Posted by Dietmar Haltermann on 05/22/07 08:13

"Grinder" <grinder@no.spam.maam.com> wrote in message
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> Marv Soloff wrote:
>> Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:
>>> "Marv Soloff" <msoloff@verizon.net> wrote in message
>>> news:CYJ3i.4739$qp5.1948@trnddc03...
>>>
>>>> evenlater@earthlink.net wrote:
>>>> Get a copy of the German DEFA Production of "Turandot". Study how they
>>>> copy protected this disk.
>>>> Every ripping program I tried on this sucker indicated "there was no
>>>> disk in the drive" Drove me
>>>> nuts.
>>>
>>>
>>> Did AnyDVD fail?
>>>
>>> AnyDVD in combination with a normal DVD copier such as NERO is surely
>>> the obvious way to copy protected DVDs. It does cost $40 though.
>>>
>> Yep. Any DVD, DVDEcrypter, FabDVD (latest). The DEFA disk plays fine in
>> a player, but the rip programs cannot find it on the computer. How this
>> is done, I don't know. Finally, I had to feed the DVD output to a high
>> quality VCR and copied the damn thing.

If you can get hold of an analog DVD recorder play the DVD on your player
and copy via A/V leads or better still S-Video to the stand-alone recorder.
I had to do this once or twice and the quality was very acceptable, viewed
on a 68cm Sony CRT TV.

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