How do you download movies to a laptop so you don't hold to use the DVD to survey it?

And how much memory would it use?


Answer:

The best channel would be to rip/convert them to .mpg, .avi, or .mov format. Then it is simply a matter of putting the record on your computer. Size is depended on quality. The better the feature the bigger the file. Converting DVD's to this format though violate copywrite and if you get caught could territory you in detention centre or paying a hefty fine.
You need to burn an dummy to your hard drive. The dummy is like a virtual disk. It take up as much space as a dvd. A maximum of around 9 GB. Depending on the program you use to rip the dvd, you can make the record size smaller. Go to http://www.slysoft.com for some software that does just that