DVD's on Hard Drive

[Serafino]

Hi,

Here's what I'd like to do. I'd like to rip all of my DVD's to my hard drive so that I never have to find an individual DVD in my collection and I can play them on my LCD tv which is also connected as a monitor to my PC. And I want full menu's, special features, everything and I don't want to sacrifice quality. I'm talking full 9.6GB files, the whole thing! I know what you're thinking....way too much space. Well, you're right, but I'm willing to buy a 1TB external hard drive to accomplish this. Why do I want to do this? Because I think I can....

Am I nuts here?

[hobey19]

if you have got the money and the will, no, you are not nuts. i keep some of mine backed up, but i don't think any of your dvd's will be 9.6gb. they will most likely be in the 5-7gb range.

craig

[RJ]

DVDs top out at 7.95 GB. More than that is not possible on one side.

Am I nuts here?

Well, I don't think so. Actually I would like to accomplish the same, but right now hard drives aren't big enough. Who knows, maybe I'm nuts too :D

But if 8 GB are too big for you, you can do the following. Use DVD Shrink (www.dvdshrink.org) and kick out all the extras and additional audio tracks that you don't want. Set the compression to 100% so DVD Shrink won't compress anything.

That way you will get only the movie, with the audio track(s) you want, in its original quality, and it will be a few GB smaller coz of the missing extras.

RJ

[bailey]

I am looking at the cost factor, you can buy a lot of dvd blanks and copy them for what that set-up you want would cost.
it just don't seam too practical to me.