Disclaimer: I do not endorse or promote using this information to rent DVDs and make copies or to borrow your friends’ collections and copy them. According to US law that is illegal.

If you ever had an interest in making copies of DVDs but didn’t know how, or you got held up by the protection they install in the DVDs nowadays I will share with you how you can get around this. First you will need a DVD burner. These are pretty standard with a lot of new computers nowadays, but if you have an older computer, or if by chance yours didn’t come with one don’t worry, you can pick one up for an affordable price nowadays. Go HERE and look for Item#:N82E16827151153.

This is a Samsung 20X SATA DVD+/-RW Drive which costs a whopping $24.99 with free shipping. Ok, so now you have a DVD burner and we’re all on the same page now. Now you need decoding software to remove that protection that Hollywood loves to install on DVDs. My recommendation is picking up AnyDVD which is made by Slysoft (you can find this program Here). There is also AnyDVDHD for decoding HD DVDs and Blu Ray DVDs. This software is a little pricey at 50 euros for the AnyDVD (which is around $75 dollars I believe), but I believe it is worth it, here’s why: I purchased this software about 6 years ago. Every time that Hollywood changed the protection on DVDs, Slysoft would create a patch that they will provide to you for free to update your program so you never have to worry about the software becoming obsolete. Now you may already have a DVD copying program installed on your computer. If not Slysoft also has CloneDVD which is used to copy the DVD. Just to be clear, AnyDVD will decrypt the protection coding on the DVD which ‘opens’ the DVD up to be copied, CloneDVD is what will copy the DVD to your blank DVD. And speaking of blank DVDs, that is the last item you will need. The prices of blank DVDs have come way down in the past year. Here’s a pack of 100 blank DVDs for $24.99 as an example (if you wait for a good sale you should be able to get this for under $20). And there you have it: 1. DVD burner 2. DVD decoding program 3. DVD burning program 4. blank DVDs - You are now ready to copy away.

Here is an item I am excited about… It is the Sega Genesis collection for Playstation 2. It is marked down 25% to $14.99 with free shipping on orders of $25 or more. I’m excited because I’m a Sonic the Hedgehog fan and I never owned a Sega. Here are the games that are on this collection: Decap Attack starring Chuck D. Head Ecco the Dolphin Ecco II - The Tides of Time Ecco Jr. Kid Chameleon Flicky Gain Ground Golden Axe I Golden Axe II Golden Axe III Phantasy Star II Phantasy Star III - Generations of Doom Phantasy Star IV - The End of the Millenium Ristar Shadow Dancer - The Secret of Shinobi Shinobi III - Return of the Ninja Master Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Super Thunder Blade Sword of Vermilion Vectorman Vectorman 2 Virtua Fighter 2

Congrats go out to Forum member Pojeda who won this past week’s free giveaway.  This is the 20th giveaway to date so if you’re not entering it only takes a minute each week!  Here are the past winners and here is the place to enter this week’s giveaway.  This week’s giveaway is up for grabs to the person who correctly guesses the actor I am thinking of.  Here are the clues: He is younger then 40 but older then 21.  He’s been in movies and at least 1 television series.  He does not have black hair.  Good luck!

Freebie of the Day: You can get a Purina cat litter system for F-R-E-E.  This is around a $50 value.  See this thread and be sure to pay attention to Reply #5 which gives you the ’secret’ to getting this freebie.  Enjoy!!!