Rip HDDVD - No Disc Found - Drive Not Reading
from notfromhere@lemmy.one to piracy@lemmy.ml on 22 Sep 2023 01:42
https://lemmy.one/post/4334839

avast ye hardies!

Anyone have experience with ripping HDDVDs? My bluray rw and dvdrw will not recognize that a disk is even in the drive. Bad disk or do I need a special disk reader?

#piracy

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Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 22 Sep 2023 01:50 next collapse

As far as I know, HD-DVD was a competitor to BluRay and so it’s not compatible with BluRay drives. You’ll need to find one that works with HD-DVDs specifically.

notfromhere@lemmy.one on 22 Sep 2023 01:52 collapse

Oh I forgot all about that. Thanks looks like I bought some table coasters

IanAtCambio@lemm.ee on 22 Sep 2023 02:26 collapse

I think Xbox 360 played those

JelloBrains@kbin.social on 22 Sep 2023 08:23 collapse

It required a $200 special external HD-DVD player to do so. Man, I feel bad for people who bought... oh wait, I bought two. :(

By the end, they were selling for like $50 and giving away discs.

I now try not to be the first to buy anything "new tech," I was certain HDR and Dolby Vision were going to do the same as Blu-Ray and HD-DVD and one would kill the other, it could still happen but maybe not.

chinpokomon@lemmy.ml on 01 Oct 2023 20:37 collapse

I’ll still argue that HD-DVD is mostly the better technology. The things which BRD tried to claim were what made it better were not things which would fundamentally have stayed with BRD. The interactive layer was finalized first on HD-DVD and was better.

All that said. I have many HD-DVDs and the drive. Before my drive fails, how would I archive my movies. 🤔