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Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« on: February 04, 2011, 04:37:14 pm »
What is the easiest way to put your DVD collection on  hard drive?
Since it appears my BR player is dead I would like to just put all our DVD on a hard drive
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« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2011, 04:39:16 pm »
Mac or PC?
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2011, 05:34:07 pm »
Also, how are you going to watch them once you have them all there?
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2011, 05:39:11 pm »
PC
Would like to play them though the WD media player we have
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/homeentertainment/mediaplayers/
We have an older player
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2011, 05:44:12 pm »
Quote from: airbalancer on February 04, 2011, 04:37:14 pm
What is the easiest way to put your DVD collection on  hard drive?
Since it appears my BR player is dead I would like to just put all our DVD on a hard drive

Any luck reflashing the BD players firmware?
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2011, 06:04:28 pm »
Quote from: airbalancer on February 04, 2011, 04:37:14 pm
What is the easiest way to put your DVD collection on  hard drive?
Since it appears my BR player is dead I would like to just put all our DVD on a hard drive

1. Convert into .iso, if you don't want any quality loss, a)using ImgBurn, which is a must have app IMO, but it may not work on copyrighted DVDs.
    b) using DVDShrink which is a wonderful little piece of freeware, although not longer developed, it will do very easy editing, such as removal of unwanted content and will allow you to chose audio streams, subtitles and so on. It will also convert the DVD into an .iso file directly.
2. Enjoy playing the files on your WD.
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2011, 06:40:10 pm »
Considering the price of Bluray players these days why no just shell out the $100 for a new one?
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2011, 08:04:45 pm »
Quote from: tpl on February 04, 2011, 06:40:10 pm
Considering the price of Bluray players these days why no just shell out the $100 for a new one?

I agree. Walmart actually sells a no-name BD player for about $79.00.

Furthermore, I've got a lot of 10 year old DVDs that play just fine (as do my 25 year old CDs)...but I don't have a lot of hard drives that have lasted that long :). When I back things up on HDDs (and I do, I have thousands of photos on HDDs) I usually back them up on three different drives because I don't trust the darn things as far as I can throw them. Yes, old DVDs have been known to rot. But when a DVD goes bad, it doesn't take the rest of your collection with it. More often than not, when an HDD goes for a crap, the whole disc and it's contents are goners.
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2011, 09:14:20 pm »
 
I have probably 100 movie on my HD and have a lot of hd space
And just find it easier to use the media player
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2011, 09:16:49 pm »
I got a great Sony BD player at Christmas for $80 reduced from $140.
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2011, 12:51:44 pm »
Easier and faster to download the popular titltes than to the convert a DVD into avi / dvix.
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Re: Putting a DVD on a hard drive
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2011, 01:28:49 pm »
Quote from: initial_D on February 05, 2011, 12:51:44 pm
Easier and faster to download the popular titltes than to the convert a DVD into avi / dvix.

He doesn't need to convert anything, it is basically a re-packing of a DVD structure into a single .iso file of approx the same size as the original DVD. It takes about 5-10 min each and you can get rid of the trailers, commercials and warnings any retail DVD comes with nowadays.
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