Revised Poll: Why are you making back-up copies of your DVD?

[Big_glare]

What I meant to ask was are people really backing up their movies? I have a two year old grand daughter who has gotten her hands on a few of my DVDs or those of her parents. I've replaced them with new ones as a result. I purchase the movies for all the Digital Picture the 6.1 surround sound, all the Extra features.

Is there really a need to try to make a back up of a movie which will result in losing all the extras that make DVDs what they are? Are we backing up a Disc fresh out of the plastic wrap for a unforseen disaster or taking a step down from quality to save a few bucks.

Personally I've never copied a DVD and never plan to. I spent too much money on my home theatre system to want to play anything but the purest of DVD videos. I am curious to see what the average opinion is out here.

[Craig Tucker]

I only use DVD-R for creating home movies from a DV cam.

[q1aqza]

Foe 'safe keeping' I back-up some of my DVDs and store them in the house of a family member or close friend ....ermmm I suppose they can watch them if they want too !!!

[shadowrunner]

I only back up my twin 2 year olds videos using IFOEDIT. I have never had to recompress one and lose quality. Most animated films are not that long. I do have to strip the foreign languages and foriegn subtitles out, but I keep the main feature at original quality with original sound. Two year olds don't care about extra features so I dont bother keeping original menus and such. It would be easy enough though using doom9 method.
shadowrunner

[Johnfused]

To make esp. NTSC Japanese materials (esp. documentaries) with subtitles available to students:

1. Directly on their own CD's
2. Via intranet. I want to upload a file that a techie can grab on put on server (saves him having to do the work).

Unfortunately, having done two successfully, DVD2SVCD (the orange smiley thing) now makes the files stretched -- from 42mins original to 50 mins. Means the voices are all deep and slow, it's all out of sync with the subtitles.
Now I can't even get access to the forum! It recognises me by name, but there are no email postings for me to view. Yikes.

Tried DIVx, but after doing a trial DVD NTSC karaoke song successfully, when I try a DVD documentary (42mins) it just says 'Bollocks, piss off.' Which brings me here.

[Redeye07]

I can't vote because I'm not backing up movies.

I'm only interested in making XVCD's of old, out-of-production exercise tapes that I really like and don't want to lose.

Some of them were made in the 80's and are really collectors items now (if you are into exercise videos, that is.)

[P@iNKilleR]

I back up my dvd's coz children have sticky chocolate fingers & its a bugger to get the crap off the dvd!! sounds over the top but 50p dvdr to £15 dvd is a good enough reason for me

[ghoster]

i copy dvds because i am to cheap to pay anywhere form 10 to 30 dolllars when i can copy them and they cost about 2 bucks (dvd-r empty black case and paper for labeling),

[RabidDog]

Theres also the techno challenge aspect... I do it because I can!. They dont want me to, but I can triumph against the ranged might of corporations, just me my pc and the simple guides and software. I also want to put multi films on one DVDr?