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2005/11/21-23 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:40673 Activity:kinda low
11/21   Flying to the east coast and trying to decide between getting
        a portable DVD player or  just adding a modular bay DVD drive to my
        Dell laptop. Any good or bad expereiences either way?
        \_ Portable DVD player will have tiny screen and you'll need to lug it.
           Notebook has have a bigger screen and you always take anyway.
           Notebook has a bigger screen and you always take anyway.
           Of course, if you have a desktop replacement notebook, that's a
           problem in terms of size.
           \_ If the Dell is a bit older, the portable player probably has a
              screen with better brightness, contrast and viewing angle.
              \_ Another thing to consider is the battery life.  Older laptops
                 may not have battery life to last through the entire movie,
                 especially with the dvd drive spinning.  I convert my dvds
                 to mpeg4 before any long trips to save the battery life from
                 spinning the drive.
                          \_ Since this is on a plane (AA) : would one of
                             the airplane power converter things be
                             worth the bother ?
                 \_ But doesn't MPEG-4 need more CPU?  Wouldn't it balance out?
                    \_ In my experience, spinning optical drive drained the
                       battery a lot faster than the cpu.  But it may depend
                       on the type of cpu you have in your laptop as well.
                       \_ But if you play it from the optical drive, the OS's
                          power setting can power off the hard disk.
                          \_ I think optical drive + laser consumes more
                             power than a notebook HDD.  And probably the
                             the HDD will spin anyway from swapping or some
                             background task or who knows why.
        \_ Consider ripping the DVD onto your laptop.  You can get it down
           to a ca. 750MB high-res AVI.  Check http://videohelp.com.  You'll probably
           save on battery life and noise (no spinning DVD.)  -John
           \_ Agreed.  Rip an ISO image with DVD Decrypter and then mount it
              with Daemon Tools. --jameslin
              \_ or toss the vobs directly into a decent dvd player (powerdvd,
                 mplayer,etc) --dwc)
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