forgive me, I just ordered DVD Copyware

[aero]

First let me say that although this is my first post I have learned an aweful lot the last couple of weeks reading this site and these forums.

I have managed to make functional backup copies of a few DVD's and would have been lost without the advice here.

But yesterday I did order the new DVD Copyware marketed by Tritton.
For $54 I have the feeling it is going to pay for itself in time after a few DVD's.

Although I have been using computers for 20 years, and my first was a Kaypro with a 50 baud (yes 50) telex modem and later a 300 baud modem, I have pretty much confined my head bashing and late night hard and soft-ware tinkering to communications.

So although I am no expert I will try and give a report after the software arrives.

I will keep reading on the software and methods to do the best job I can on backing up captured broadcast and existing vhs through my aiw. Ironcially that looks like 20 times the challenge compared to "backing-up" dvds.

FYI here is what I am running:
eMachines T2625 (althon 2600+/2.13 Ghz, xp home, one gig ram, 120 hd, one dvd read, one cd r/w dvd -r,+r,-r/w, ati radeon 9000 aiw 64m 2x4x agp)
(I got the unit from outpost, no tax no shipping 750 minus 50 rebate, an extra 512 of ram from circuit city for net $26 (wow), the radeon for 156 from newegg and a very nifty 17" albatron dvi lcd without a single dead pixel for $357 from new egg, no shipping or tax on any of it.)

[housepig]

yes, please do keep us appraised... this looks kinda similar to DVD Shrink...

[aero]

not same as shrinK, I think. Looks like it should be rip; decode; easy choice between shrink, split and/or dropping some features; and burn all in one. ie whole enchalada ala dvdxcopy full.

[betamac]

I reckon you have pretty much waisted your money the new version of DVD Shrink Version 3 Beta 5 does pretty much all of that and its 100% FREE

[aero]

Betamac,

I appreciate your support of dvdshrink which is a great package.
But you are wrong. In 30 seconds i taught my wife how to make dvd copies with dvd copyware. That is not going to happen with dvd shrink.

With shrink can you place a source dvd in your dvd rom and a blank in your rw drive, click one button and record? No.

Shrink is a great program, and dvd copyware costs $50, but time is money as well and you are going to make up the $50 in time pretty quickly. i think you would have to be making about $2 an hour to say you "wasted" a mere $50 in buying something that saves so much time in a a repetative task one might do 100 times or more.

[FOO]

You may think one button is easier, but you will find out
when you do a DVD9 with several languages and extras
and your video looks terrible because you had no control of the operation.


Why can't your wife do it ? Is she a dummy ?

[tompika]

I wonder how many wives do DVD shrinking...

[Gees]

Here's one. :c)

Although I only ever use it now on original, authored DVDs, if I go a bit over.

No - I lie - I use DVD2one

You know, when I first read this topic title, it looked like aero was apologising for having ordered it! :cD

[mrbass]

Betamac,

With shrink can you place a source dvd in your dvd rom and a blank in your rw drive, click one button and record? No.

as a matter of fact you can if you burn with Imgtool (Nero), CopyToDVD, or InstantCopy. I do it all the time as well as others.

You need to get a program called Autoshrink written by NYPlayer. Grant it...your wife might not be able to set it up initially. But once you setup it up once I guarantee you your wife could do it.

[aero]

Betamac,

With shrink can you place a source dvd in your dvd rom and a blank in your rw drive, click one button and record? No.

as a matter of fact you can if you burn with Imgtool (Nero), CopyToDVD, or InstantCopy. I do it all the time as well as others.

I understand that, and have done it as well. I am making the point using a single program and operation. Anyway as has been pointed out the new beta of shrink does as well, but if you look at the shrink page it makes a point of stating it doesn't burn, even if the new version does.

You may think one button is easier, but you will find out
when you do a DVD9 with several languages and extras
and your video looks terrible because you had no control of the operation.
?

I have indeed copied about 25 dvd9's. No trouble with several languages (audio and subtitle), extra's with dvd copyware. Are you confused about how video is transfered? It isn't going to look any different.

I don't appreciate the wife/stupid crack it just shows bad form on your part. The fact is there are billions of dollars worth of software sales through products that make things easier.

Anyone can sneer at those products as well. It is kind of like wondering why anyone would purchase an automatic transmission, or for that matter run xp instead of linux.

[Gees]

You don't have to justify yourself - or your choices. Or apologise for asking asking a question for that matter. :c)

We all go with what works best for us.

