Backing up DVD's

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Wondering if anyone here can point me in a low-cost direction for transferring DVD films to my laptop? Not that slow days are too frequent, but I tend to bring my laptop on shift with me, and when the rare chance presents itself to sit back and watch a movie, its nice to have them compactly on my hard drive.

So far, I've tried a couple programs without much luck and I wonder what others are using.
 
You can get USB thumbdrives these days which are plenty big to hold a DVD.
 
Gollnick said:
You can get USB thumbdrives these days which are plenty big to hold a DVD.
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You can get an external hard drive that can store hundreds.


That said, although I don't use it for DVD backup, maybe look into daemon tools? You can image disks and use the program as a virtual drive.
 
Slysoft works about the best and is pretty intuitive as well,
I have quite a large dvd collection and I travel a lot too, so
for me, it works great. I also use a Patriot Box Office media
player, so when I travel, I just connect my hard drives up to
that box and then run an HDMI cable to the hotel's tv or if it
doesn't have that, I can hook up the RCA composite cables too.
Very handy stuff, I've heard good things of Handbrake, but I've not used it.
Also now I can move movies onto my iPad, it is so nice :) waited
a while to afford one and finally got it! I can put several movies on
there as well as a ton of music videos too, have the 32gig wifi version.
G2
 
Now we have storage in TB I don't bother with much of the small file stuff any more. More important to me is that thing is really fast and with good quality. At the moment I'm enjoying Make MKV for extracting VOBs and transcoding.
 
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