Best way to backup DVD collection

Wrong, wrong, and wrong. You certainly do a lot of assuming. You have
no idea how many DVs he has, how long it would take to back them up,
or whether or not he deems it worth it. What he said is that he was
looking for the best way to back his DVDs up. So until he gets the
answer he needs, it is wrong to assume it on his mind.

If he has one DVD its not worth doing.
If he has one thousand DVDs its not worth doing.

That was wrong all the other times you implied it. And it is still
wrong.

If he deems it worth it, then its because he hasn't investigated it, or
its because he has a special circumstance he hasn't disclosed... perhaps
he's moving to a small island in antarctica where getting replacements
is not a trivial exercise...but that hasn't been disclosed, and its
certainly not 'normal'.

He hasn't investigated it, but he decided that he wants to back his
DVDs up anyway? Well Duh.

He asked for recommendations, I gave one. Perhaps he hadn't considered
that backing up ones entire DVD collection is a waste for most people.
(yes, whole DVD collection, that's what the OP said, not just a few kids
movies or something).

You don't know that his "whole DVD collection" doesn't consist of
"just a few kids movies or something". But it's irrelevant anyway.

I'm stumped as to why you feel the need to pre-screen the
recommendations that were made for him.

Why don't you recommend him some life insurance? That also wouldn't be
answering his question...

If I asked for the best place to buy monster cables someone here would
surely pipe in and advise me that it wasn't worth the money. Would you
spend a week arguing with him too... because he didn't 'answer the
question' or made assumptions about the 'relative worth of Monster cables'?

What does this have to do with you trying to convince everyone not to
back up their DVDs? I have yet to maintain that in all this, you have
yet to answer his question. Perhaps like me you don't have a good
answer. But At least I'm not completely tossing his question aside to
convince him what he wants is a bad idea when it is a good one.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

"PurpleJesus" wrote in message
om...
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: Go read this and keep clapping:
: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/0....ap/index.html
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: Is insurance going to cover that? I can't believe you
: people actually suggest home owners insurance to cover DVDs.
: That's absurd.
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DVD rot is MOSTLY myth.
It says 15 to 20 % of his discs exhibited "rot".
That tells me something is SERIOUSLY wrong with his method of caring for
discs.
I have over 3000 CDs and have not noticed ONE rotted one.

Insurance is the best thing to "back-up" your DVDs.
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LG has a Dual Lay out for $75

"L Alpert" wrote in message
news:[email protected]_s52...
| John Smith wrote:
| You can try backing it up with DVD backup and then burning them with
| Clone DVD. It usually works. But keep in mind that most of the dual
| layer discs [9GB] have to be compressed [by 50%] before burning them
| onto 4.7GB discs.
|
|
| Sony has a dual layer burner out for $200.
|
|
| "Andrew and Helen Novotski" wrote in
| message .. .
| Hi there,
|
| After recently having a bunch of DVDs stolen from my place, I've
| decided that I want to back up my entire collection. Luckily the
| ones that were taken were easily replaceable, but I realized I'd be
| really depressed if some of my rarer and favorite movies were lost
| or damaged somehow.
|
| My question is, what is the best way to back them up? I'm pricing
| DVD burners at the moment. From what I can tell, software is the
| big question though. I know DVD X Copy is the big name, but they're
| getting sued and can't include the decryption code in the package
| anymore. What's the most effective and cost-effective alternative?
|
| Thanks much,
| Andrew
|
|

"seascape" wrote in message ...
LG has a Dual Lay out for $75

Yes, but back in MAY, when this thread was started, dual-layer burners
may very well have cost close to $200... In any event, the dual-layer
discs themselves still cost in the area of $8-$10 each. Single layer
discs can be had for far less than a buck each.

"L Alpert" wrote in message
news:[email protected]_s52...
| John Smith wrote:
| You can try backing it up with DVD backup and then burning them with
| Clone DVD. It usually works. But keep in mind that most of the dual
| layer discs [9GB] have to be compressed [by 50%] before burning them
| onto 4.7GB discs.

Or you can delete parts you MAY consider unimportant, such as extras
or previews of other movies before burning, thus applying far less
compression to the actual movie itself.
|
|
|
| "Andrew and Helen Novotski" wrote in
| message .. .
| Hi there,
|
| After recently having a bunch of DVDs stolen from my place, I've
| decided that I want to back up my entire collection. Luckily the
| ones that were taken were easily replaceable, but I realized I'd be
| really depressed if some of my rarer and favorite movies were lost
| or damaged somehow.
|
| My question is, what is the best way to back them up? I'm pricing
| DVD burners at the moment. From what I can tell, software is the
| big question though. I know DVD X Copy is the big name, but they're
| getting sued and can't include the decryption code in the package
| anymore. What's the most effective and cost-effective alternative?
|
| Thanks much,
| Andrew
|
|