Retro gaming and media rips.
You can literally pop a ps2 game and just play with pcsx2, don’t even have to rip it. Given the recent pushes towards “you’ll own nothing and fuck you if you don’t like it” it isn’t surprising to me that a company is offering a path back to media ownership.
Based on the specs for the machine, that’s the goal as well. I wouldn’t consider a 16 GB kit sufficient for much else than a media/web machine anymore, and that’s the default on the advertised rig
Armand1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Backing up Blu-rays and watching them on your device.
Unlike with music, you can’t buy DRM-free Blu-ray quality movies outside of Blu-ray. If you stream a show or movie, even if you have “bought”, you don’t own it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
You can torrent blu rays. And if you already own the disc, it’s probably even legal.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Someone has to rip it in the first place.
I prefer to rip my own, as well as CD’s and DVD’s I already own. I also do a lot with retro hardware that doesn’t always have a USB port.
BluRays are also fairly decent for offline, offsite backups, though writable media is getting expensive.