifices you need to make in terms of using discs is just too much. They're sort of deprecated at this point.
Bluray is a PITA. Updating your player, waiting to skip all of the warning screens, ads, etc, make them basically useless to me.
Bluray is a PITA. Updating your player, waiting to skip all of the warning screens, ads, etc, make them basically useless to me.
Jun 2, 2014, 12:37 pm
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Just buy software to rip them. It's doubtful that anyone will build such a device as the sacrifices you need to make in terms of using discs is just too much. They're sort of deprecated at this point.
Bluray is a PITA. Updating your player, waiting to skip all of the warning screens, ads, etc, make them basically useless to me.
Bluray is a PITA. Updating your player, waiting to skip all of the warning screens, ads, etc, make them basically useless to me.