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Freetochat

I am an avid film buff and have a collection of over 800 Dvd's. The disks take up a lot of space, but I would hate to dispose of them. Has anyone looked at storing Dvd's on an external hard disk. They are now so cheap, and you could store over 100 films on a disk the size of a paperback. But how to play them back.

roboughton

You have a few options here

Copy the disks as they are with no compresion i.e. they go to the Harddrive at aprox 7gig per DVD.

Compress the DVD's using software such as DVD Shrink (i can give more info via email if you need it), the problem here is you lose some quality.

You can change them all to Mpeg/Avi and play them on your Computer.

With the first two options you keep the vob files and can burn them to DVD at any time, you can also play them from most software DVD players like Cyber Link.

I personaly would buy a 1 or 2 terabyte station and back them up in full copying every disk as it is.

If you need more info just ask.

A good sorce of info is

Detourer

Hi freetochat

I too collect DVD's..well my daughter does...and we have hundreds [1000+] Rolling Eyes

We don't yet have a storage problem.....rather is a simple listing prog. I guess I could fluff around with one of the databases/spreadsheets or whatever but does anyone know of a down-loadable one?

ScotJimland

Exustrek

Try this link, it'll do pretty much what you're asking for

Bryan

Snelly · Eastern Rally Co-ordinator

Dump the hard plastic covers and just keep all the discs in a cd wallet.

G2EWS

I was getting a bit cheesed off with the amount of DVD's I had, along with storing and being to access them.

No one else in the family seemed to want to put them back alphabetically!

So I went over to this storage system: