Currently, I have been making backups of kids dvd's that I buy and shelving
the original. I am using dvd decryptor, then dvd2one and then burning it to
a dvd. Now I have just upgraded my HP burner to a new sony 510A and was
curious if my old way is still a good way?

Yes, of course. BTW, if you are asking this question, you have no idea why
you are doing these steps in the first place.

"TrailShredder" <trail@shred.com> wrote in message
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"Tony Low" <tonylow_r_e_m_o_v_e_@bellnet.ca> wrote in message
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Knowing how, but not why, is often enough for some people. If the guy knows
he can put the master in the drive, run a program, run another program, put
a blank in the drive and run a third and the outcome is he gets a copy good
enough for it's purpose, does he NEED to know why?

Well, I guess I kind of know why. I was more curious if there was an
easier, faster way. I know when I installed the drive it couldn't do the
Decryptor because the region code was not set. Instead of setting it to 1 I
installed some region free program and hoped I could just do a direct copy
without trying to get around copyright crap. I know that the decryptor
removes copyright protection, DVD2one makes it small enough to fit on a 4.7
GB single layer DVD by eliminating menus, languages, and extras. Do I need
to know any more than that? Maybe, Am I wasting my time with this region
free thing?


"Tony Low" <tonylow_r_e_m_o_v_e_@bellnet.ca> wrote in message
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"TrailShredder" <trail@shred.com> wrote in message
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You might want to give DVDShrink (freeware) a try. The resulting files can
be written to a DVD-Video disk using Nero or similar.


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