The easiest DVD backup method w/ any protection (incl. Sony)

and one more thing d1g1taltv ,we don't copy dvds we back them up. thats the correct term!!

 

If ANY DVD and Clone 2 failed for you many times thats simple one click after another means your in need of a guide since your not as savvy as your letting on. I'd like to know of the many times it failed you since I've got grand kids from 8 years old up that back up their new movies when they get them using anydvd and clone on their own.Simple is as simple does. Chris

 

Maybe not a newbie... but certainly not a nice person.

It doesn't matter how smart a person is, if they don't have a point of reference to frame the information they're being given, they will have trouble applying it.

You could take the most brilliant, and capable nuclear physicist, but if before he's recieved any formal training, you put him in front of a atomic super collider, he's not going to have any idea what to do.

Everyone here has at one point had to learn how to do what we're all here to do... make back-ups. Back-ups that we have (as far as I know) every right to make for personal use, but which has been maliciously made difficult by greedy companies who just want us to buy multiple copies when our kids scratch the hell out of their disney DVD's.

No one is ever stupid for not knowing how to do something. The word for that is ignorant, and while stupidity tends to lend itself towards ignorance... ignorance itself is most certainly not a sign of stupidity.

Anyone that doesn't know that is quite... ignorant... or to put it in the words of d1g1taltv, they're "stupid".

So what does that make d1g1taltv?

 

Scott, not picking on you but you left out ISO or Hard Disc folder and burn with CopytoDVD. Been using it that way for couple yrs now.....

 

Hey guys you're being way too harsh on this guy. He was trying to help here , there is nothing wrong with that. I think you took his attempt at humour a bit the wrong way.
He sounds like a noob with a willingness to add something to the forums, nothing wrong with that.

 

IMO, the answer to the original post is: AnyDVD/CloneDVD2...

 

lol, thanks connolly. seems everyone takes this stuff way too seriously, as well as having no personality. like i said before, everyone reads way too much into what i said.....lets see how many times people analyize what i am saying now!! hahahaa!! im coming back just to read how crazy you people are with all the comments you leave back. i started this post just because i found a "GOOD" way to burn a DVD. I have had zero problems with any DVD so far, and i just wanted to share. newbie, expert, genious, who gives a shit. it works and doesnt need over explaination. want to share how you make your DVD's? cool, start a new f'ing thread and get a life. peace.

 

Wow this thread is going downhill quick.

@d1g1taltv

I wont analyize anything you have said in the previous post. But I will say this is a forum and you should expect some feed back to a guide that you have posted. Positive or negitave feedback. As long as it is constructive. So why ya crying about it?

 

Just use DVD FAB Decrypter to download to your HDD, then use DVD Shrink to compress your files and if you have Nero, use that to write. This is what I use and it never fails. Good Luck.

 

Why not just have "d1g1taltv" come out with his own guide and see how easy it is you use compared to the other guides on this site. Enough bickering over this. Im classified as a newbie on this site but Im no newbie. Ive learned the hard way. Trial and error and no guides. Nothing wrong with trying to do things on your own. Now making VCDs back in the day ,thats a different story.

Go Detroit Tigers.

 

Believe me, there are easier... quicker, more reliable ways. Clone dvd 2 and anydvd comes to mind as being the simplest, but also dvdfab decrypter and 1 click dvd with Anydvd is also easy, and very reliable. Many different ways to do backups, to make claim your for whatever reason is "the way to do it" is almost laughable.

 

My 2 pennies-
As much as I like Arniebear it really doesn't hurt to have an extra guide, especially one geared to the "attention deficient" set that seems to account for 90% of the public these days.

Using free tools is a great way to get people started in backing up their collections. Sure, AnyDVD is the bomb from all I've read, and I use CloneDVD2 and can attest to it's ease of use. And if you are willing to pay for the added convenience of these tools, more power to you. But some people like free, at least until they get their feet wet in a process, so Ripit4me and both guides are a wonderful addition to Afterdawn.

d1g1taltv and Arniebear - ever think about having the Ripit4me site post a link to your help guides, or set up Geocities pages, with keywords so it shows up in search engines? I Googled Ripit4me and there are no "How-to" directions listed in the first few results.

 

anydvd is a good program, and it did work quite well for a while. problem is, i did find a handful of dvds that it could not rip without problems. maybe i needed the newest version of anydvd? who knows, and i dont really care if you know why so dont bother. but basically the version i had was very recent and it did not work 100% of the time. i also am surprised ppl r still posting "how i do it" replys, its pretty funny. maybe next time ill just change the subject header of this thread, because i guess the 1000 other ppl have there own easier ideas as well. like i said before, post you own thread and maybe ill read it, but i doubt it because this works for me until they make other protection schemes.

 

coleken3 - i totally agree with you regarding the newbie thing and trial and error. guides r made if ur totally clueless, and thats perfectly fine if you are. i myself start ADD'ing out my ass reading "click on this option box to do this" kind of guides, and im sure most people can agree with that. trial and error works best for me because it lets you figure out on your own what the program is doing. if it doesnt work, than you keep trying!

 

Whos the crazy one? http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/408019

 

clicked wrong button. start new thread is next to reply. OOPS.

 

But... your point seems to be that Arnie's guide is over simplified, and overly explainatory. You imply that there should be a guide for people who know what they're doing.

I don't understand why someone who knows what they're doing would need a guide.

And d1g1taltv, no one was psychoanalyzing you, or reading too much into your intentions.

You were rude, and when you're rude, you can expect people to react poorly to you.

Honest to god, its as simple, and easy to understand as that. You don't even need to read arnies guide.