copying dvd's

[robbiehall]

Is it possible to copy PAL dvd movies to NTSC format? and what software does anyone recommend?

Cheers
Rob

[autopilot]

Virtually all DVD players play both anyway, don't they?

Either way, get this... http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

Then use CloneDVD2 or Nero recode.

And make sure it's all legal too!

[robbiehall]

Thanks for that, it looks good.
The problem I have is that we bought a DVD player for my wifes parents, who live in Grenada. Their TV is a NTSC box, and the player would not output properly (BW rolling pic) nor would any copy DVD's play. So we bought a DVD player out there and that works fine, but only with NTSC discs. Hence our wish to copy DVD's but output them as NTSC when burning them.

[nvening]

copying home movies i think he means btw

[robbiehall]

Yup, all legal discs
I have found that Nero Vision Express allows you to specify the output as PAL or NTSC, so will give that a go this weekend. It also does video editing, so I will try and make a movie from our recent holiday too.
Rob

[BEANFro Elite]

I recommend...

http://files.dvdr-digest.com/encode/...ink32setup.zip

Its ownage for backing up ur DVD collection...allowing you to decrypt the CSS encryption, reauthor the DVD, compress, sharpen image quality and much, much more!!

[nvening]

that link is illeagle, try it, what software is it?

[autopilot]

I think it's a link to DVD shrink. Awsome bit of kit of backing up protected DVD's. But hey, i think we are walking on thin ice with this thread now guys...

[BEANFro Elite]

Nonsense poopy pants!! As the law stands, its perfectly legal to make a copy of a copyrighted DVD / game as long as still own a working copy of the original.

Rumour has it the game, film and music industries are fighting to change this law so that we are only allowed to play the music.

[Paul Adams]

Nonsense poopy pants!! As the law stands, its perfectly legal to make a copy of a copyrighted DVD / game as long as still own a working copy of the original.

Really?
I thought this only applied in the US? Or is that just for music & software?

[autopilot]

Yes, it's still 'technically' illegal in the UK. Not that I think it should be. The law is quite fuzzy regarding MP3's though. I think thats still 'technically' illegal and it's just a case of turning a blind eye on MP3's as long as you own the orginal CD.

[autopilot]

I found this, orginally an article in PC Zone magazine...

Computer games users enjoy a special privilege under the existing copyright law. According to Section 50(A) of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, legal purchasers of computer games are explicitly permitted to make a backup copy of their purchase. (Interestingly, the rule specifically applies to computer games. For no adequately-explained reason, purchasers of music CDs or DVD movies are not granted the same rights to protect their investment. The only rational explanation your reporter can come up with for this odd anomaly is that the law recognises that (a) computer software is overpriced in comparison to other leisure media, and (b) the games industry is so fragile, and hostile towards backwards-compatibility, that your chances of being able to obtain a legal replacement for a duff disc after anything more than a couple of years are so remote as to require legal remedy.)

This section of the law has NOT been changed by the CRRA. You are still entitled by UK law to make a backup copy of any piece of software you buy legally. Where things start to get interesting, though, is in Section 296Z of the new law. Section 296 makes it an offence to do anything at all which is designed to circumvent any piece of copyright protection technology put in place by the manufacturers or distributors of any copyrighted work.

This is a direct copy (ironically) of the section in the US DMCA under which the prosecutions of Skylarov, Halderman and many others were made possible, and in short what it means is that if a disc has some form of anti-copy protection, it is a criminal offence to either circumvent that protection yourself, or to give anyone else any device or piece of information which will enable them to do so. In other words, if you exercise your legally-enshrined right to make a backup of your legally-purchased game, you are automatically and necessarily breaking the law, with a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment. Hmm. Bit of a mixed message being sent out there, don't you think?

Here's where it get's interesting...

We've examined the evidence and come to the only logical conclusion, and that conclusion is this: Under the new UK copyright laws, any software publisher which implements any form of copy-protection on its discs will be breaking the law. Because it's an offence, obviously, to deprive the consumer of any right which is explicitly granted to him in law. And if you implement copy protection which there is no legal way to circumvent (which, thanks to the CRRA, there now isn't), then you are, obviously, depriving the consumer of the opportunity to exercise his legally-enshrined right to a backup. Which is illegal. So, who wants to be the first in court?