I have ripped a few movies for the iPod, but I don't have Apple TV yet.
I have found that ripping TV shows on DVD is the most useful. Two seasons of 3rd Rock, two seasons of King of Queens and one season of Married With Children provides quite a bit of variety for the grandsons when traveling.
What I would like to be able to do is build a home library of popular TV shows and movies on the hard drive for easy access to view on a home television [in high definition]. Bet we don't see that for awhile.
However, with the DVR hooked to the TV, I really don't use the DVDs for entertainment much at all. And, I never use the computer to watch ripped TV shows or movies. There is just too much feed coming from the DVR. I set it to capture and hold 2 episodes of each of my selections, thereby allowing a rich variety in the can at any given time. After watching one, I delete it. It only captures programming that I'm really, really interested in, and I never have enough time to watch it all. And, that is with the ability to FF through commercials, dropping 1 hour shows down to ~45 minutes.
I didn't know that they had bumped the Apple TV's storage up to 160GB. Thanks. That may be the stroke that makes me buy one. |
