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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2001 12:07 am
by kater1
Are there any cd burners that will copy dvds??????
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2001 12:11 am
by bitSLAP
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2001 2:19 am
by Splitfire
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?
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2001 3:17 am
by Slugbait
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...
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2001 11:30 am
by nexus_7
no, they still suck! best bet is 2 divx them
Greg
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 12:29 am
by EvilHorace
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.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 3:41 am
by WeekendWarrior
Not really only about 12 dvd's or so would be 250 dollars , isn't that right?
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 5:55 am
by Delta
if u really feel the need to copy them, then its best to as greg said -DivX ;-) them.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 9:04 am
by LikeLinus
use netflix.com people! they rock.