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z0diac
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_ 		4. January 2003 @ 14:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Otherone: true (re: prices) but look at CDs/CD burners and how they came down. A 2X CD burner was $1000 and blanks were $15 a piece. Give DVD burners a year. This time next year you'll get them for $150 and blanks for 60cents on a spindle. The true drawback is the 4.7g limit. So until they come out with dual-layered burners the industry doesn't have anything to worry about. What the industry DOES have to worry about is the better DVD ripper->compression methods (divx/xvid) where people can rent a DVD, rip it into a small 700 meg file and send it out quickly on their cablemodem over the internet. Within 5 years trading movies via email attachments will be common. I think THAT is what they should worry about. Realistically... as net speeds increase and everything goes digital there'll be no stopping it.
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Otherone
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_ 		4. January 2003 @ 14:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I use 4X discs I get for $2.90 at ESBuy.com Absolutely. It is ok to make personal backups. I don't know what the fuss is either. They are mainly after the css decryption programs that make it possible to work with DVD data. DVDXcopy does not really decrypt. It intercepts the video after it is read by a reader and then encoded free of decrytion. A loophole approach as far as the legality is concerned. Rather clever in fact. Where are all these blackmarket videos? I have not seen them. Making it illegal to copy is not going to stop the ones that already have the software and mass production machines anyway. I regard the copyright lawyers as no more than legal terrorists working for the entertainment industry looking to make even more easy money... I know my views may seem a little hard-core, but these people are trying to take away personal freedom.
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z0diac
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_ 		4. January 2003 @ 23:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just created the MovieDupe Database which is basically a simple listing of movies that will backup onto only 1 DVD instead of needing to be split. It's here:

http://MovieDupe.zeroreality.com

Everyone be sure to add what you know will fit onto one disc.
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Otherone
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_ 		5. January 2003 @ 08:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Zodiac: nice disclaimer. I added a couple of entries. I think ALL movies under a certain length will go on one DVD. Dopn't know the exact cut-off size.
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z0diac
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_ 		5. January 2003 @ 09:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Actually the movie length doesn't have much to do with it - it's the bitrate it was done at. xXx which is like a 2+hr movie fits onto one DVD, whereas Zoolander at 89mins will not.

Thanks for the updates - check back to the page often. I already received an email from a visitor saying he just got a burner and was going to go rent a slew of movies to see what would work with Xcopy, and post to the database. (of course, that's not what the db is for - it's for personal backups). But use it for your own likings...

http://MovieDupe.zeroreality.com
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amber1
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_ 		5. January 2003 @ 20:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I got Zoolander to fit neatly on just 1 dvdr.
Ifoedit 1, dvdxcopy 0. If you cut out all unneeded steams, sub pics, menue. it fits just fine. This is one great advantage of "backing up" movies manually.
Take care all.
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z0diac
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_ 		5. January 2003 @ 20:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Bwah.. I tried Ifoedit and couldn't figure it out. The version I grabbed was like half German, I had no step-by-step guide, I opened up a vob on my dvd just to screw around with the program and got all weird variables/numbers and crap. Basically if I can't figure a program out myself in 5 mins or if it doesn't have a wizard, I skip past it :) (except Adobe Premiere :)
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amber1
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_ 		5. January 2003 @ 21:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hi zodiac

Ifoedit is a bit scary at first. But there is a ton of info about it on the net. Once you got it figured out, its great. you can really do a lot with it. Like stripping steams, etc.This will knock down the size of the movie quite a bit where with dvdxcoy you need 2 disc, ifoedit you need only one. PS: ifoedit in english can be found everywhere.
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