I came here from IQfy, I am looking for a device that does the following:
>Plays discs
>Can be easily transported
IQfy told me to get am old laptop this is what I was thinking of:
>Toshiba Tecra or Satellite from 1990s
>Famously reliable, even if not the best for the time.
I am also looking at Portable DVD Players from the following companies:
>Panasonic
>Zenith
>Sony
>RCA
>Audiovox
>Craig(?)
I was hoping that Jensen made one, since my Jensen Portable CD Player is great, but from what I can find, they make no such device.
All help is appreciated.
P.S: No I do not want your latest doohickey, I just need it to do the two above tasks, nothing more.
Picrel is one of the Panasonics that I am considering.
Just get a Thinkpad x301
My budget is $200, Thinkpad may be doable, but the Apple is almost entirely out of the question. Is a Powerbook decent enough, though?
It's will work but the Thinkpad would be better at playing DVDs
Sorry that I forgot to mention my budget.
Also, I have heard problems with Windows XP on Thinkpads (XP is my preferred version of Windows, since I struggle to operate Windows 8 and beyond). I could try to use Vista or 7 (I really do not want to use Vista, though), but I still would prefer XP.
X301 has official xp support
That is good. Found one on eBay for $50, but I need to buy a battery and a copy of XP. Good deal?
Battery's cost 100 dollars for the x301. If you want to save money t430s are going for around 50 dollars fully functional on ebay
Install gentoo
What the hell is a Gentoo? I don't want to install Malware on my laptop like the last time I tried downloading something.
Silly willy, Gentoo isn't malware, WINDOWS is. Gentoo is GNU/Linux. Its Open Source software that you can use to replace Windows XP with, and actually have a functioning computer to watch your porn on.
How does this compare to Ubuntu?
The trips and dubs are really getting me interested.
I don't know I don't use anything that came from Africa. I use Arch btw. If you're going to go the Debian route, just use Debian. You don't need any of Debian's children when their father died a while ago. His spirit is within itself.
Non-meme answer tho: Ubuntu is shit, and so is every distro based on it. Use Fedora Xfce Spin if you need something with low resource usage and still decent.
>trips
>dubs
Yes, you absolutely must install linux to your shitpad. Using XP will make your life hell.
BRO. Fricking Dubs twice now.
INSTALL FRICKING GENTOO THE DUBS DEMANDS IT.
Just get a MacBook Pro dude
Holyshit
It doesn't have a DVD drive moron
Dvd drive on a laptop was a thing twenty years ago
Its gone
Get a MacBook Pro for movies
BluRay movies have digital redeem codes so you can have a physical library and a digital library simultaneously
Drive for Uber holyshit
Youre working for your retirement, remember that
I am working for my father's healthcare costs, anon. He has had a stroke, a heart attack and a slip and fall in the past sixth months.
Unfortunate
You have my condolences
Thank you.
OP, you want an HP Probook, whatever size you are comfortable with. Choose from 12.5", 13.3", 14", and 15.6" screens. I believe the last Probook with an optical drive was the 650 G4.Definitely within your budget.
Or a portable DVD player from Sony, but make sure to read reviews.
The added benefit of the laptop is that you can also use Netflix, Youtube, etc. You may say you don't need this, but with the convenience available to you, you are extremely likely to wind up using it. If an old DVD gets lots or starts dying of disc rot, stuff like Youtube may be the alternative to watching whatever movie got screwed.
Macbooks are for dumb, vain roasties.
Both seem solid, I will weigh these options alongside the x301.
Not much of an Apple person to begin with and I do not like MacBooks (felt like a step backwards from Powerbooks). So I never really considered any MacBook as an option.
i'm not sure i understand the purpose here, like sure you want to play dvd's, but specifically only portable dvd players or 90's laptops? portable dvd players are a 00's thing, and most of not all laptops with dvd drives are also a 00's thing (though you could put a dvd drive in some older laptops), only high end 90's laptops are fast enough to play a dvd, dvd playback may be trivial now, but it was a high end format at the time
if it's just a the cost, i'm sure you can find a 00's laptop that has a dvd drive for cheap, then just replace its' battery or the cells in its' battery
most portable DVD players, from what I remember, had very bad screens.
You think a dude trying to watch DVD's on old shit cares about the screen?
Also, 360p is all I need, really.
Man, you can watch a lot of DVDs at that res. I tried watching an old DVD a few days ago and the quality was bad.
Yeah, I really do not want to go above 720 HD if I can, but I would do an older laptop, since it can do more, though I do not need it to do more.
Ah, but atleast if you go with the laptop option, you'd be able to download video files and watch them easily.
Yeah, but I would also like the files to be played on a television. Any experience with using flash drives on televisions? (All of the ones in my possession have USB ports).
Regular and bootleg DVDs. Bootlegs were burned on a HP Pavilion A367C and were copies of the Blockbuster releases.
I have no gaming console (my Mother gave away my 3DS some years ago).
