I totally get what you're saying 100%. BUT, there is a distinction that I want to make here. I'm not trying to argue at all, I'm seriously trying to understand something. (You know me from my posts...I don't generally try to cause problems and am not trying to be a pain in the ass on this...I'm just trying to get it through my head). We were told that AnyDVD preserves the layer break information...now maybe that's incorrect, I don't know. Now, supposing this is true and I copy the entire VIDEO_TS folder to the hard drive with either drag and drop or using the Rip VIDEO-DVD to harddisk feature, and I then open CloneDVD and simply use the write existing data function(notice, no transcoding and no ripping with CloneDVD...just straight up using it as a burning engine with NO modification at all to the data), that would not preserve the layer break info? (Seriously, I'm not trying to be difficult! )

This is only an area of fascination for me as I use CloneCD to do all my DL backups and have 0 problems with it. But I know there are others that have AnyDVD and CloneDVD kicking around and I was thinking this might be a way for them to be able to preserve the original layer break info without having to purchase CloneCD or use Reason's DVD Decrypter approach. It's not that either of those are bad approaches, but, as we all know, the more options open to us the better.

Thanks for your patience with me on this. It's appreciated.