Watching movies is something that kills time, and is an enjoyable part of staying at home. People like me enjoy just sitting in front of the TV, eating junk food, watching documentaries or movies.
The problem is, cable companies mostly play terrible movies, and DVDs cost a fortune and can be a cluttery mess around the house. Imagine the towers of loose DVDs astride your DVD player, which you must search and fix into a tower once more after you've found the movie you want.
Well, I don't know why nobody has ever thought of making a DVD player that can STORE your favorite movies inside its very own hard disk. DVD movies take up lots of memory and so the storage space must be at least able to store around 10 movies/shows/documentaries. I reckon 120GB would be enough but I'm not sure.
Imagine, you can just plop in the DVD of your choice, and copy it to your hard disk with a few clicks on the remote. Now anytime you want to see that movie, you can just choose that movie file from the hard disk and play it. You can just store the DVD away for good.
I know I would enjoy having the ability to choose from a library of movies WITHIN my DVD player. We could even take this up a notch and link the DVD hard disk to some sort of internet connection so that peers could trade DVD files on the fly with their DVD player.
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This already exists in a certain form. What you are refering to is called ripping and happens thousands of times a day on computers. You put a DVD in click a few buttons and in about 1 to 2 hours the DVD is on your hard drive and only takes about 700MB of space. Many computers now days have S-video out which you can hook up to your TV if it has S-video input.
http://www.remotecentral.com/wonder2/index.html - An example of a PC remote. Combine this with the previous comment and you get the power of a PC with the user-friendliness of a DVD player.
Yes I know what "ripping" is. My point is to take that and PUT IT ONTO A DVD PLAYER. It's quite different, and more convenient than if it was to be put on the computer.
The MPAA doesn't want it to happen. There might be approved DVD server systems, but they are costly. The only cost effective devices would be a carousel player, or DIY systems.
This worked for me.
Just buy a DVD player with a USB port on the front.
Philips makes an awesome player.http://www.amazon.com/Philips-DVP5990-1080p-Upscaling-Player/dp/B00158OJ9O/ref=dp_ob_image_ce
Also my friend has one made by Oppo Digital.http://www.oppodigital.com/players.asp
Rip your DVDs onto your computer and then drag and drop the movie file onto your USB flash drive.
Or buy a external 500Gb to 1Tb USB hard drive and copy your movie files to the external hard drive and plus into your DVD player.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_e?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=usb+hard+drive
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Years down the road but still works. I run a few modded original xbox's networked to my home computer. Just buy a dvd remote for the xbox and you have a cheap dvd player which can play just about every format out there. I gave up buying/burning movies, I just download them to my hard drive and play them through the xbox to the tv. I download all the tv shows I care to watch as well, I rarely watch normal tv anymore, stupid commercials.