DVD copying

[MnM90]

Hey i am little new to this whole thing of DVD copys ...but this is what i want to do...buy a DVD-RAM and copy my friends DVDs and some from the video store and burn them on to DVD-RW or DVD-R discs and play they in my dvd player...the dvd player is a BOSE 3-2-1 system...it plays CD-R, and CD-RW and DVD but i was wondering if this whole scheme would work out...if not i want to know how to get good quality(DVD or close)movies to play on my tv ...cuz i am tired of watching divx on my lil computer screen...do i need a TV-Out and all that stuff...how much would all of it cost too? thanx for the help

[pinoy2201]

well i have bad news most of the new DVDs out there are more than 4.50gigs(a DVD-R holds that much) and it is ilegal to copy a DVD that not yours