And, my husband can pull apart or put together a PC, and get just about anything to work when I can't. But he can't make a DVD. :c)

Hasn't had the time or interest to try it.

I've learned to just take in every fact I find useful and ignore the rest.

Do let us know how everything's working for you.

And have fun doing it. :c)

[FOO]

Aero
I think you have misinterpreted what I meant.
I simply meant that if it is really a "one button" solution,
then it won't properly take advantage of the options to
improve the video by eliminating unnecessary stuff.
If you copy a whole DVD with shrink, and you don't need
for example French or DTS then your video quality will not be as good as it could be, and that takes human interaction.

As far as your wife goes, YOU are the one that insulted her to start with
by implying that she was too stupid to operate Shrink. I was trying
to make fun of the male chauvinist attitude that you appear to
unconsciously have.

[drvax]

Aero
As far as your wife goes, YOU are the one that insulted her to start with
by implying that she was too stupid to operate Shrink. I was trying
to make fun of the male chauvinist attitude that you appear to
unconsciously have.

Nope, you are the one that "insulted" his wife. And your reasoning is unfounded and ignorant.

[FOO]

That is not going to happen with dvd shrink.

This Says that his wife can't understand DVDShrink. He said it, not me.
It is an insult to his wife and probably not true.

You will have to explain why my reasoning is unfounded and ignorant
instead of just saying so in bold.

[drvax]

That is not going to happen with dvd shrink.

This Says that his wife can't understand DVDShrink. He said it, not me.
It is an insult to his wife and probably not true.

You will have to explain why my reasoning is unfounded and ignorant
instead of just saying so in bold.

I would, but it would take more than 30 seconds to understand.....

[FOO]

I'll take that to mean you are incapable of explaining yourself
after two attempts, and discontinue further discussion as useless.

I was talking to aero anyway.

I really did not mean any disrespect to his wife.

[MackemX]

Why can't your wife do it ? Is she a dummy ?

why have you lost your dummy to suck?

if you don't mean to be disrespectful to people why do you bother posting the crap like you do?

do you not realise most people don't welcome it?

maybe one day you will realise what you post and what the consequences of that post may lead to as wise cracking is a fine art which you lack

I suggest you go get some lessons from the tgpo & will hay school of wise cracks that don't offend people

[dxn1999]

Back to the subject and getting off the wife comments. I just got a copy of DVD COPYWARE and it doesnt seem to be working for me. It makes the disk without any problems but when I try to play it in my DVD player it says no disk. I know its not my burner or disk because I can use other software to make dvd copies. The only reason I bought this I thought it would be easier. It comes with nero 6 for the burning. I already had a higher verison of nero so didnt load it. The whole dvd copyware is a 1.22mb you could put it on a floppy or send it through the internet in a email. dont know why they put it on a cd disk guess to make you feel like your getting your money worth or for people who are buying cheap computers thats dont come with floppy drives any more. Anyway my question is to anyone useing this program if they are having problems are is it just me. I call their tech number no answer and send a email to their tech no answer either so I guess you get what you pay for at least dvdxcopy worked and had some support. I dont mind paying a few bucks for software as long as its not in the hundreds of dollars it no big thing most people spend more going to a movie than this software cost.

[mrbass]

Back to the subject and getting off the wife comments. I just got a copy of DVD COPYWARE and it doesnt seem to be working for me. ...

It comes with nero 6 for the burning. I already had a higher verison of nero so didnt load it.

It comes with Nero 6 demo or Nero 6 with a licensce key?

[dxn1999]

It comes with a cd disk with nero oem Suite I and a serial number.Its verison NERO OEM 6.0.0.6

[ZippyP.]

I wonder how many wives do DVD shrinking...

Here's one. :c)

Now that's funny!

We tend to think it's all guys here on the forum so it's always a pleasant surprise when a member of the fairer sex joins in.

[drvax]

I'll take that to mean you are incapable of explaining yourself
after two attempts, and discontinue further discussion as useless.

I was talking to aero anyway.

I really did not mean any disrespect to his wife.

Well your first sentence is just more ignorance on your part. The second is just as ignorant. If you were talking to Aero, then make it private and don't post it in a public forum.

And your third line is is correct. Glad you finally did the right thing..

[aero]

Back to the subject and getting off the wife comments. I just got a copy of DVD COPYWARE and it doesnt seem to be working for me. It makes the disk without any problems but when I try to play it in my DVD player it says no disk. I know its not my burner or disk because I can use other software to make dvd copies. The only reason I bought this I thought it would be easier. It comes with nero 6 for the burning. I already had a higher verison of nero so didnt load it. ....

