...just curious... MUHAHAHAHAHA

 

You can compress the videos into a DivX video. It is hardly DVD quality, but it's not bad. The process to do so, however, is hard and very long. On top of knowledge and time, you need a lot of harddrive space to copy the entire dvd video to. Also, DivX videos can't be played on DVD players, so unless you like sitting in front of your computer watching movies, it's not all too helpful.

There is also an option called VCD that lots of DVD players can read, but I have no idea how to make them, and their quality is also far from DVD.

Anyone else wish that they would make DVDs without all those extra features and bonus cds and crap in order to lower the price to $10 or less per movie? Now that would be nice..

 

yes yes...10$'s would be nice...

..but free is better! how would someone make a VCD backup?

 

I do not know about VCD. However, if you perform a search on DVD Replication, you should come upon a link for DSDD (something like that) software. However, to download the software is illegal (if anyone really cares). The problem is that even if you "rip" a DVD, you can not use your CDR-RW to recreate the DVD. A CDR-RW only holds about 600mg of info wherease a DVD is about 6-8GB. The software would allow you to copy the DVD to your harddrive but at 6-8GB/DVD, you would need a very large hard drive...not that size matters right?

 

dvd-r's are coming..or they are already out on the marketplace aren't they. I think I've seen them for $500 to $2000. I will get one eventually... not going to be the first on the block like I was witht he dvd player though. the cdr just does have the space as stated earlier.

 

macs come with them for $2400- but the other problem is the blank dvd disks are $10-20 each!

 

I got myself a DVD-R/DVD-RAM combo drive and use it for 4.7GB archives of my system. Pretty convenient. I've been getting blank DVD-R's for like $6.50 a piece, which isn't TOO bad. The only thing is a lot of DVD's are like 6-8GB, so you still have tweak the rip to fit a movie on a DVD-R.... Some copy protected DVD's need something like DeCSS to decrypt the files, but once you decrypt the files, you can build a DVD image and burn a DVD.

 

http://dvd.da.ru/