Everyone has their preferences for buying a hard copy of a movie or downloading it/storing it in the cloud.
I prefer to buy the disk, DVD or blu-ray depending on the "visual stunningness" of the movie. I don't want to rely on a movie needing to be authenticated in iTunes to watch it. I also am apprehensive about licenses being withdrawn and not being able to watch the movie at all.
I own the this Samsung Blu-ray drive http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SE-50...&qid=1394468774&sr=8-2&keywords=bluray+burner.
It's plug and play and I have been very satisfied with it. I also upgraded to an iMac with a 3TB fusion drive for the purpose of storing my movies. An external hard drive would work just as nicely. I got the iMac for the storage and to have a bigger screen to work from - nothing to do with my movie collection.
Nice. Thanks for that info. I started ripping the other day. I did my three Bourne DVDs using MakeMKV and Handbrake. Seemed to work well. Each file is a little over 1GB after converting to M4V format, which isn't bad. Subtitles are there too, which I was unsure about. It takes a while to do but is pretty nice to have my own digital file. The only thing is it would be so much easier/quicker to find a torrent of my movies to use as a digital "backup" and even though it's not exactly legal, neither is ripping from a disc I own, right? And if both are used for back-up purposes, I don't know if there's real difference or not other than the satisfaction of doing it myself. Thoughts?
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