Interested in hearing from anyone who has copied a Sony DualDisc (Dvd on one
side and audio on other side). I returned CD back to store saying I could
not make a backup and I was refunded my money.

In news:enYRrI30FHA.3924@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
Dannie <sloopoke.noname@nospam.optonline.net> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Interested in hearing from anyone who has copied a Sony DualDisc (Dvd
> on one side and audio on other side). I returned CD back to store
> saying I could not make a backup and I was refunded my money.

The closest I have come is burning backups to DVD-18 discs. Those are double
layer DVD on both sides. (They hold, as the name implies, 18 GB of data.
They're cost prohibitive for most people I think but if it's interesting
technology it seems my credit card knows no boundries. I'm not at fault, the
credit card is.) Anyhow, I hadn't any issues with it but the drives that
I've used to burn this specifically state that they support the technology
and that was burning TO the media.

I'm not really sure what you were doing... Were you trying to copy a DVD or
the music side? If it's the movie side that you were attempting to copy then
it's likely that you can't easily do so. The movie industry has managed to
make it so that you can't copy a DVD without decrypting it in most cases.
(It's called CSS usually as that's the most common type that I've come
across.) Additionally they've managed to get the laws in my country (I don't
know where you live) to support this and to make the usage of software to
copy encrypted movies illegal.

A good search will pull up a couple of freeware applications that will
likely solve that issue if that's what the problem is. I no longer actually
buy DVDs but rather pay an online service to watch them. They send them to
me in the mail and my guess is that I watch so many of them that they can't
possibly be making a great deal of money from my monthly subscription fee.
(I have it timed pretty well so I can get/watch 4 or so per week.) Anyhow, I
digress... If that's the trouble you were having then that's probably why.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the
lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it."

Sherlock Holmes

Thanks for the response. Actually I was trying to copy each side. I now know
that what I have will not do it so I just don't buy them. I thought perhaps
Sony had the unit that would do that but after contacting them and getting a
spin I gave up.
Dan

"Galen" <galennews@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uGsVJI70FHA.2328@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> In news:enYRrI30FHA.3924@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
> Dannie <sloopoke.noname@nospam.optonline.net> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
>> Interested in hearing from anyone who has copied a Sony DualDisc (Dvd
>> on one side and audio on other side). I returned CD back to store
>> saying I could not make a backup and I was refunded my money.
>
> The closest I have come is burning backups to DVD-18 discs. Those are
> double layer DVD on both sides. (They hold, as the name implies, 18 GB of
> data. They're cost prohibitive for most people I think but if it's
> interesting technology it seems my credit card knows no boundries. I'm not
> at fault, the credit card is.) Anyhow, I hadn't any issues with it but the
> drives that I've used to burn this specifically state that they support
> the technology and that was burning TO the media.
>
> I'm not really sure what you were doing... Were you trying to copy a DVD
> or the music side? If it's the movie side that you were attempting to copy
> then it's likely that you can't easily do so. The movie industry has
> managed to make it so that you can't copy a DVD without decrypting it in
> most cases. (It's called CSS usually as that's the most common type that
> I've come across.) Additionally they've managed to get the laws in my
> country (I don't know where you live) to support this and to make the
> usage of software to copy encrypted movies illegal.
>
> A good search will pull up a couple of freeware applications that will
> likely solve that issue if that's what the problem is. I no longer
> actually buy DVDs but rather pay an online service to watch them. They
> send them to me in the mail and my guess is that I watch so many of them
> that they can't possibly be making a great deal of money from my monthly
> subscription fee. (I have it timed pretty well so I can get/watch 4 or so
> per week.) Anyhow, I digress... If that's the trouble you were having then
> that's probably why.
>
> --
> Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
> http://dts-l.org/
>
> "A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
> furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the
> lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it."
>
> Sherlock Holmes
>