There are many reasons that you may want to copy information from a DVD to your hard drive. In this article, we will explore those reasons and we will take a look at how you can copy a DVD to your hard drive.
I know a lot of people who collect movies. Nowadays, most of them have their entire collection of movies on DVD. This collection is actually worth quite a lot of money. For example, if you have a collection of 200 DVDs and each DVD cost you about $15, your collection is worth thousands of dollars.
What if something happens to your collection of DVDs? What if your kids decide to use some of your DVDs as little Frisbees? What if you want to watch one of your DVDs on a computer that has no DVD player installed?
All of these question lead to one conclusion—it is a great idea to transfer your DVD collection to your hard drive.
These days the cost of hard drive space has decreased significantly. In fact, the cost of a one terabyte external hard drive now sells for just over $100.
Do you know how much 1 terabyte of data is? It is a whole lot of movies. One terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes. As a means of calculating how many movies that you can fit on a one terabyte disk drive, we can say that most DVD movies take up between 4 and 8 gigabytes of data. Thus, if we take an average of 6 gigabytes for every movie, you can fit well over 100 movies on this drive.
However, if you learn to copy DVDs to your computer, you will learn that you can shrink the size of the movie without causing much of a decrease in quality. In fact, many movies can be compressed to 1GB which will then allow you to store up to 1,000 movies on a one terabyte drive. That is a heck of a lot of movies.
Well, how does it work? How can you copy DVDs to your hard drive and what format will they be in after you have copied them?
You can have a look at the best DVD Copy Software or use one of the many freely available tools on the Internet that will allow you to do everything that you need to copy information from your DVD to your hard drive, then shrink that data so it is no longer so large, and then put that data into a format that is viewable on your computer.
One such program that does this is called Handbrake which can easily be found with a quick search on Google. With Handbrake, you place your DVD into your computer, make the appropriate selection, and very quickly you can be copying information from your DVD to your computer.
