can you copy dvds

kater1 · Post by **kater1** » Fri Jan 05, 2001 12:07 am

Are there any cd burners that will copy dvds??????

bitSLAP · Post by **bitSLAP** » Fri Jan 05, 2001 12:11 am

Unfortunately DVD burners start at $5 thousand dollars.

The only thing you can do is rip the DVD and compress it so it will fit on a CDR.

Splitfire · Post by **Splitfire** » Fri Jan 05, 2001 2:19 am

You can get DVD-RAM drives for about $600. Far cry from $5000. But you won't be able to make DVDs that will play in a DVD drive since they don't include the encryption algorythms or even make them public. Sort of defeats the purpose of encryption, wouldn't it?

Slugbait · Post by **Slugbait** » Fri Jan 05, 2001 3:17 am

I seem to remember that DVD-RAM drives are designed to create discs that can only be played back in DVD-RAM drives...defeating the purpose of ejecting in the first place, much less the encryption issues.

Maybe things have changed since...

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Fri Jan 05, 2001 11:30 am

no, they still suck! best bet is 2 divx them

Greg

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Sat Jan 06, 2001 12:29 am

Actually, considering how cheap most DVDs are and the fact that few flicks are worth watching more than once or twice (at best) IMHO, you might as well just buy the DVD and be done with it.
Even if a good DVD burner was sold for say $250 (like a very good CD burner costs), it'd take alot of copies to justify that expence compared to the uses that a cdr has.

WeekendWarrior · Post by **WeekendWarrior** » Sat Jan 06, 2001 3:41 am

Not really only about 12 dvd's or so would be 250 dollars , isn't that right?

Delta · Post by **Delta** » Sat Jan 06, 2001 5:55 am

if u really feel the need to copy them, then its best to as greg said -DivX ;-) them.

LikeLinus · Post by **LikeLinus** » Sat Jan 06, 2001 9:04 am

use netflix.com people! they rock.