Slight tangent, but movie DRM is really awful. My younger brother has a developmental disability and one of his favorite things is to watch movies. He’s capable enough to use streaming services but since he grew up with dvds he really likes the tangible part of picking a movie out from the cabinet and watching it.
He’s in need of a personal computer and ideally it’ll be a Chromebook since he’s the most comfortable with that OS. However it would also be great if he could play movies on the computer for travel, or if the tv is occupied. But the difficulty of trying to play a legally purchased movie on a laptop, even not a Chromebook, makes this almost an impossible task. He _might_ be able to use VLC on ChromeOS to play some/all dvds but it’s highly unlikely he’ll be able to watch blu rays.
I’m very tempted to just rip and reburn all of his dvds and blu rays for him so that he can just play the video file off of the dvd.
Not really sure where I’m going with this but fuck DRM.
He’s in need of a personal computer and ideally it’ll be a Chromebook since he’s the most comfortable with that OS. However it would also be great if he could play movies on the computer for travel, or if the tv is occupied. But the difficulty of trying to play a legally purchased movie on a laptop, even not a Chromebook, makes this almost an impossible task. He _might_ be able to use VLC on ChromeOS to play some/all dvds but it’s highly unlikely he’ll be able to watch blu rays.
I’m very tempted to just rip and reburn all of his dvds and blu rays for him so that he can just play the video file off of the dvd.
Not really sure where I’m going with this but fuck DRM.