Well thank you, Stream Recorder, you've done me proud. I've downloaded IsoBuster and will try it out. And the others.
As for toothpaste and stuff - we've a shop in town with a disk polisher that strips some surface away to get below scratches and scuff marks. They'll polish your disks for you with it, for a small fee. I've done that a few times. Improved things but didn't fix things so I don't bother with it any more.
As for DVDDecrypter, I use it all the time and it was the first thing I turned to but it just hangs for hours and hours trying to read them.
It is all of that made me think of just recording the movie as it played on my computer and have done with it all. Because that's all we need. And only for a while at that, how much longer is he (or his little brother) going to want to watch Thomas the Tank Engine or Teletubbies? Not too long, I hope.
Anyway... thanks... I'll let you know how i get on with those progs you've directed me to.
regards,
ab
