with netflix and movies always available for watching or downloading, is there a point in me storing movies on my macbook or an external hard drive anymore? it almost makes more sense just to download, watch and delete when needed
with netflix and movies always available for watching or downloading, is there a point in me storing movies on my macbook or an external hard drive anymore?
What if you want to watch a movie and the internet connection is down? What happens if the Netflix site is having problems? What if you want to watch a movie when you're on the road and no internet connection is available?with netflix and movies always available for watching or downloading, is there a point in me storing movies on my macbook or an external hard drive anymore? it almost makes more sense just to download, watch and delete when needed
Great answer, but can someone please help me with all this movie ripping- even when i download a movie i get kind of confused.
Once a movie is on your computer and you convert it to work on your apple tv or iPhone , what do u do with the original version? do you just delete the other copies and keep the ones in iTunes? hmmm does that mean that music I've transferred to iTunes have duplicates too?
Yes you delete the original and most likely you have ever song saved twice. Once in itunes and once in your download folders if you are downloading songs outside of iTunes.
Not to butt in, but that's only the case if itunes it set to manage your library (it's an options that is on by default though), if it is not set to manage the library, then it just adds links to files to itunes when you add them in, meaning you need to keep the original.
Yeah I get why people might not want to store lots of films.
Personally I got caught up in buying DVD's when they were booming, and don't want to just throw them away or sell them for next to nothing, but I want that shelf space back. For now I am ripping them and boxing them up. It's not a big time commitment, and I have the storage/backup space.
When I feel that streaming services can provide most of what I have ripped, I will delete the films and take the movies to the charity shop (if they still take them!).
I think it might be a couple of years yet though.