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Not sure why people are so excited about iso mounting.
I suppose it is marginally more convenient to have it included if all you ever want to do is mount them .
No biggie. Plenty of free isomounting software already available. If you have simple needs, then this is good WinCDEmu - the easiest way to mount an ISO. And more... ( it also creates iso's). Works great on win7.
If you want to do more than just mounting you would need a full isohandler anyhow.
Like this: PowerISO - Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive
the free (unregistered ) version does almost everything - the only limitataion of the free version is you are restricted to editing only up to 300mb. It is also great for writing iso to flash
Hi there
300 MB -- not much use -- waste of time if you need to create / edit iso's . 300 MB would probably make you about 5 mins of decent quality video !!!!!. this really is of no use to man or beast.
The point about mounting ISO's is that the OS can do it directly without you having to install some 3rd party software to do it.
Remember also that the iso format itself might not exist for too much longer anyway -- DVD and CD physical media aren't long for this world in any case.
These days if I play a DVD I'll just mount the ISO with w8 and play with VLC media player -- and I can stream them as well to an external DVD (domestic) machine too..
I keep an external DVD writer just for the few times I need to rip a DVD -- probably won't be doing too much of that in future as modern DVD machines can record direct to HDD and also have USB input to play stuff from external USB devices anyway.
Can't be too long now before DVD's are available as ISO downloads or even supplied on USB sticks / Micro sdHC cards instead of physical DVD's -- should be cheaper and less polluting manufacturing anyway.
A tiny 32 Gb micro sdHC card could store up to approx. 7 "standard" DVD's on it !!!!
Can't see either the CD or DVD now lasting much longer.
When I'm travelling now and I want to watch movies - I just plug a micro sdHC card into my phone -- and depending on the length of journey either plug the phone into the laptop via its usb cable and watch the movie on the laptop or for shorter journeys watch the movie on the smartphone itself. My smartphone will play .iso files and the computer will too of course.
The Samsung Galaxy III s screen is just about OK for watching movies for a shortish time -- say 2 hrs or so -- or on a plane where it's not always convenient to get a laptop out --especially in "Cattle Class" seats --is it me or are plane seats becoming more cramped --I'm not getting fatter or overweight myself so it's not due to ME. !!
Cheers
jimbo
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