What is the main reason you backup dvds?

[yoda313]

Ok I'm sure this has been asked before but lets do an update.

I generally do it for preservation of my originals. Though to be honest I haven't backed up a dvd in a long time.

Sometimes though I would back up a movie to get rid of those user restrictions like the annoying fbi warnings and the company logos.....

How about you?

[lordsmurf]

Some of my discs cannot be replaced, they are long out of print or super rare. Since the technology exists to make a backup, I use it. Would be a fool not to.

Like the poster below me, once or twice I backed up a disc because I was unable to skip the previews on the original disc. Piss on that, I bought the movie, not a disc of damned commercials. PUO is evil technology.

My primary drive in video, however, is content creation and content restoration, especially as it relates to media format shifting (VHS to DVD, for example).



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[träskmannen]

Hard choice - it is a combination. I mainly backup the DVDs for my children (hence my choice - protect the original) but while I'm at it I remove all annoying warnings and restrictions. Those warnings really make me furious! The target group for the DVDs I'm talking about are small children who are not able to read anyway, so the warnings do have an effect - they make the audience frustrated. If my daughter wants to see the teletubbies she expects dancing, corpulent aliens and not five minutes of boring text explaining that her daddy may be a criminal... by the time the text is over, the enthusiasm about watching the program is half-gone as well.

How do you explain what the warning is about for a two-year old anyway?

[Xylob the Destroyer]

Again, I wish this site allowed multiple choices in polls....
Anyway, it's mostly to preserve my discs. Like lordsmurf said -- you can't find some of this stuff anymore.
I'm in the middle of backing up all of my G.I. Joe sets. They only released the first season and half of the second, and now you can't find it anywhere -- they're going for $180.00 USED on amazon.....
I loaned them to my cousin and he scratched one of them Then was when I realized I better back them all up.
Same with Star Trek season sets. They'r not all that hard to find, but damn they're expensive!

I had initially gotten a capture card and burner to convert all my VHS to DVD, but then realized that I was wasting my time with a lot of the stuff that had surround on their DVD release or really cool special effects. For those, I just went out and bought the DVD release and threw the VHS away. I stopped doing all but the comedies.

[lordsmurf]

I'm in the middle of backing up all of my G.I. Joe sets. They only released the first season and half of the second, and now you can't find it anywhere -- they're going for $180.00 USED on amazon......

Rhino releases are like that, they lost most of their licenses 1-2 years ago, so all of their discs are out of print forever. I did all 18 discs of Transformers not long ago, for the exact same reason. I did both a DVD5 shrunk version, and a DVD9 DL version.

[edDV]

When I want to take them out of the house. Like in a car that goes 149 degrees F in a short stop.

[mats.hogberg]

Combination. To keep the originals in mint condish, to watch the main movie without wading thru FBI warnings, scene selections, previews and the other garbage they tend to consider as "added value", stick it to The Man - About everyting except "I don't backup my dvds"

/Mats

[cd090580]

2nd Option

-> to remove PUOP and to enable pan&scan on 2:35:1 movies.

[TBoneit]

I can't stand wading through the crapola they want me to view before the main menu appears. So any DVD I buy costs me extra time and material to make it watchable.

A DVD Blank is cheaper than replacing the remote from pressing the keys to hard in frustration at the warnings, previews and so on.

[solarfox]

I guess I'll toss in my two cents and say that I, too, have a mix of reasons for DVD backups:

(1) Preservation of out-of-print or difficult-to-find originals. This is especially important if I'm taking something to a friend's house for a "movie night" party; having seen the way some people treat their own discs, I'm not letting them scratch up mine!

(2) Removal of "unskippable" lead-ins and prohibited userops -- although I usually only bother when they're particularly egregious, such as Disney's front-loading a half-dozen trailers for their latest soulless direct-to-video "sequels", or some Universal discs where the studio logo was a ridiculously long 2-minute montage of just about every movie they ever did.

(3) Consolidation of multiple programs. Some anime titles are particularly bad about putting one half-hour or 45-minute episode per disc, meaning that you're constantly swapping discs just to watch a single 4- or 6-episode miniseries. I use DVDshrink to slam them all together onto one or two discs just to make them easier to watch.

[Richard_G]

Same as most of the others. I buy a film on DVD to watch the film, not wade through multiple layers of menu. I want to be able to put a disc in the player and have the film play, not have to go through some 20 questions game every time.

[gadgetguy]

I seldom backup my DVDs because most of them aren't worth it, (mostly Dollar store old old movies). There are very few movies that I feel are good enough to be worth owning, much less pay $20+ for, but when I do, I back it up. Movie only to preserve the original. Most of why I come to this site is for my own creations.

[fritzi93]

Haven't done one for quite a while...no recent releases hold much appeal. Anyway, option 2, the adverts they put on DVDs are infuriating.

[NiteLite]

Some of my discs cannot be replaced, they are long out of print or super rare. Since the technology exists to make a backup, I use it. Would be a fool not to.

Like the poster below me, once or twice I backed up a disc because I was unable to skip the previews on the original disc. Piss on that, I bought the movie, not a disc of damned commercials. PUO is evil technology.

Since LS stated my reasons word exact I'll just quote.
Regards,
NL

[babeflover]

To watch them at my own time, whenever i have the time, not when some channel or theatre want me to. i also avoid the animals who go to movie theatres and the little devil (a.k.a. children) that selfish people bring to the movies.

[EddyH]

Initially it was because i wanted some 'free' films Not really into that scene any more. I'm not so poor as that these days (never mind how much the DVD recorder cost! well actually CD recorder, at the time..)

Other major reasons including:
Removing region coding from rare NTSC-only (at the time; now on open sale in PAL format ) discs so that I could watch them with region locked players, including DVDROM.... didn't have many so i switched the region, batch-ripped them with "remove region & macrovision", switched back, burned minimal SL copies, and let them stew on the HD til I got a dual layer writer to do it bitwise
Preserving older and damaged discs
Duplication for educational purposes (well, will be at some point this week).

Mostly I'm now using it for burning my own captures and things legally downloaded from the web (e.g. AMV Hell compilation). Will be used to backup old precious VHS cassettes..... as soon as possible, given that one I was asked to do for my brother's boss's infant son was done too late to salvage the thing. Luckily it was a fairly common Bob the Builder tape, destroyed by his own knackering of the VCR with some foreign object (ah, memories ), but I don't fancy guessing my emotional state should my 23-year-old cassette of Thomas the Tank Engine snap or get mangled before/during the duplication process. (The voices are all wrong on the modern ones! Besides that old thing is in remarkably good condition, it should go in a museum)