?? Question about DVD copying ??

JamesRK

January 27, 2007 11:10

I am being dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century. I'll think about the twenty-first century later.

I'm copying some of my old VCR tapes to DVD, so I'm doing some editing while I'm making the copies. When you make a copy of a copy with VCR, each generation has a deterioration of quality. Since DVD is digital, do you get an exact copy of the same quality, similar to copying data from one CD to another CD?

I want to do a few reedits and would rather not have to redo everything I've already done if I don't have to.

Thanks.

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  KEVD18

  January 27, 2007 11:43

  shouldnt have a noticable degradatgion in quality

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  JamesRK

  January 27, 2007 12:51

  Thanks. That's what I wanted to hear. [:)]

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  HAIRY

  January 27, 2007 13:55

  James,RK: Not trying to be a smart ass, but the way I was told was that since digital was just 0s and 1s, the copying is exact.

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  JamesRK

  January 27, 2007 16:48

  HAIRY, I think you've been at it long enough you don't have to try any more.
  
  You are correct about the zero/one thing, but when you are dealing with data, you have a check sum in case a zero or one is dropped the computer catches the error and either corrects it or lets you know you have a bad copy. I don't really know what the deal is with video DVD-R. I hope it works similar to a computer because I am going full speed ahead with my edits and not saving previous DVDs. I still have the VCR tapes though.

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