leahcim

I like to back up stuff on a HDD so the kids and watch stuff without scuffing my collection. They stream from HD to laptop to the tv

Since DVD Fab was shut down I cannot find a good program to do this. I like to do a 1:1 ISO file


Anyone have a suggestion?

morriscroy

I don't bother anymore. It's largely a waste of hard drive space.

These days I only extract the entire undecrypted iso from every new bluray disc I buy, largely to check for any bad sectors due to manufacturing defects.

JimRochester

Back in the old days I used to copy DVD's. I ended up with 1000's of unwatched DVD-r's. Don't bother any more.

PhantomStranger

After the wave of recent Criterion pressings to go bad, this might not be the worst idea.

Trevor

I'll never waste another minute or a penny on backing anything up. I used to be OCD about it, but finally realized that it's a huge waste. If I lose something, and really need it again (and if it's a material possession I dont) I'll find it somewhere.

Mr. Salty

Which they're replacing for free, so I don't see the point of having to figure out how to break copy protection, ripping and filling up hard drive space.

morriscroy

(With all that being said).

Previously, I backed up particular tv season sets if one or more of the discs have major playback problems.

For example, Universal, Warner, and Fox shows which were released on double-sided flipper discs, such as: Magnum PI, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Dallas, Dukes of Hazzard, Quantum Leap, Miami Vice, Airwolf, Remington Steele, etc ...

This is the only way to watch these particular flipper season sets without any problems like: freezing, skipping, pixelation, etc ...

This is done more for pragmatic reasons, than anything "ocd" related.

morriscroy

In the end, I found it was easier (and less expensive) to just buy the re-released single-sided discs versions of Magnum PI, The A-Team, Knight Rider, the original Battlestar Galactica, Miami Vice, etc ... than dealing with the headaches of backing up double-sided flipper discs.

I'll pick up the upcoming Quantum Leap complete series set which appears to be all single-sided discs (judging by the disc count), once it hits $50 or less. (The R1 seasons 2 to 5 of Quantum Leap were originally done as double-sided flipper discs). Sliders is also being released as a complete series set, where it appears season 3 is now single-sided discs. (The original version of season 3 of Sliders was done as double-sided flipper discs, while the original season 1+2 set had lousy foam packaging which scratched/mangled the discs).

leahcim

Don't tell me it is illegal to do what I do. I mean back something up for the kids so they do not ruin the original, that has to be ok to do right?

Anyways so no one knows of a decent program to use?

morriscroy

These days I find it's easier to just buy another copy from the $5-$10 dump bins, when my previous copy either gets lost or goes bad (ie. developing new bad sectors from rot, etc ...).

morriscroy

I'm still very OCD about checking every new dvd/bluray disc I buy, for bad sectors from manufacturing defects. Even for $2 bluray movies I buy.

Once in awhile when I'm bored, I'll pick out some random blurays (or dvds) from my collection, and check them again on the computer for bad sectors.

(I'm not really sure why exactly I do this).

joltman

Wait, DVD Fab was shut down? The website still comes up...

bsmith

I have DVD Fab, and still use it from time to time, If you still own it and have it installed what is the issue?

leahcim

DVD FAB is ok but when I make a backup of BD's for the kids room, it always says I need to update.

Due to them being in trouble, they cannot update the protection breaking I think.

I bought X-Men DOTP 2 days ago, want to keep it nice so I went to back it up but no luck, the most recent DVD FAB says "You need to update"........so that is why I asked if anyone knew of a FAB alternative to create .ISO files

Mr. Salty

Whether you like it or not, it is in fact illegal to break copy protection — a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act — and asking for help here to do it will get your thread locked.

Mr. Salty

"Days of Future Past" comes with a Digital Copy, as most BDs do these days. There's your "backup" for the kids.

leahcim

Good to know thanks

Off to the store to buy a second Days of Futures past then

E Unit

In response to the OP's question - No, I don't see a point. I have some 1160 blu's alone and have never felt compelled or think they'd no longer be playable to the point I felt the need to back them up. I pull out random titles, dating back to 2007 and haven't had one single issue yet. In fact, I watched The Descent recently which I believe was the first or second title I bought on blu, and it played just fine.

So, it's not worth it to me.

Adam Tyner

Discussion of ripping discs is verboten at DVD Talk. Sorry.