Is There A Ready-To-Run Copier?

[ThatDaveGuy]

Is there a unit on the market that will just plain copy a commercial DVD? I'm talkin' stick in the original, stick in the blank, press start, come back later! I'm just not interested in learning all the myriad bits of apps, conversions, etc, ad-infinitum that I've read about here. I've been down those paths in other areas of PC stuff and I just don't have the time. I realize this is sort of contrary to this forum and I don't mean to insult anyone. I just want to copy stuff with the least amount of investment in time/learning possible.

Thanks!

DcS

[jggimi]

Short answer: The various writeable dvd technologies only have 1/2 the capacity of dual layer dvds.

Shorter answer: no.

Try this guide: DVD to DVD-R/W Guides (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdr-guides.htm). It says:These guides will help you create DVD backups of DVD movies without having to re-author the disc....[the Basic Guide] ... Explains how you reduce the size of a DVD to 4.7GB by stripping unwanted extras, audio streams, subtitle streams and transcoding the video stream and making the disc regionfree.

Please see Doom9's DVD Basics (http://www.doom9.org/dvd-basics.htm), and the DVD related articles (http://www.doom9.org/articles.htm). Both are reachable directly from the home page (http://www.doom9.org). Don't whine.:rolleyes:

[ThatDaveGuy]

I don't whine - but I do wine...

Here's the thing: I could figure this all out and strip this and re-master that and I'm sure I'd have a great time doing it. But (and this is a very big but...) I'm trying to come up with as close to a turn-key system as possible. I have a source for screener copies of DVD's but the best I can get right now is 2nd gen VHS. They're OK but a far cry from DVD. If I had an e-z system to give to my source I'd be in!

What-do-ya think, another year or so maybe?
Thanks again.

DcS

[jggimi]

No. If you'd read through Doom9's articles, you'd know that dual-layer disks are actually glued together during the manufacturing process.