Is recording a dvd film on cd good quality?

clarelouise | 01:18 Sun 02nd Nov 2003 | Technology

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Can anyone help me out? I am wanting to copy some dvd films my friend is going to lend me and I am going to buy a dvd rom as at the moment I only have a cd rom and a cd burner. I am wanting to record the dvd films onto a cd and I am aware that I will have to put a film on a few cd's but what I want to know is will they be good enough quality as I don't want to buy a dvd rom and then find out that the quality is really bad. Any advice would be great. Thank you. clarelouise.

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A copied version will never be as good as the original. There are many programs out there that can do what you want. But they convert the DVD into a more Computer standard format, AVI, DiVx etc. To play a film in this way on the TV would require a DVD capable of playing VCD or even SVCD. If your lucky it will play DivX, but i do not think they have reached this country yet. Most prgrams out there only copy the FILM and not the special features etc associated with a DVD. But as they are free who is complaining? It is not so much copying that is involved in this, it is the converting of a DVD. The time is takes to do this will depend on the specification of your PC- " Faster PC, faster coversion". You can shove a 2 hour film on a CD but the quality will be poor, 2 Cd's qualitly improves and so on... The big daddy of DVD copying is this > http://www.dvdxcopy.com and it just copies the DVD and everything on it. You should be aware though that copying a copyrighted DVD is illegal, unless of course you have permission from the copyright holder. An example of this is that DVDXCOPY, the studios are not very happy with it.... Your best bet it is to experiment... This site explains it all and even more than that, http://www.dvdrhelp.com

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"To play a film in this way on the TV would require a DVD capable of playing VCD or even SVCD." - To play a film in this way on the TV would require a DVD player capable of playing VCD or even SVCD.

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Hello there, Thank you so much for the information it is really helpful. I will check out that site. Thanks once again. clarelouise.

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