Now DVD format shifting/ripping is becoming legal in the UK advice on doing it to my DVD collection?
Yes I know, ?but everyone does it anyway why have you waited till it was legal you nut Sylar?. Okay let?s get over this point right now point is I am a straight laced person one of them types who hardly ever/ never torrents unless you already have the product key and doesn?t rip my DVDs to the computer. I guess I must be one of them tin foil hat people whom fears black American helicopters invading the UK to send me to the clink! (Joke by the way).
That aside since it?s now officially legal to format shift, and maybe somewhat more importantly we are in the middle of some building work it occurs to me I may as well save a lot of space if I simply ripped my DVD to a portable external drive. What I really want to ask is it as simple as putting the DVD in the drive and copy and pasting the files or do I need to worry about copy protection, and is there any advantage to getting specialist software. Anything I should know, what format should I be using for the files, any point of transcoding them into HD?
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Now DVD format shifting/ripping is becoming legal in the UK advice on doing it to my DVD collection?
Yes I know, ?but everyone does it anyway why have you waited till it was legal you nut Sylar?. Okay let?s get over this point right now point is I am a straight laced person one of them types who hardly ever/ never torrents unless you already have the product key and doesn?t rip my DVDs to the computer. I guess I must be one of them tin foil hat people whom fears black American helicopters invading the UK to send me to the clink! (Joke by the way).
That aside since it?s now officially legal to format shift, and maybe somewhat more importantly we are in the middle of some building work it occurs to me I may as well save a lot of space if I simply ripped my DVD to a portable external drive. What I really want to ask is it as simple as putting the DVD in the drive and copy and pasting the files or do I need to worry about copy protection, and is there any advantage to getting specialist software. Anything I should know, what format should I be using for the files, any point of transcoding them into HD?
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