What do you do with your DVD Burner?

[poppyq]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: poppyq

Originally posted by: sugarkang
let me put this in perspective. my friend has 20,000 mp3 albums. ALBUMS. average that to 12 songs per album, and that's a total of 240,000 mp3s.

At a fine of $175,000 per song, and 240,000 songs, you friend owes RIAA $42,000,000,000 (that's 42 billion for those of you with math problems) Your friend needs to get a life.

I only see ONE person in this thread that needs to get a life, and it ain't sugarkang's friend. I hope you are kidding with that post poppyq, because that is the weakest crap I've heard in a reeeaaaally long time.

Geez guys, lighten up? didn't you read about where they were going to fine you $175,000 per song? Maybe it was $150,000, I can't remember. I just know it was rediculous. But in response to the other post, I really doubt he has 20,000 albums that are legit, I can understand maybe 100GB worth, but 20,000 albums is just overkill, that's why I was saying get a life, considering his lifespan is probably not long enough to listen to all of those. And I came into this thread with the intention of a regular post, but when someone starts talking about his friend's "amazing mp3 collection" (my translation) I had to respond in kind.

 

[Regs]

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When you back up a DVD, it makes a image onto your hard drive. So 4.7 Gigs of data goes onto your HDD before the final write?

 

[nodoubts2k]

Originally posted by: poppyq

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: poppyq

Originally posted by: sugarkang
let me put this in perspective. my friend has 20,000 mp3 albums. ALBUMS. average that to 12 songs per album, and that's a total of 240,000 mp3s.

At a fine of $175,000 per song, and 240,000 songs, you friend owes RIAA $42,000,000,000 (that's 42 billion for those of you with math problems) Your friend needs to get a life.

I only see ONE person in this thread that needs to get a life, and it ain't sugarkang's friend. I hope you are kidding with that post poppyq, because that is the weakest crap I've heard in a reeeaaaally long time.

Geez guys, lighten up? didn't you read about where they were going to fine you $175,000 per song? Maybe it was $150,000, I can't remember. I just know it was rediculous. But in response to the other post, I really doubt he has 20,000 albums that are legit, I can understand maybe 100GB worth, but 20,000 albums is just overkill, that's why I was saying get a life, considering his lifespan is probably not long enough to listen to all of those. And I came into this thread with the intention of a regular post, but when someone starts talking about his friend's "amazing mp3 collection" (my translation) I had to respond in kind.

Please stop.

Anyway, I recently got a dvd burner (the liteon 411s $79 deal at BB), and am starting to backup stuff on my hdd. I am trying to find out how to backup my dvd collection, amongst other stuff as well. I am also burning a lot of CD's, as this drive is way faster than my old TDK 12x10x32 cdrw drive (40x24x40 methinks).

 

[sugarkang]

I am trying to find out how to backup my dvd collection, amongst other stuff as well

unfortunately, current dvd burners only allow for 4.7gb on one side.
a lot of the movie DVDs being sold exceed that giggage.

solution? well there's a really nice and easy one for most of those problems:

it's called DVD SHRINK

this will allow you to get a lot (not all) of your DVDs onto your DVD-Rs.
it compresses your original dvd just enough to make it fit. you can choose the amount of compression.

way better than spending time encoding to xvid / ogm / etc.

 

[Rob G.]

Unless you need one right now, it might be worth hanging on 'till the dual-layer 8+gb capacity drives start to come out 1st half 2004.

 

[Dreadogg]

I use it for backup, mini DV's, and DVD Backup. Dual layer burners look good but who's waiting, you could always wait and never get anything. My suggestion is to go out and buy the 8x DVD burner that was on sale this week and buy some 4X -R media for about 1 dollar each at newegg.

 

[hjo3]

Nothing... the media's too expensive (compared to CDRs) and it takes like an hour to burn 4 gigs to one disc (4x write).

 

[sugarkang]

Nothing... the media's too expensive (compared to CDRs) and it takes like an hour to burn 4 gigs to one disc (4x write).

i hope nobody else thought this same thing and didn't buy a dvd burner.

first of all on DVD-R
1x = 60mins
2x = 30mins
4x = 15mins
8x = 7.5mins

DVD-R does not operate on CDR speeds.
my 1x burning is actually just a little bit faster than 8x CD-R.
thus 2x burning would be about 16x CD-R
and 4x burning would be about 32x CD-R (actually faster)

furthermore, on a per gig basis, DVD-R is now cheaper than CD-R
6.5 CD-Rs = 1 DVD-R for giggage

is a DVD-R 6.5 times more expensive than CD-R discs? NO!

 

[Dreadogg]

Originally posted by: hjo3
Nothing... the media's too expensive (compared to CDRs) and it takes like an hour to burn 4 gigs to one disc (4x write).

You do not have a clue about DVD speeds 4x only takes about 15 mins to write 4.7 gigs.

 

[hjo3]

w/e maybe my software sucks, but it took more than an hour for my Pioneer to burn 4 gigs.

 

[BFG10K]

I don't have one yet because I'm waiting for prices to fall and a universal standard to be established.

However if I had one I'd simply use it for burning data backups. Currently when I backup my data I have to use several 700 MB CDs; obviously one 4.7 GB DVD would be able to store all of it, for the time being at least.