Media Intoxication
Jan. 26th, 2009 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snousleWould you believe that just the other day I ripped a CD for the first time? I was pretty impressed - you can set up Windows Media Player to rip disk after disk, just pop it in and it spits it back out in five minutes. With album and track info automagically downloaded. Of course, when you have an import disc with, like, thirty tracks, each one of them by a different composer and artist with foreign names containing lots of annoying diacriticals, it decides to leave you on your own. Still...
I know this is old hat for most of you but being an old-fashioned kind of guy I found it pretty amazing. ;-) I've gone a little nuts ripping our collection.
I'm also very surprised to discover that it is possible to rip DVDs as well. I thought there was some sort of encryption involved. I knew one could get hacker tools to decode them, but this is with regular commercial software (Cyberlink PowerDirector, specifically), and given recent lawsuits and such I thought that was considered illegal.
Also watched a Blu-Ray disc for the first time as well. I browsed the Netflix list of blu-ray movies and most of them were the usual stupid crap - but There Will Be Blood stuck out as an excellent candidate for hi-def pleasure. They should have called it StubbleVision - I swear, you can see every bristle! [Swoon] Great film, absolutely riveting. Sort of like Scent of Green Papaya done as a Western.
All this media exposure has made me feel a little bit dizzy. I'm not quite used to it.
I know this is old hat for most of you but being an old-fashioned kind of guy I found it pretty amazing. ;-) I've gone a little nuts ripping our collection.
I'm also very surprised to discover that it is possible to rip DVDs as well. I thought there was some sort of encryption involved. I knew one could get hacker tools to decode them, but this is with regular commercial software (Cyberlink PowerDirector, specifically), and given recent lawsuits and such I thought that was considered illegal.
Also watched a Blu-Ray disc for the first time as well. I browsed the Netflix list of blu-ray movies and most of them were the usual stupid crap - but There Will Be Blood stuck out as an excellent candidate for hi-def pleasure. They should have called it StubbleVision - I swear, you can see every bristle! [Swoon] Great film, absolutely riveting. Sort of like Scent of Green Papaya done as a Western.
All this media exposure has made me feel a little bit dizzy. I'm not quite used to it.
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Date: 2009-01-26 07:07 pm (UTC)"Good... Good. The Force is strong with you. A powerful Media Lord you will become. Tony Berno, you are one with the Order of the Media. Henceforth, you shall be known as... Darth... Snousle."
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Date: 2009-01-26 08:09 pm (UTC)You know, "Who's a terrifying Sith Lord? You are! Yes you are!" followed by funny mouth noises.
DARTH SNOUSLE!
Date: 2009-01-26 09:45 pm (UTC)