THEN "WHAT ON" AND "WHY?" DO YOU USE ANYDVD?
1) I buy DVDs from distributors, for a fraction of the retail price. Just like the stores and rental companies do. Like I said their worth $3-$5 or so. Or even the $12 I pay for most Sony titles. But never $20, $30... for American films. I buy, I back up, I store the original and watch the copy. By keeping the original in pristine condition it retains it's value for collecting purposes.
2) I buy MANY (as in 30+ per month) imported Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Baltic, East European, West and South Asian, African.... films that are not always Region ALL. AnyDVD allows me to not only back up those imports but also play originals in my computer drives.
3) AnyDVD allows me to not set region codes in my software or the hardware region code, which I am morally against and refuse to set.
3.5) I rent about 60 international films a month from multiple rental companies, AnyDVD allows me to watch films with extreme and outlandish copyright protections that would otherwise not play even in region-free-code-free-all-media HOME players!
4) AnyDVD-HD allows me to watch HD-DVD, BluRay, and inadvertently HVD 2.5 discs on a non-compliant systems.
5) AnyDVD-HD (again inadvertently) allows me to burn HDR and BDR discs on my burner on a non-compliant system with Nero.
6) AnyDVD allows me to use CloneDVDMobile to find even the most deeply hidden "easter eggs" on DVDs so that I can watch them without having to enter "up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, A, C, A, B, B, A"
on the controller. (How many remember that code?)
Oh I think we all know what it's used for, I would think most if not all have done it, just don't talk about it. You know, once or twice here and there. :agree:
Making legal backups of DVD video media within the boundaries of WTO/WTA regulations.
That's what you're talking about right.