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Too late now, but yeah you should have gotten spindles of Taiyo Yuden dvdrs instead. The burning will take you a while. Just try to rip and burn one or two a day, unless you have a large chunk of free time and do more. Your dvds aren't all going to die in a few days, so you can take your time.
 
Originally posted by: energydan
Too late now, but yeah you should have gotten spindles of Taiyo Yuden dvdrs instead. The burning will take you a while. Just try to rip and burn one or two a day, unless you have a large chunk of free time and do more. Your dvds aren't all going to die in a few days, so you can take your time.
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That and it's not recommended to burn more than 2 things a day for the sake of your burner. But then again a 16x DL burner is like $30 now.
 
Originally posted by: energydan
Too late now, but yeah you should have gotten spindles of Taiyo Yuden dvdrs instead. The burning will take you a while. Just try to rip and burn one or two a day, unless you have a large chunk of free time and do more. Your dvds aren't all going to die in a few days, so you can take your time.
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Not too late, they're all sealed with receipt in my wallet. 🙂
 
If you have that kind of cash to purchase those DVDs all at once you could do it again. I wouldn't waste my time "backing up" the movies. Perhaps it might be different if you were trying to create an HTPC and wanted to rip them to a HD.
 
I didn't purchase them all at once but I will eventually like to have an HTPC. I actually purchase most of those here in the FS/FT forum.
 
Why do you need to make backups? The amount of time you waste (that is, if you value your time) and the amount of money you waste backing all those movies up will eclipse any value you get from not having to rebuy a random DVD if it somehow stops working or goes missing.

Summary: Your idea sucks.
 
Originally posted by: Kev
Why do you need to make backups? The amount of time you waste (that is, if you value your time) and the amount of money you waste backing all those movies up will eclipse any value you get from not having to rebuy a random DVD if it somehow stops working or goes missing.

Summary: Your idea sucks.
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My OP lacks essential details for making my idea not suck, so I understand your conclusion. ....meh. 😉
 
This is going to take way longer than Aquaman's magazine scanning project. I hope you do have a good reason for backing them up you're not telling us about, because I just don't see the purpose.
 
Originally posted by: Motek
say if u made image files..
does dvd shrink allow u to put like 5 dvds in one dvd?
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DVD shrink will let you compress them as much as you want, but each DVD taking less than 1GB to fit 5 on there would look HORRID.

Tell me again why you HAVE to back these up?
 
Bah. Just get an ISO ripper, a few dozen HDs and rip teh bastards. BTW, if u have more than one comp, buy and install a few more DVD drives. Would help a LOT. Still, why do u need backups anyway? Is someone going to randomly steal ur DVDs? An HD will die quicker than any DVD.
 
Originally posted by: Mike
I've acquied a large collection of DVDs (read: not stolen 😉 ) and I need to make backups of them.

This + These + This + All of These = ? 😕
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Yikes, what a waste of time/money. The money waste being buying all the backup media. The time waste being that chances are you won't need to ever use your backups.

I doubt you will even watch half those movies more than 1x/year.

And let's say you want to use the backups if people ask to borrow....well, then just make the backups as the requests come in.

But still...what a waste of time/money.
 
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