Any experience with DVDFab?

[timmus]

I am upgrading to the world of Blu-Ray and plan to back up BD movies to BD-25.

I notice here in the forums everyone is suggesting the AnyDVD-BDRB-Imgburn route, but I looked around and DVDFab appears to have an all-in-one solution for Blu-Ray (BD to BD-25). Any thoughts about their offerings? I use DVDFab for DVD copying so I'm really inclined to stick with them unless there's some compelling reason to go with AnyDVD-BDRB-Imgburn (but geez... $140 for lifetime purchase and I still gotta do the compression/burning?? )

[fritzi93]

How about you find out for yourself and tell us?

Seriously, I tried a test using Fab to re-encode to BD5 a few months ago and was...unimpressed. Not terrible, but not as good as BDRB (free). Maybe it's better now, I dunno, probably, it's improved a lot over the last couple of years. At any rate BDRB is as good for the purpose as anything else available, free or not.

I don't quite see though that one-click, all-in-one, is an advantage, which you seem to imply. You gotta rip the disc anyway, to encode directly from disc is foolish and shortens the life of the reader drive. From there, you start up whatever BD to BD encoder program you prefer, load the rip, start the encode and...wait. Then burn with ImgBurn (also free), nothing else is so definitely reliable.

DVDFab is a credible choice, IMO, if that's what you want to use. And for decryption, DVDFab is good, and there's always the free version of Fab, although the free version does not receive timely updates, it lags behind the pay version by some weeks. Or use DVDFabPasskey (still free while it's beta). I've been using it for months now and like it. While AnyDVDHD is first-rate, it's not the only game in town.

Good luck.