I would normally agree I think about not caring about copying a DVD except for several things. Like I mentioned the Snow White DVD will not even play at all! Over a year and the kid has not seen it once!
Becuase of protection making it non-working and defective! Most other DVDs we have work fine so far!
WHy should I have to buy a dedicated player and other stuff to watch one movie??
Disks get broke, scratched and drives jam, I know lots of people that have lost CD's in those cheapo 5 disk changers built into the cheap shelf stereo's. At $20 a movie, I don't want the kid dragging the only copy into her room when she has friends over! Sooner or latter it is going to happen, someone will trash a disk or two. I might want to make back ups of those kid type movies, and let them watch those with the originals put safely away
Other wise I mostley just want the VHS and Betas on disks.
Some of the beta movies I have not found on VHS and certainly not on DVD! Not easy to find a beta VCR nowadays
Since I like to watch my movies on the monitor now, with 5.1 sound, the protection on the tapes is a problem, even though I am not wanting to copy them! Some work fine, others don't! SO in order to enjoy the movies I OWN, I need to strip the protection out of some of them if I can.
Also as you said, they are selling us DAMAGED merchandise to begin with! I have Elvira Mistress of the Dark on VHS. Tape is going bad already!!! Only a couple years old! Been watched about 10 -15 times maybe at most! I did luck out and find a second copy of it at Wallmart for only $3 awhile back, so I grabed it, and good thing too since it looks like I will need to open it soon. Only time I ever saw a copy since I bought the first one, and they only had that one then, and never again since!! At least around here where I am at.
I have other movies going bad also that I have not found new copies of, might not even be available anymore. And why, or how many should I have to buy? At $10 each for the cheap ones that you can still find, that's probably close to a thousand dollars alone. Then I got those $15 and $20 ones, and the stuff you can not even find!
Also I like having the disks in a little leather pouch that holds about 100 in the space of a phone book
Much better than taking up a whole wall
Also I am so tired of finding tapes left unwound and laying around, probably half the reason they are going bad! Also the reason I put away the TV and VCR for awhile and no-one watched anything that did not play on the computer! Sometimes I can be a real tyraunt I geuss
Since my system is the only one with a VCR I made sure they re-wound and put away the tapes when they got done watching them!
One more reason I want to put my VHS tapes on disk, tapes get ate! I have had several expensive movies curl up and die inside a VCR over the years, just the same as 8 tracks or cassttes!
Roque,
Ya, you can still blame the manufactors when it don't work! First there is no reason they cannot use that connecter along with all the others they already have on the players! They support about every other type, RCA plugs, S video, fiber ect... But none of that is compatable with alot of NEW TV's unless your getting into the more costly ones many of us don't want! Why buy a $200 -$300 TV just to hook up a $60 DVD player?
My Tv works great, is 14-15 yrs old? It has the same standard connector as many new TV's!
There are still thousands or even milions of old tvs out there, so why not sell to those owners too!
Lots of people have the VCR TV combo units, the DVD player stated it would not even work with those tv's at all, even with the adapter because of the copy protection! So My dad has a really big fancy TV, but no way he can watch a DVD if he wanted because the VCR is built in! He'd have to trash his nearly new TV and buy another!
That's just plain stupid! They are cutting off their own market, then gripping because they are losing sales!!
Thanks for the tip
Maybe I should have looked at that Apex a little closer then
That's what I just returned, a cheapo $60 APex, model 11?? they were out of the model 1200's! If it had a hidden menu to shut off the protection then I could have used it, conected to my vcr then to my TV, would not have needed the adapter! Also I could have had both conected at once, as it should be, just a pass through type connection.
So anyway,
If I don't find a Sony DVD + - RW anytime soon, which format is the best to choose from if I have to make a choice on that. I'm going back to work on an animated cartoon I never finished and will need to write it to the most compatable format for stand alone players and DVD drives.
Although I will copyright my cartoons (if I ever get one done), they will not be copy protected
