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There are several reasons why you should keep a neat back up of your DVDs. You may dislike the way a movie appears when re-encoded from MPEG2 to MPEG4 format. Chances are, your original CDs may likely be broken, scratched or become unusable easily. Perhaps you would like to remove all the commercials and ads from in-between movies in a CD and just keep the main movie. For any reason whatsoever, there are a wide variety of tools available in the market, though it may not sound to be very easy.

Major reasons why you need a back up:

A backup to DVD gives you loads of advantages that no other backup method can match. We detail below some of the major advantages a backup to DVD can give you:

1.Blank DVD come cheap: Blank DVDs are available in the market for a few cents only. Only this medium gives you the same cost benefit. You could go out buying a whole pack of blank DVDs if you are serious about regular backup to DVD.

2.Low Initial cost: Most computers available these days come with an in-build DVD writer. Even if not in-built, you can get it at a very low cost, say $40.

3.Multiple functions: With a DVD writer, apart from taking regular backup, you can also make DVDs of your home movies, burn CDs with your own selection of music or just to copy data.

4.Multiple copies: You can have multiple copies of your stored data when you backup to DVD R. When something goes wrong with some of the disks, you are still able to restore the information from the disks that are OK.

5.Backup History: Backup to a DVD gives you a history of how files changed from the original form. This would be of great help if you happen to have accidentally overwritten any of the files, or changed a document two weeks ago and now need to see how it looked like before the change.

6.Robustness: A DVD is made of plastic. Even if it falls down or spill tea or coffee over it, it would still work. Thus a DVD disk is very safe to use as a backup media.

7.Offsite backup possible: If you choose to backup to DVD, you can carry the disks to another location for safekeeping. Thus, you are protected from theft or a natural disaster at the place where your original data lies.

8.Easy backup possible: If all of your files are into one DVD, it is simple and quick to just copy all the files to the DVD, with the help of the DVD writing program.

9.Easy and Compact Storage facility: Depending upon the frequency of your backup to DVD, you can very well store all the DVDs for a particular given year in a single spindle of DVDs.

10.Quality Content: With the help of a DVD writer, you are able to copy your favorite movies by retaining the main content and removing all commercials and menus. Thus you end up with quality content in your entire backup of DVDs.

Conclusion:

Backup to DVD media has become increasingly common due to advanced technology and cheap DVD burners. Besides, backup to DVD are having a host of other benefits as well. For example, they are readable from Windows Explorer and adapt automatically when you re-organize your files and folders.