Burned dvd's

warviper

Sorry I still dissagree I have a kid that works for me he wants to sell me movies for 7 bucks a piece there is a verry real and obvios difference. FYI he used DVDX copy. I feel that there is a missconception about digital that it is the same every time but it is not.

polktycoon

To clear things up with dvd burning, here's what i offer:

2 burned Dvd's

The first dvd will use no compression. It will be the movie only with 2ch and 5.1 sound. No extras.
Choose from the list:

Final Fantasy: Spirits Within
Red Planet
The Rock
Thomas Crown Affair
Ghostbusters 2
Scary Movie
Replacement killers
Star trek: generations
Star trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: First Contact

The second Dvd will use compression.It will be the movie only with 2ch and 5.1 sound and Dts. No extras.
The only one that I have is The Mummy.

So if you have high end equipment and are curious about the quality, this is your chance. The first 3 requests will be sent out free of charge.
email address is jonesb15@adelphia.net

warviper

Wasnt sure if he was talking to me but I sent him an email.

wallstreet

Originally posted by warviper
Burned copys are not as good. It is not possible to move that much info in pure code from disks to hd then hd back to disc and not lose some of the code. You will notice it if you have proscan player and hdtv combo. even if you could burn disc strait to disc you would still lose information.

Steve was correct. If Warviper's opinion were true, it would be impossible to ever copy a large digital file. Forget the fact that it's stored on a CD. Furthermore, DVD's are not HD. A high definition picture contains either 720 lines (progessive) , 1080 lines (interlaced), or 1080 lines (progressive for LcOS).

Kpt_Krunch

me thinks people are getting a bit confused on this thread - HD is used as an acronym for Hard Drive, not High Definition.


As for bit for bit copy - as I stated before, NO ONE I've seen yet has been able to tell the difference between a DVD XCopy DVD & the real thing.

Another area I think people are getting mixed up on is the copies that people make from Internet downloads. I actually rent the original movie, I then use DVD X-copy to make a duplicate. It is 1's & 0's, there is nothing special.

I also use Nero to make backups of my PS2 Games, it is the same scenario. Except I can't compress the PS2 games. The backups work fine.

I do this so when the High Definition DVD's come out, I won't need to 'repurchase' my library again.

For those of you that don't want to make the effort, and buy the DVD's outright, good for you. But don't start saying "this isn't as good as that" . Most people are comparing Internet downloads - which by the way are also an 'exact' representation when burned. Unfortunately, a lot of the movies downloaded on the internet are not that good to begin with.

warviper

Dangerboy had a post talking about different cds, gold and regular and what I got fromit was the fact that gold tend to be from original masters while regs were copys of copys and the jist was that you lose some quality.

MFSL pressed theirs on gold because it's suppose to be better dynamics.. and last longer.. their CD's were pressed from a direct copy of the original master recordings.. whereby aluminumumnmumm discs are made from a copy, of a copy of a copy off the master.
Each time you make a dub off a copy.. the quality goes down. yes even a digital domain.

That was his post and I agree.

Link
here

hljones821

The quality depends on the length of the movie. I use DVD Decrypter and CloneDVD which backup to a single DVD. They are extremely easy to use. Ther eare 2 types of commercial DVDs, DVD 5 and DVD9 (dual layer). The DVD 5 disks will copy 1 to 1 and have no compression. I have a Mitsubishi 42" 16:9 HD RP with Panasonic RP62 (w/ Fourodja DCDi)Progressive Scan DVD and these look just like the original. The dual layer disks have much more information and you can select just the main movie title, Dolby AC-3 and/or DTS. If the movie is under 2 hrs., the quality will still be great, if it is over 2 hrs., you can see some compression in the picture with my setup. Anything less, you will not notice. The sound is always great, dts or AC-3. Just be careful to use premium blank media, I bought some cheapies and my Panny started to freeze and pixellate in the 2nd halfs of the movies.

weavercr

I received an email from 321 studios here is part

"Dear 321 Studios Customers & Friends,

As many of you may have already heard, Judge Illston of the Northern District of California Court ruled against us last Friday and in favor of the movie studios. This is the first major decision in the six lawsuits in which we are now involved.


Her ruling included an injunction preventing us from continuing to sell the current version of our popular DVDXCOPY software if it included a ripper.....

If you’d like to read Judge Illston’s decision or articles written about us, please go to our web site at http://www.321studios.com. If you’d like to offer your support, please visit http://www.protectfairuse.org. Meanwhile, we are making every effort to continue to support you and your 321 products. "

This is because it could make an perfect copy. There xcopy-express was not included in the lawsuit because it degrades the copy.

Kpt_Krunch

Originally posted by weavercr
I received an email from 321 studios here is part

"Dear 321 Studios Customers & Friends,

As many of you may have already heard, Judge Illston of the Northern District of California Court ruled against us last Friday and in favor of the movie studios. This is the first major decision in the six lawsuits in which we are now involved.


Her ruling included an injunction preventing us from continuing to sell the current version of our popular DVDXCOPY software if it included a ripper.....

If you’d like to read Judge Illston’s decision or articles written about us, please go to our web site at http://www.321studios.com. If you’d like to offer your support, please visit http://www.protectfairuse.org. Meanwhile, we are making every effort to continue to support you and your 321 products. "

This is because it could make an perfect copy. There xcopy-express was not included in the lawsuit because it degrades the copy.

I was going to make a new thread about this - but decided not too. See, when I go to a store that sells speaker 'A' only, and the salesman tells me "Polk is crap, get speaker A", well - OF COURSE he's gonna say that - he doesn't sell Polk, and he wants to make money so he pushes speaker A.

Not that anyone is making money, I just find it hilarious that the people posting in this thread the negative to burned DVD's don't burn the DVD's, so OF COURSE they're gonna tell you that the copies are inferior.

I say - go ahead and buy your DVD's , no skin off my nose, I'll be enjoying my PERFECT copies and laughing at you all the way to the bank with the money I'm saving - and it looks like for you poor unfortunate souls who think that DVD XCOPY and other programs are no good - you will never know now, will you?

Shizelbs

I burn DVD's and I still say that compressing them onto one disc doesn't give me perfect copies.

Kpt_Krunch

Originally posted by Shizelbs
I burn DVD's and I still say that compressing them onto one disc doesn't give me perfect copies.

Where do I say that?????? DVD Xcopy gives you TWO options - to compress and not to compress - when you don't compress, you split the movie over two DVDs and it is an EXACT FREAKING COPY, and the only problem with that is having to change DVD's halfway through. A lot of people don't like this. I'm sure then that they never in their lives paused a movie to answer a phone, go to the bathroom, answer the door, clean up a spilled drink or anything else as interrupting a movie to them is sacreligous or something.

Shizelbs

Originally posted by Kpt_Krunch

Not that anyone is making money, I just find it hilarious that the people posting in this thread the negative to burned DVD's don't burn the DVD's, so OF COURSE they're gonna tell you that the copies are inferior.

I do burn DVD's, but I do have negative things to say about it anyways.