Make your own sleek wide screen display in about 5 minutes (maybe less if you're one of the cool kids ;) Really easy to do - Looks great when it's finished!
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Step 1: Grab Your Gear - TVs and DVDs
Grab 2 TVs, relatively the same size. It doesn't matter how old the TVs are, just as long as a modern DVD player can be hooked up to it. Set them side by side with as little space between them as possible.
Step 2: Prepare the Movie - Make a "Backup Copy"
Now that your TVs are hooked up to your DVD players, go to your computer and make a "backup copy" of the movie you'd like to watch. If you don't know how to do so, see this tutorial using DVD Shrink.
Insert the original movie into one DVD player, and the backup copy into the other DVD player.
Step 3: Zoom Zoom Zoom!
Press play at exactly the same time on both DVD players. Now, on your remote, press the Zoom button. If this button isn't on your remote, it's probably in your DVD players resolution settings. Adjust the zoom to X4 on both players. Then, press the left and right arrow keys to shift the frame to the left and right sides of your TVs.
Step 4: Sit, Relax, and Enjoy!
Congrats! You've just saved a few thousand dollars by making a wide screen TV! Although there is a bar in the middle of the action, the money you've saved is definitely worth it - Especially if you're a starving college student.
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9 years ago on Step 4
So, saved money you say? but you bought 2 x tv's and 2 x dvdplayers + 1 x blank dvd disc :-P
but yeah, I know it's meant to be funny and I give it a 3 on the dice.
9 years ago on Step 4
lame...
12 years ago on Introduction
1. It would be just as expensive to buy two tv and two dvd players as just getting a widescreen. 2. Copying a DVD is illegal. 3. You loose part of your picture between the tvs. sorry but that's not really a good idea.
Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
copying dvds is legal if u don't sell them or give them to freinds
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
it's perfectly legal if it's for your own personal use only it's illegal if you distribute that copy, even to an individual person. i make backups of all my dvds, they're just on my hard drive, to be burned in the event of damage to my dvds.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
joe is right. if it's for your own use, its legal. and yes, i own an original copy. So...yes, it was legal. And no, i didn't sell it.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
Actually, in the US, if you break encryption or other copy protection measures, it is still illegal whether you own a license to the original or not. All thanks to the DMCA.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
i hate the dmca and the idiot persident clinton who signed it in to law!! i'm in favor of the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Acts (look it up on wikipedia)
Reply 10 years ago on Introduction
Oh, that was Clinton? He's an even worse person than I thought.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
What about the Congress that passed it unanimously? Even if he vetoed it, they still could have pushed it through.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
yeah, i know... still didn't like him as a president, though.
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
EHEM hes not "breaking encryption or other copy protection measures" its a DVD not like he has to break something to copy it.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
actually now adays they do have encryptions on DVDs so you cant copy it what so ever
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
wrong. I currently have a program on my pc that decodes it, copies it, then recodes it to put it on a dvd.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
i have the same software and i even have a software to create the ipod format for the dvd so i can watch my dvds on my ipod. all free software off the internet.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
dude first decoding is breaking the encryption second its still illegal with most DVDs
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
even my own, eh?
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
by your own do you mean ones you bought or ones you recorded if its one you recorded im sure you can copy it if its one you bought you still cant LEGALLY do it
Reply 12 years ago on Introduction
Sorry for using a vernacular, what I meant is circumventing copy protection. While there are unencrypted and non-Macrovison enabled DVDs, almost all new releases (for example, 300) do have copy protection enabled. The tutorial linked is a how-to on breaking encryption.
A one-to-one copy is possible with encryption intact, but it would still not fall under any interpretation of "fair use" I've heard of, and still be a violation of copyright.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Copying a DVD isn't illegal. As long as your keeping the copy and your own the original. Most people buy a dvd and only use the original to copy it. After that they never use the original again.