best "DVD to DVD" copying connections?....

[AntiGates]

Assuming I have content I have created personally, already on a DVD disk, ..and want to copy the DVD onto a second DVD disk, via consumer video equipment.

The "component video" terminals are regarded has the highest fidelity connection path to deliver an HDTV quality signal to an HDTV monitor. Would this ALSO be the cleanest way to output a playback signal to a DVD-R recordert?...Or is the superiority of the "component video" connection primarily a "display" only better means of connection, leaving S-Video connection to be my best prospects fo a quality "dub"?

I ask because I recently spent quite a bit of time in looking for a DVD player that featured 2 component video outputs, for my conveniance, ..only to discover nearly All have but one, and it is a rare DVD player that even has a true "S-video output #2" available.

just wondering if this is for a good reason (such as not necessary), or if the evil device of copywright holders who believe there simply ARE no legitamit home users who would want to copy a DVD,, unless it was to pirate their forbidden treasures.


Really suprised to see even the high end Dennon and Kenwood "video receivers" costing a couple grand apiece, provide but one single Component video out, but offer 8 and more "S-Video output" 's to interconnect with till the cows come home

[pluche]

Having a second component output won't be of any help : I am not aware of any home recorder that has a component input so you still have to convert the signal !
I you have "home" made DVD to copy, the best way is to copy that on a computer

[AntiGates]

Having a second component output won't be of any help : I am not aware of any home recorder that has a component input so you still have to convert the signal !

the Philips DVD-R deck at the following link has two "component video" input "clusters",..looked at one at a local "good Guys" store, "in the flesh".

http://www.consumer.philips.com/global/b2c/ce/catalog/product.jhtml;jsessionid=ZNQ0GTK...uctId=DVDR985A

Of course, shopping at Good Guys, you soon get tired of hearing that the product you just inquired about,..."is the best possible choice, you ever could make..." etc hence, I came here looking for info that ,.."love or hate" either way, is based upon real world experiance, and not some stale "sales Pitch tech guide", written by salesmen, FOR salesmen

Even a link that will allow me to "RTFM" and inform me on the merit of "S-Video -to- S-Video dubbing versus "component video -to- component video" dubbing, when copying a DVD to another DVD disc,...would be great....

It is knowledge I would like to have, since it might be a "best available" means of copying, some cold, lonely night....and knowledge is power,..etc


I you have "home" made DVD to copy, the best way is to copy that on a computer

Yeah,..*that* is the means of authoring NEW media I will be using,..but, suppose that somehow I manage to "crack through" the glass ceiling placed on the market by the Hollywood nimrod mutual admiration society, and "someone" actually hears that I made a movie once, that wasn't all that bad, and wanted to "buy" a copy of the sucker??

Gotta be prepared man!!! even "I" could end up needing to copy an existing Disc,. while authoring the promising "followup" in the trilogy...."John Holmes was my little brother"...ya know? there could be a demand for such a movie, so I am told...

OK, so ya,..I'm a big dreamer too....."Kais power goo" works on streaming video, don't it?