'iTunes Replay' On-Demand Video Coming?

[Westside guy]

What if they allowed you to rip your own DVDs, slap some DRM on it and store them in the cloud as well. Then you could have all your media content stored on Apples cloud, stream it to any devices you wanted and since its protected and stored in the cloud the studios would be ok with making a ripped copy of it? Now that is an idea that I think has some legs.

Well, except that the MPAA says ripping your own purchased DVDs is illegal.

Not that their saying so stops some of us... Lately I've been slowly working my way through my DVD library and ripping them onto an old MBP that's getting a second life as a media server for our Tivo HD, thanks to some great open-source free software (pyTivo, streambaby). It's a lot easier to find a movie in a list of files than it is to find a DVD on our messy shelves.

 

[Jakethasnake919]

I would like iTunes to be able to sync my ipod touch wirelessly. I can sync files from my computer or even mobileme. I don't think it would be too much to ask to be able to sync wirelessly at certain intervals.

 

[Arcus]

All this streaming media is going to go no where if the ISPs keep adding capacity per month caps.

 

[wonderbread57]

Hard drives top out at 160GB? Huh? This isn't the 80's. What is AppleInsider smoking that causes long term brain damage?

 

[BoulderBum]

I like the idea of subscription based on-demand streaming TV and older movies (like Netflix), but I hope this isn't the beginning of the end of downloaded content.

I know the studios are more comfortable with streaming (because pirates download their content from iTunes, not BitTorrent ), but it's vital to me to be able to watch videos on my iPod when I don't have an internet connection.

 

[WildCowboy]

Hard drives top out at 160GB? Huh? This isn't the 80's. What is AppleInsider smoking that causes long term brain damage?

The Apple TV's hard drive does in fact top out at 160 GB as they state.