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Hello all, can someone enlighten me on what dvd writer i could go for and what software that will allow me to backup my favourite original movies and also allow me to make data backups of my pc..

many thanks in advance.

I would go for the Panasonic or Panasonic clone DVD-Ram, DVD-R, DVD-RW. You have the best of all worlds. Each Ram disc is equal to having a 4.7 removableHard drive. All good DVD players will playb RAM discs shortly, just as 2 years ago, almost nothing played SVCDs VCDs or MP3s, now allmost everything does. In the meantime record onto DVD-R or RW & play them on any DVD player.

Paul, what about software ?

many thanks

For `backing up` (cough!) DVD movies, you might want to look at the following sites:

http://www.dvdrhelp.com
http://www.doom9.org

which cover the topic in great depth. For what it`s worth, DVD Decrypter and DVD2One seem to be a very effective combination for dual-layer DVD movies. For single-layer films, DVD Decrypter on its own does the trick.

Mike