You basically answered your own question. You didn't install the needed software, and now have a problem. Surprise! you blame dvd copyware?

Just install the nero that came with copyware, it won't overwrite anything from your newer nero. YOU DO NOT need to seperately burn with dvd copyware. Within copyware it burns without you even opening nero.

[dcsos]

Drvax was so angry, when FOO was the one who really respected the WIFE..
You didn't need to apologize FOO
and AERO needs to apologize to his wife for thinking of her as a "DUMMY"

And we all know ow that DVD's differ
(ARE they epsiodes, a movie, or a documentary)

THERE is no ONE CLICK solution
The setting must be done based on the content..YOU MUST DO THIS!!!
If you click one button,, you may not get a WATCHABLE backup

bUT IF tritons PRESS RELEASE IS CORRECT they haven't stolen DVD SHRINK and no apology is required (unless he's apologizing for not doing a 'good job' by using s a one click solution)

TRITTON Technologies today announced that it will distribute DVD CopyWare by RedXpress in North America. DVD CopyWare is extremely powerful, affordable and easy-to-use and allows consumers to backup their entire DVD collection, including Digital Signature Standard (DSS) encoded movies without any loss in audio or video quality. It is available today through ecost.com and other top technology catalogs and computer retail stores for $59.99 MSRP. TRITTON will also bundle the software with its popular line of Viper internal and external DVD+/- RW recordable drives.

[tgm4883]

I read this entire post and I have come to a conclusion. Either a) aero is narrowminded and will not try another product/has fallen in love with dvd copyware, or b) aero is gaining something by pushing this product and trying to get people to buy it.

[The village idiot]

I read this entire post and I have come to a conclusion. Either a) aero is narrowminded and will not try another product/has fallen in love with dvd copyware, or b) aero is gaining something by pushing this product and trying to get people to buy it.

Off topic question for aero, do you (or did you) use Usenet a lot? Or are you a different aero? No reason, just curious.

[dphirschler]

Foo did nothing wrong. I laughed when I read his "is your wife a dummy" comment. (I could just picture Fred Sanford saying it). But really, he has a point. Why should you, Aero, assume your wife can't understand DVD Shrink?

If there was anything derogatory in the statement, it was directed at Aero for wasting money on the assumption that his wife can't understand something somewhat complicated.


Darryl

[aero]

There is no one click solution for 100% of dvd's, there are a couple for 90% of dvd's.

and AERO needs to apologize to his wife for thinking of her as a "DUMMY"
...
THERE is no ONE CLICK solution

Wasn't going to respond to this as a few poeple who realized FOO's trolling already called him on it, but Dcsos you have a problem with reading skills.

a) my wife would think people who can't read a forum thread are dummies, a few of you are attributing the statement of FOO, who clearly is a dummy, to me.
b) my wife has a phd in a highly technical field and handles software 1,000 times more complicated than the software discussed here.
She would tell you only a dummy would spend more time doing something that can be done with one click 90% of the time.
c) I hope no one stating otherwise drives a car with an automatic transmission..it costs more and gives you less control...opps, 95% of Americans do...

Look at some of the quotes, when I explained that DVD copyware burned automatically, I was told dvd shrink beta did as well. I have used various forms of dvd shrink including the latest beta, and that is BS. Tell me it isn't.

As I have said in a couple of forum threads here, I think dvd shrink is a great product, it is very good for dvd's you must copy. i would find it ideal if I was copying a complex dvd with very specific desired parameters and that I wished to make many copies of.

ONE person here has said they tried it and it didn't work....but it turns out they failed to install the nero internal burning engine provided...duh.

I don't work for dvd copyware (does anyone think they are going to sell many products to people who come here?).

MY point was and is this, this is an off-the-shelf product that is quite easy (IE saves a lot of time over the long run), it or competing products are going to comprise a lot of what will happen with the personal use dvd copying phenomena.

I have learned a few of its less then obvious idiosyncracies and a few neat tricks as well. And I would be happy to share them (like install the second part of the disk set before you say it doesnt work). If this bothers you, sorry.

[Coaster Queen]

As far as wives or the fairer sex opinions go, let me say that sometimes shrinkage is ok. And DVD Shrink is total great. Really, I'm not just saying that. Sometimes our software just wants to be held.

I haven't met a disk yet that I couldn't shrink.

[tompika]

I haven't met a disk yet that I couldn't shrink.

Tide and hot water?