New competitor to DVD2oneX and Popcorn

[thoughton]

This is fairly old news - I mentioned it in my blog a couple of weeks ago figuring someone else would start the discussion here, but I can't see any mention of it.

From the same people who make Dragon Burn...

http://www.ntius.com/default.asp?p=news/xnews060105DragonFlix

[willrob]

It's hard to compare to existing technology since it hasn't been released yet (no price either). But this passage is interesting:

" A unique and powerful feature of Dragon FliX is its multi-burning capability, which enables users to take full advantage of multiple DVD burners available to them, to compress and simultaneously burn multiple copies of the same movie. "

I don't have multiple burners, but I wonder if Toast can do this? Could one launch multiple copies of toast and select a different drive?

[macuser25]

yes, you can launch multiple copies of toast or popcorn to do this.

seems pretty silly to announce a product and not make any information available on your web site or make a download available.

vapor ware.

[thoughton]

vapor ware.

That would be easier to believe if they didn't already make several fairly high profile bits of software

[chikanakan]

Well, I've tried their PC product for doing this and it isn't very good. About the same options as Popcorn and it doesn't even come close to DTOX.

Considering Dragon Burn is pretty poor and has lots of problems burning DVD (especially DVD Dual Layer), I would be very skeptical about the quality of this (if it ever comes out).

Unless they sell it for very cheap, there really is not a need for this in my opinion. They won't get better quality then what already exists, and making 5 copies of a DVD on 5 burners at once sounds like a Piracy ring to me. They are a Taiwan's company though, so.....

[Ladd]

Considering Dragon Burn is pretty poor and has lots of problems burning DVD (especially DVD Dual Layer)

FWIW: Dragon Burn 4.1.20 was released yesterday and purportedly fixes the dual-layer issues.

[chikanakan]

Actually all they did was add DVD-R DL support (which is a worthless format by the way). They still don't set the layer break correctly on DVD+R DL disc, and they can't burn image files at all it seems now. This all with 4.1.20. Used Toast and Popcorn both with out any issues, so I'll stick with them.

[Spoffo]

Dragon Burn was a TOTAL POS, on which I wasted more time (and coasters) than any product I've ever bought. It never burned a single disk without at least a few breakups. Switching to Toast was like getting an abcess removed. I would never buy another product from those bozos.

(I did like their splash screen, though)