Do you copy DVDs?

John R · 25-01-2005 03:31AM

fade2black wrote:

To be honest I like to own the original DVDs because the quality is perfect but more importantly for me I like to stack them on the shelves like books and show them off to the world. There's nothing pretty about a copied DVD.

There is however something very pretty about a nice neat stack of twenty euro notes stacked in my wallet rather than a big grubby pile of evil monochrome dollars in the claw of a movie studio exec.

fade2black wrote:

Im not on any moral highground though, id watch a copied DVD or pirate but I think I spend so much money on DVDs that I have nothing to feel guilty about. It's the same with downloading music. To hell with these people who go on about..you must pay for your songs...Shut up...I own thousands and thousands of original cds and i've paid through the nose (and I will continue to do so) for them so my conscience is clear when I download a new track that has yet to come out on single.
I know Imight be digressing from the thread title but I'm a DJ and the only way you can compete with the DJs that work for a radio station and have all the tunes before they're released is to download them. THats my two cents.

Considering how many promo copies of cds there are given away it's no wonder they are charging exorbitant amounts to consumers.

jimmycrackcorm · 26-01-2005 03:49AM

fade2black wrote:

To be honest I like to own the original DVDs because the quality is perfect but more importantly for me I like to stack them on the shelves like books and show them off to the world. There's nothing pretty about a copied DVD.

I too like a bookshelf full of dvds.

when I copy them, I print out the covers also downloaded from a well known covers site. On my new epson photo printer they print perfectly and you would be very hard put to tell the difference. I use glossy photo paper (very cheap now) and compatible inks from the uk.

Thing is I'd never buy a dvd even before I could copy them. I just like the bookshelf of them and maybe watch an odd one. Its a decor thing :-)

The_Conductor · 27-01-2005 04:39PM

Why don't you go uncapped?
I have a 40Gb cap with NTL- but they have said they never enforce it......

RE*AC*TOR · 27-01-2005 04:50PM

foalteam wrote:

Problem with that though Reactor is that the only place you can get the "real" format i.e. .vob files is on Torrent and the download time/size both suck when you're on a 4 Gig downlad cap. Do you use Torrent for this or do you download them in Divx format?

newsgroups are your friend.
I don't have a cap problem.
It takes me about 25 mins to download 5GB

The_Conductor · 27-01-2005 05:19PM

foalteam wrote:

2 reasons. a) I'm renting at the moment and don't think I could change over to NTL easily without hastling the Landlord though I know him fairly well.... hmmm methinks :rolleyes:
b)Are they expensive and do they do complete packages, as in : Broadband and Digital tv?

1 Giga connection for 35 Euro per month, with free installation and first three months free. Regular cable (17 channels) is another 20 a month on top of this- so 55 a month for an uncapped 1Gb connection and cable tv.... Didn't see any point in taking their Digital package- I mostly watch terrestial anyway (and any of the more unusual stuff I watch would hardly be likely to be on NTL digital

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rubadub · 27-01-2005 05:24PM

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

newsgroups are your friend.
I don't have a cap problem.
It takes me about 25 mins to download 5GB

is there anywhere can you get movies without loading up p2p software?
like that "secret" google search thing for mp3s

RE*AC*TOR · 27-01-2005 05:46PM

foalteam wrote:

Now see I heard that before and looked into it a little bit but there seemed to be a hell of a lot of reading up about it involoved and it also seemed that you had to pay to join a newsgroup and I don't possess a credit card. Just seemed like major hastle I thought. Was I missing something or can you PM me a link to explain it all by any chance? Idiots guide . Pwetty pwease

Here's an intro to newsgroups...

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

IANOC · 27-01-2005 05:55PM

with a €1000 fine per disc copied id say definately not!!

Chalk · 27-01-2005 05:57PM

IANOC wrote:

with a €1000 fine per disc copied id say definately not!!

dont tell fact that your doing it and theyll probably never knwo......

IANOC · 27-01-2005 07:06PM

Chalk wrote:

dont tell fact that your doing it and theyll probably never knwo......

well fact is also a rat line too

but i think just being caught with a copied dvd warrants that fine :eek:

Lump · 27-01-2005 07:53PM

IANOC wrote:

with a €1000 fine per disc copied id say definately not!!

Well I'm safe then.... I only have one disk.... my hard drive!

John

pickarooney · 27-01-2005 09:10PM

Not that anyone cares, but a screener is a DVD released to reviewers before the film goes to the cinema. When you get a copy of one, be it in VOB or MPEG4 (DivX/Xvid etc.) it's recognisable by the copyright message which appears at regular intervals during the film. As opposed to a cam release, which is filmed in the cinema and is gubbins, or a TeleSync which is copied as it comes off the reel, and is also pretty muck.

RE*AC*TOR · 27-01-2005 09:20PM

pickarooney wrote:

Not that anyone cares, but a screener is a DVD released to reviewers before the film goes to the cinema. When you get a copy of one, be it in VOB or MPEG4 (DivX/Xvid etc.) it's recognisable by the copyright message which appears at regular intervals during the film. As opposed to a cam release, which is filmed in the cinema and is gubbins, or a TeleSync which is copied as it comes off the reel, and is also pretty muck.

What a random thing to say

segadreamcast · 27-01-2005 10:01PM

Yeah I saw this during 'Shattered Glass' before...

I was going to buy it when it came out on DVD though - so I didn't mind watching the borrowed pirate.

Do you copy DVDs?

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