I have a strange question... If you wanted to back up a DVD, and you really didn't care what format it was backed up in. Could you somehow copy the movie much in the same way you can tape a TV show? I mean capture what is playing in the DVD decoder as it's playing. You could in theory set up a video camera zoomed in and focused on the screen, but thi would give you horrible playback quality.

I posted this in the General tecnology forum, but if there is a better place let me know, I'm still new to this site. Thanks for any enlightenment.