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hi there, i,m going to ask a silly question, but can you record a pre-recorded dvd onto your hard drive of your dvd recorder, then copy onto a blank dvd from the hard drive. many thanks

Commercial dvd`s use copy protection.You can cooy one to our DVDR HDD from a player using a special lead,but this means you will not get menus ,extras 5.1 sound etc.
The best way for copying commercial discs is on a PC with something like dvd shrink and Nero.
Your burned copy will then be `copyable` to your HDD.PC copying retains 5.1 sound and menus etc

You can copy anything from the source to a destination drive but whether it is usable is open to question.

If you want to back-up a DVD then use DVD shrink to rip the files then Nero to burn the ripped DVD files to blank DVD/R.
If you want to back-up a DVD go to http://www.dvdshrink.org and download the latest version of Shrink then use Nero for burning the back-up to a blank DVD/R.
DVD Shrink and Nero is about the best way to do it so give it a try.

Choagy FFCUK The SPL :)

PS Sorry, I misread the post . I mis-understood the post and replied believing you were hoping to copy from a DVD to a DVD/R on your PC.
That said, I would guess that if the DVD did not have copy protection then you would have no problem copying to H/D.
However if the DVD did have protection then you would not be able to copy it.
Another problem may be that say you were backing up The Return Of The King from a DVD to H/D then to a DVD/R you would have to reduce the quality settings to fit the DVD on to one 4.7 Gig DVD/R as the original is about 7.8 Gig in size and will not fit on a standard DVD/R.

Apologies for the reply, I`ve just arsed seven cans of Stella :D

This item was edited on Friday, 7th January 2005, 23:13

And although it`s so easy to do, it`s also illegal ;)

Including "backup" purposes which is where the whole argument lies, that you can`t even duplicate your own DVD in case someone or the kids break it, but you can duplicate your £250 PC software for the same reasons.....

Jimbo : oÞ

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