The "German School of Wellington" is looking for a laptop with DVD drive for younger kids to watch German DVDs while their elder siblings are being language-immersed.
If you have one of those lying around and would be willing to part with it, please get in touch.
Got a 14" Dell Latitude E6420, 2nd gen i5, HDMI, with a brand new 240GB SSD - could part with for around $300 + freight if that was sort of what you're looking for.
I'd agree with Michael - if it's just DVD playback you're after, get a portable DVD player.
Depending on the number of discs you have, unless they are interactive, Transcoding them to MP4 and then just loading them on the Laptop/tablet or USB stick as a file is probably an easier option,
in an educational/school environment scratches and damage can lower the readability of discs fairly quickly..... and this allows the physical DVD to be retained as a master copy..
Depending on the number of discs you have, unless they are interactive, Transcoding them to MP4 and then just loading them on the Laptop/tablet or USB stick as a file is probably an easier option,
in an educational/school environment scratches and damage can lower the readability of discs fairly quickly..... and this allows the physical DVD to be retained as a master copy..
Indeed! Surprised they would be using the physical disks at all.
Yeah I agree - how many DVDs are we talking about? I'm sure if it's just a few someone would be willing to rip them for you for free.
I have an older laptop (~2012) with a DVD drive, but the screen and speakers are crap. I also have an internal DVD/blu-ray drive for a desktop which has scarcely been used.
Thanks everyone for their inputs! The DVD player things don't really work for multiple children watching at once, but encoding the DVDs to solid media makes a lot of sense. We'll try to get access to the school's smart TVs and then make a USB stick.
That is unless someone has a spare laptop lying around they want to donate to the cause ;)
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