burning format

[Viciousness of Pills]

hey,

I am living in Europe and I am awaiting a few DVDs (movies) from a friend who lives in America.

These movies were privatley filmed ripped on the computer and put on DVD. The format is NTSC. No copy protecion on it.

My question is:
If I buy a DVD burner in Europe, like a Plextor 712. Is it possible to make a 1:1 copy of this DVD even though its format is NTSC ? Will the copying take any effect on the DVD, the movie, frame rate or anything else ?

Maybe this question seems abit odd, but regarding to VCRs. To make a copy of a NTSC tape here in Europe you either need a VCR converter which is about 800 US$ or two NTSC VCRs.

thx in advance

VoP

[flaninacupboard]

No, you won't hve a problem. DVD discs are like cd's or floppy discs, they just contain data. a 1:1 copy has no effect whatsoever.

Commercial DVD's do have region coding, but yours will not.

[Viciousness of Pills]

ok thanks very much...

At first I thought it would depend on where I buy my DVD burner, like only a DVD burner from an NTSC format using country could burn it right 1:1 in NTSC.

I'm going for the Plextor A712 then...

[regular8mm]

I'm from America and now in the UK; I bought my DVD burner here. It has multi formats in it so I could burn anything, normally I only burn NTSC, and they play on my UK widescreen TV nicely.

I worry about field dominance for when I go back though.