Wednesday, April 6, 2011

DVD Fab

I love movies, and have collected a few over the years. Did you know that you can copy movies? It's true, there is a trick to it, but it works and it is easy, particularly if you use a program called DVD Fab! Another program you can use is Any DVD, but it will require that you also have a DVD burning program like Nero or Roxio, that will cost about $70.00 on sale or $100 at retail. Any DVD will set you back and additional $50.00.

DVD Fab does it all! It will remove the European coding allowing you to copy into the North American code. It removes all the disclaimers, and the anti copy codes. If the original is too big to fit on one blank DVD, it will compress it to fit, with little loss in quality! It will also let you break the original DVD into 2 DVDs with no loss of quality if the original is too big. Then it burns the new disc for you. A very cool program indeed.

All you need is a computer with a DVD burner drive on it, and nearly all of the computers today have that.

If you need to find movies to copy, Blockbuster or Rogers is a likely source, but consider renting free ones from the Library. All that costs is a $10.00 annual fee for a Library Card! Strangely enough, they have a very good selection of some very good movies.

Blank DVDs are available everywhere in packs ranging from 10 to 100 and cost about 30 cents each on sale! You will also need to get some jewel cases and these are available nearly everywhere that blank DVDs are sold. Do not get the DVD +RW or - RW, these are rewritable discs, can be erased, cost more and are slower to burn. Find out what kind of disc you can use in your DVD or Blu Ray player, and buy the right kind, there are 2 kinds. DVD+R or DVD-R. A lot of players and even Blu Ray players will play them.

There are programs out there that will make jewel case inserts in seconds. I have used the easiest one around for years now, and it costs $15.00 on line. Google CDR Label and you are on your way. they set up the spine, front page and back for you, Insert a picture like the original movie if you like, find pictures for free on Google, and paste them onto your insert.

DVD Fab will cost you $50.00 on line, and you can download it for a free trial of 30 days, and if you like it, you can pay for it on your credit card, all very safely.

One other thing, it takes about 28 minutes to burn a copy of a 2 hour movie! Now you can decide to watch a movie you like for almost nothing, any time you like.

Happy watching. Call me if you have any trouble with any of this or if you have questions. Happy Burning!

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