Copying a DVD

[CopperBrompton]

I'd still have to rip it into an ISO though

Creating an image copy is much faster than ripping, and you have no worries about DRM, etc.

This quote from the article is a bit misleading
"a bunch of DVDs and a cheap Chinese tablet could be the easiest way to entertain the kids on a car journey."
because you still have to create the ISO and get it on the tablet (which at the very least for me involves a card reader and a pair of tweezers!)

Which bit is misleading?

 

[KneesUp]

Creating an image copy is much faster than ripping, and you have no worries about DRM, etc.


Which bit is misleading?

You also need a computer with a DVD player and enough time to create the ISO files If you have a MacBook Air you're stuffed

Is DRM really an issue? I thought the makers of the one I was trying to do had been clever, but as I said earlier it turned out I just hadn't installed some of the files I needed to play and DVD (computer is mainly for work) It was when it occurred to me that the DVD can't have had any 'new' DRM on it because it played on the Playstation2 that I realised it was my mistake! Surely for a DVD to be a DVD it has to play on any DVD player - and given that they have existed for so long, surely almost any software can cope?

 

[CopperBrompton]

You also need a computer with a DVD player and enough time to create the ISO files If you have a MacBook Air you're stuffed

You can use absolutely any USB DVD player.

Is DRM really an issue?

It certainly can be for ripping rather than imaging, yep.