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To: Steve Lee who wrote (21480)	1/20/2002 3:45:28 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 60323

Steve, re: "DVD copies". In a perfect world. it still wouldn't work well. DVDs contain 4GB+ of compressed data. CDRs hold <=700MB. Science tells us that if you convert a DVD full-motion video to a CD, you will lose most of the image and/or sound. I once had a copy of Jurassic Park II that was reduced down to CD-size. After a few minutes of watching bad color on a small screen, I hit delete and rented the "real thing" on DVD. An old saying is "If it sounds too good to be true ... it isn't true". PT Barnum once said "a sucker is born every minute." IMHO, PT Barnum is the ruling authority on DVD copying. As of today I have received ~50 emails on this topic. By next week, I may have 500. And the next week I will have set my email system to auto-delete any email containing the characters "DVD". Spam, est. Craig