With hard drive space so cheap I would think that someone would come up with a box that I could load all of my DVDs onto hard drives so i could just sit down and scroll through a menu and select what I want. Kind of like a MP3 player only with DVD quality video.
My wife and I have bought many TV programs to watch. The problem is that whenever we want to watch a different program on of us (that would be me) has to get up and search through our library to find the DVD and load it in the player and watch the FBI screen for the billionth time and then wait for the menu to come up to make a selection and wait for the program to start. Hell, I could almost watch half of a show on TV before we get to the actual video.
Why can we load music in boxes and just look at menus to select the song but not video? We can take our songs anywhere but not our videos. Do we have to listen to a 15 second delivery on the consequences of pirating music by the FBI before every song? No.
I need a DVD player that stores 100s of programs (in a proprietary format?) in a portable box (Gamecube size?) that I can take with me to the inlaws or wherever. It has to have a menu system that allows me to make playlists and get to my videos quickly.
I realize I could build one myself somehow but I don't have the time or patience. This would be a real innovative piece of hardware ....... a REAL video iPod.
My wife and I have bought many TV programs to watch. The problem is that whenever we want to watch a different program on of us (that would be me) has to get up and search through our library to find the DVD and load it in the player and watch the FBI screen for the billionth time and then wait for the menu to come up to make a selection and wait for the program to start. Hell, I could almost watch half of a show on TV before we get to the actual video.
Why can we load music in boxes and just look at menus to select the song but not video? We can take our songs anywhere but not our videos. Do we have to listen to a 15 second delivery on the consequences of pirating music by the FBI before every song? No.
I need a DVD player that stores 100s of programs (in a proprietary format?) in a portable box (Gamecube size?) that I can take with me to the inlaws or wherever. It has to have a menu system that allows me to make playlists and get to my videos quickly.
I realize I could build one myself somehow but I don't have the time or patience. This would be a real innovative piece of hardware ....... a REAL video iPod.