Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 days agoAre there any good CD/DVD external drives out there to connect to a laptop? So I can put all my old cd's and dvd's to my laptop then my external hd? And hopefully a decent priced one?message-squaremessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up115
arrow-up115message-squareAre there any good CD/DVD external drives out there to connect to a laptop? So I can put all my old cd's and dvd's to my laptop then my external hd? And hopefully a decent priced one?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square6linkfedilink
minus-squareSalvo@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoIf you are planning on creating legal backups of physical media, you may be restricted in what drives are suitable. BluRay drives may have copy protection that is not able to be bypassed without custom firmware, specialist software and decryption codes. Some DVDs are also obfuscated so they can’t be read by a computer; to the point where they can’t even play on some DVD players.
If you are planning on creating legal backups of physical media, you may be restricted in what drives are suitable.
BluRay drives may have copy protection that is not able to be bypassed without custom firmware, specialist software and decryption codes.
Some DVDs are also obfuscated so they can’t be read by a computer; to the point where they can’t even play on some DVD players.
That’s what MakeMKV is for.