On 02 Jan 2004 16:47:55 GMT, (LanceBro) wrote:

there are archival program availiable for retail, such as dvd copy or dvd xcopy
express etc...these will make copies for you, but it will not copy dvd to dvd
it will copy to the Hard Drive then ask you to insert your blank and copy your
DVD....

most DVD's are 8.7 gigs and are referred to as dvd9's the current blanks and
burners can only do 4.7 gigs...

so your movie will be compressed not an exact copy but it will look fine...

The commercial DVD's are usually 8.7 gigs because they include
both wide screen and standard screen versions of the same movie
plus all the extra menus. Programs that will copy commercial DVD's
will usually let you pick which files to copy. If you pick to copy
just the wide screen version then the complete movie will fit on a
standard 4.7 gig DVD without any quality loss.

you will also not have menu's and/or special features etc etc

remember archival purposes only