VSO Software’s ConvertXtoDVD is without any doubt the leading video to DVD conversion software. It combines unbeatable ease of use, advanced features and a great combination of video processing speed and quality. The software has matured over the years to support just about every format on the market, but VSO continues to release new versions [...]
VSO PhotoDVD is one of the best DVD Slideshow software to create slideshows on DVD. Share your digital pictures on DVD with your friends and family with any home DVD player.
PhotoDVD animates your images to make a stunning DVD photo Slideshow. You can easily add music and comments to your pictures. The result is attractive [...]
Pioneer BDC-202 is an interesting combo drive that brings you the features of a Blu-ray BD-ROM drive and a DVD recorder. As such it is an interesting choice for any home computer, but especially for HTPCs due to the Blu-ray playback features. We have just started testing the drive, and as usual our primary interest [...]
Maxell is a well known media manufacturer that has been in the business for decades. They used to ship media of their own using Maxell’s media indetifiers (MID), but recently the manufacturer of their media has varied a lot. We tested their current 16x DVD recordable offering for both, DVD-R and DVD+R. The DVD-R discs [...]
Premium optical drive vendor Plextor has released an interesting combo drive. Their new PX-300SA is a 16x speed DVD recorder which can also read Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs. The drive is a major technological break through, as it is first of it’s kind on the market, but it remains to be seen how much there [...]
Antiguan SlySoft, Inc. released updated versions of their products including Clone DVD v2.9.1.5. The changelog looks pretty good, including improved layer break handling. They have also a 20% discount coupon code available valid until 28th of January. Visit SlySoft for downloads, and more information.
Version 2.9.1.5: 2008 01 20
- New: Improved layer break handling
- Fix: “Clone [...]
Hot from the press! I just received information that VSO Software has just released a public release candidate of their upcoming ConvertXtoDVD software. If your license key is less than a year old, you are entitled for a free upgrade. I case you didn’t know, ConvertXtoDVD is THE best solution for converting and recording [...]
Not too many authors in the blogosphere seem to be interesting in DVD recording and blank media quality. While the recorder and media technology has evolved and matured over the years, the quality of available media on the market still varies a lot. In fact it can vary from absolute rubbish to high quality and [...]
Graphically and structurally enhanced, the user interface of this standard benchmarking tool for CD, DVD and Blu-ray drives allows all key functions, such as Benchmark, DiscInfo, DiscQuality and ScanDisc, to be directly accessed and managed through tabs in the main window.
Thanks to specific error messages, test results permit greater differentiation. For example, ScanDisc now also [...]
No matter what DVD-to-DVD-R compressor or transcoding software you use, MenuShrink will improve the quality of the backup. The scheme is simple - by replacing the animated menus with still picture some more free space is recovered. This free space is then used for the actual movie, resulting in higher average bit rate thus giving [...]
