Has anyone used 123 Copy DVD to burn DVDs? I'm pretty sure
I'll get it, since it's priced right and seems to be capable of
doing everything I need it to, but I want to make sure it does a
good job on the sound. It's pretty new and there aren't many in-
depth reviews yet.

Opinions?

Randy Simons

Randall Simons wrote:

Has anyone used 123 Copy DVD to burn DVDs? I'm pretty sure
I'll get it, since it's priced right and seems to be capable of
doing everything I need it to, but I want to make sure it does a
good job on the sound. It's pretty new and there aren't many in-
depth reviews yet.

Opinions?

Randy Simons

Why not just go back to your originals? Or are you copying
somebody else's materials?

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Randall Simons wrote in
k.net:

Has anyone used 123 Copy DVD to burn DVDs? I'm pretty sure
I'll get it, since it's priced right and seems to be capable of
doing everything I need it to, but I want to make sure it does a
good job on the sound. It's pretty new and there aren't many in-
depth reviews yet.

Opinions?

Randy Simons

I use 123 copy, and I find no distinguishable differences in sound quality
between copies and originals. The program is also very easy to use.

" wrote in message ...
Randall Simons wrote in
k.net:

Has anyone used 123 Copy DVD to burn DVDs? I'm pretty sure
I'll get it, since it's priced right and seems to be capable of
doing everything I need it to, but I want to make sure it does a
good job on the sound. It's pretty new and there aren't many in-
depth reviews yet.

Opinions?

Randy Simons

I use 123 copy, and I find no distinguishable differences in sound quality
between copies and originals. The program is also very easy to use.


If it's digital, why would there be *any* difference in either the
sound or the picture between the original and the copy?

George M. Middius wrote in message . ..
unitron said:

If it's digital, why would there be *any* difference in either the
sound or the picture between the original and the copy?

Are you kidding? Bits are like fleas, only smaller. Ever tried to herd a
bunch of fleas along a little pathway? It's almost impossible to keep
them together. One of them smells a dog half a mile a way, and he's
gone. Bits are the same way. They'll follow some cute electron out the
tiniest little door, and bam! you lost 1/200 of a second of data.
They're not well behaved at all.


I was about to tell the moderators to give you a +1 Funny when I
realised that I wasn't on Slashdot :-)

unitron wrote:
If it's digital, why would there be *any* difference in either the
sound or the picture between the original and the copy?

Because most DVDs won't fit on DVD+/-R media. All of the DVD copy
programs I know about either leave some things off the copy (typically
at least some of the audio info) or add compression.

That's why the OPs question was cogent.

-- Rick

Guinness Mann wrote:
unitron wrote:
If it's digital, why would there be *any* difference in either the
sound or the picture between the original and the copy?

Because most DVDs won't fit on DVD+/-R media.

That applies only to DVD's that have more than one layer.

All of the DVD copy
programs I know about either leave some things off the copy (typically
at least some of the audio info) or add compression.

No, they just copy the data to more than one piece of DVD-R media,

So how does a computer work with all the missing bits?


"George M. Middius" wrote in message
...


unitron said:

If it's digital, why would there be *any* difference in either the
sound or the picture between the original and the copy?

Are you kidding? Bits are like fleas, only smaller. Ever tried to herd a
bunch of fleas along a little pathway? It's almost impossible to keep
them together. One of them smells a dog half a mile a way, and he's
gone. Bits are the same way. They'll follow some cute electron out the
tiniest little door, and bam! you lost 1/200 of a second of data.
They're not well behaved at all.

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message ...
Guinness Mann wrote:
unitron wrote:
If it's digital, why would there be *any* difference in either the
sound or the picture between the original and the copy?

Because most DVDs won't fit on DVD+/-R media.

That applies only to DVD's that have more than one layer.

All of the DVD copy
programs I know about either leave some things off the copy (typically
at least some of the audio info) or add compression.

No, they just copy the data to more than one piece of DVD-R media,

DVD X-Copy is the only DVD copying software that I know of that will
split a dual layer disc on to two singles, but I haven't done a lot of
looking for other programs to do this. Most of the others, such as DVD
Shrink or X-Copy Express, do require removing unwanted soundtracks
and/or some level of video compression. Some do it automatically, and
others allow you to make you own choices.

Mark

Mark wrote:
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
...
Guinness Mann wrote:
unitron wrote:

If it's digital, why would there be *any* difference in either
the sound or the picture between the original and the copy?

Because most DVDs won't fit on DVD+/-R media.

That applies only to DVD's that have more than one layer.

All of the DVD copy
programs I know about either leave some things off the copy
(typically at least some of the audio info) or add compression.

No, they just copy the data to more than one piece of DVD-R media,

DVD X-Copy is the only DVD copying software that I know of that will
split a dual layer disc on to two singles, but I haven't done a lot of
looking for other programs to do this.


Most of the others, such as DVD Shrink

The name seems to be making a statement, here!

But, you are right and I was wrong about its function.

or X-Copy Express,

Also clearly described as a program that does data reduction.

But, you are right and I was wrong about its function.

do require removing unwanted soundtracks
and/or some level of video compression. Some do it automatically, and
others allow you to make you own choices.

It seems like there is no secret about what they do.