Is it too much trouble to make Blu-Ray copies?

[timmus]

I unexpectedly came into the HD and Blu-Ray arena this Christmas, so I'm wondering whether it's worth it to try backing up my copy-protected Blu-Ray movies (just a one for one copy). I'm guessing the main show-stoppers are $400 for a burner and about $10 per Blu-Ray blank, right?

Also how much processing is involved? Does this require many, many hours of reprocessing, or is it simply ripping data onto HD and burning it back out?

Finally I'm aware that Blu-Ray players tend to need updates... so is there a pretty significant risk of my copies becoming unplayable?

I searched back about a month through this newbie board and didn't see any answers.

Tim

[SCDVD]

You can use AnyDvd and ImgBurn to rip and burn but keep in mind that many titles won't fit on a 25GB BD-R disc. Cost of media is a major impediment right now.

[wulf109]

It's true that all BD disks are DL 50GB,but it you extract the movie only many will fit on 25GB BD. DL BD's are $35 each,more than the movie. Transcodeing to a smaller size is currently very slow,10-14 hours on a fast computer.
AnyDVD will rip to your HD but still doesn't completely remove BD+ copyguard. It's a royal pain to backup BD.

[Baldrick]

ANd if you want to transcode to a smaller format use BD Rebuilder.