Extracting Digital Video from LaserDiscs? 92
americanatavist asks: "I was wondering how feasible it would be to digitally copy LaserDisc movies to DVD. Clearly this would require the standard suite of tools to make a DVD. What method would yield the maximum level of quality? Is it worth the effort to find a means of extracting the digital information using an LD-ROM drive, or would the S-video from a regular LD player suffice?"
LaserDisks are analog video (Score:4, Insightful)
If you've gone to enough trouble to buy LDs, you should be looking at the price of DVDs these days and realizing that its cheaper/easier just to replace your entire collection (or the ones you really want) with DVDs and then rip those losslessly onto your HD using a $20 DVD-ROM drive.
Re:doing this with origional STAR WARS trilogy (Score:4, Insightful)
The same is true with IP theft. Except that in this case, there is a one to many relationship between privider and benefactor, where in the the case of the haircut there is only a one to one relationship. But it is still theft of service nonetheless.