Assuming the laptop has hdmi you can use it as a dvd player, if you connect it to the tv. If it's old and can't handle doing that because you have a 4k tv then you can try lowering the output resolution.
I have a 1080 UHD. I could probably use my current laptop for that, but then I need something to play DVDs on the go (at the hospital, uni, visiting my grandmother, etc), again.
Honest question: How many DVDs do you carry at once?
I got a shitty little Android Tablet for like $50 and it can hold like 60+ movies and 16 tv shows easily, and it emulates games and lets me read magazines and pdfs. Surely a Tablet + Pirating shit is easier than using a portable DVD player.
Usually 5-10 DVDs, sometimes more.
How much is an Android Tablet? It is free if I have T-Mobile OS instead on it, but it is a limited system that prevents downloads.
It honeslty depends on your budget. I This little dude is like $56 (or 19 McDoubles + Tax) and is fine for videos. The only reason why it has 3.5 stars is because it takes hours to charge, but it does what tablets to, video, text, games, ect. You can probably find a cheap android tablet used, like a Galaxy Tab, for a decent price.
Then you just torrent your videos, load it to your tablet, and you're good. I use them for PDF files a lot because I like math books.
What Torrent reader should I download for free?
On the tablet itself: LibreTorrent is good. Its free. On your computer: Transmission is good too. Alternatively, there are tons of websites rip video files from.
Also, you can literally download video from any streaming service using a video ripper, and load the files to your tablet.
I do not have a streaming service, I think that they are ripoffs.
They are, thats why I rip their content for free.
Panasonic tablets are more expensive and they have a stronghold on ''Tough Tablets'' for people that work with hazardous environments. Panasonic is one of the very few companies trying their hardest to make an indestructible tablet, so they cost more.
Sony's tablets (the xperia line) are rare and mainly sold in Japan. But they do exist.
I personally use Samsung Galaxy Tablets, but Lenovo has the best quality to price point.
Good to know. I found an Xperia on Mercari for $33 it has some minor screen damage, knowing Mercari's fees, it will cost $60 when all said and done;
Alright. Does Sony, Pansonic or a similarly reputable company make a similar tablet?
My Grandmother had an Audiovox which had a great screen, I limited to the above brands since I had a feeling that they were good quality makes.
Arch and Debian, got it (really need a Linux Crash Course).
If you use regular dvds, the player. The laptop if you are burning dvds yourself, and you might be better off burning an mp4/mkv to a disc directly rather than authoring a dvd the traditional way because you'll be able to go above 720x480 if say you were to take a high quality rip and compress it to a filesize (as mp4/mpv/mkv) that will fit on a dvd-r. Be aware that you'll need to use a media player to use the file, I don't think any blu-ray/dvd player can play a file directly off a disc, normal dvds are authored a certain way (muh industry standards...) which requires some metadata be found by the player, without it the player won't recognize the disc format. If you were going to use a modded game console to do this you need to use joliet format for the console to browse the files. I use imgburn, I've put mp4 on burned dvds, and got them to play on homebrew (using ps4 jailbreak), but your experience will vary because some homebrew media players are dogshit, i.e. they were built to read files off usb drives, limited support for browsing to other directories on the console, including the optical drive. It's worth sacrificing a disc to do this, assuming you know of a console with mp4/mkv... support, and a decent homebrew media player. This brings me to something kinda related, I think. The ps4 officially CANNOT play cds or cd-rs, but if you want a music disc to play on ps4 (while jailbroken) you can use a dvd full of wav files, I think, maybe even mp3 are supported, but I didn't experiment long with this because the media player developers were gone a while, I lost interest, but I planned on asking for optional support to enable reading from the optical drive rather than only usb. I'm sure even the wii/wii-u and possibly the newer xbox models (jailbroken) can read these file types using homebrew.
From experience (counting bytes, size on disc, in windows file properties, etc...) 4465MB is the max filesize I use when putting an mp4/mkv/mpv..., any larger will make imgburn say the file is too big to fit on the disc, and this is using many blank dvd brands (sony, memorex...), on a regular dvd-r, obviously will be much larger if you use dual layer blanks. The max content of a blank dvd on the factory print is always theoretical, some space is probably used for a file table, or something to do with bootable behavior. Forgot to mention this in the last post.
recordable dvd's vary slightly between -r/+r/-rw/+rw, but all the 4.7GB ones do have at least 4,700,000,000 bytes (some very slightly more), which is 4,482MiB. however that doesn't include any filesystem overhead
oh and this is the standard limit, while i haven't overburned a dvd as far as i recall, i don't see why that wouldn't be a thing for dvd's as well, where there may be slightly more recordable surface available past the minimum standard, but that will vary between brands
lots of dvd players support playing loose files not in dvd format, actually, many even supporting things like avi/mpeg-4 part 2/mp3 "divx/xvid" files common in the '00s, these are more efficient than dvd's codecs