Posted by Marv Soloff on 05/22/07 11:18

Dietmar Haltermann wrote:
> "Grinder" <grinder@no.spam.maam.com> wrote in message
> news:f6L3i.123019$_c5.52528@attbi_s22...
>
>>Marv Soloff wrote:
>>
>>>Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Marv Soloff" <msoloff@verizon.net> wrote in message
>>>>news:CYJ3i.4739$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.
>
>
>
Made a copy - see above. Still could not figure out why my computers can't
find the disk.

Marv

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