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Price: Free
Date Added: Mar 2007
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me, Windows XP
File Size: 1040KB
Downloads Count: 1020259
Author: DVDShrink.org
Here's one for anyone who wants to make backup copies of their DVDs on their hard disk. That way, you can use Windows Media Center or another DVD media player to play the DVDs on your PC. The program lets you rip the DVD to your hard disk in a variety of formats, including a lossless one that keeps the image and audio quality intact. You can choose from other formats if you want to save hard disk space. And you can also customize the quality on any DVD you rip.
DVD Shrink will preserve all your DVD content, including menus, trailers, subtitles, and so on. If you'd like, though, you can eliminate any of that content as well. Maybe best of all, it's free.
--Preston Gralla
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tatzelworm
Fri Mar 14 19:40:02 PDT 2008 Duration of ownership: 1 Weeks Strengths: Quality after copying is great, and copies menus, special features, etc. if you want it to. Fairly small program. Weaknesses: Difficult to do too much else with it (convert for MP3 player) once you have it on your computer, besides watch it. Not able to just copy the movie and make it one file. Overall Evaluation: Great for putting DVDs on your PC, pretty fast, and probably the best DVD copying software/program that I've used thus far. |
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travelerbob
Mon Jan 14 08:10:28 PST 2008 Duration of ownership: 3 Years Strengths: It's not listed as working with Vista but it does. Have been running Vista Home Premium with it for several mo. and it works just fine. Weaknesses: Overall Evaluation: A-1 |
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freddy2
Fri Aug 17 23:45:23 PDT 2007 Duration of ownership: 0 Weeks Strengths: For a free dvd recorder this is probably better then ones you pay for. Weaknesses: Takes a long time to encode and then record, but the wait is well worth it. Overall Evaluation: The saved dvd quality was excellent, worked perfect with roxio's 9. recorder. |
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alexmg2420
Thu Mar 29 15:37:48 PDT 2007 Duration of ownership: 8 Months Strengths: DVD Shrink can back up copyrighted dvds with ease, and save them to a hard disk folder. It can also burn them to dvd itself if you have Nero installed. Weaknesses: It cannot decrypt more complex disk encryptions. It also doens't back up dvd menus, thus one must copy it to HDD themselves. Overall Evaluation: an outstanding dvd backup program, runs fast, and gives you a video preview (optional) when backing up your disk. An overally amazing program (for simpler encryptions.) |
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zmanw
Thu Jan 04 10:51:58 PST 2007 Duration of ownership: 4 Months Strengths: this is a awesom software to shrink dvd into the cheaper dvd sizes. it can take off encryption for older movies Weaknesses: not much, but you cant unencrypt new dvds Overall Evaluation: good product for make ing dvds smaller and i recomend it with nero. |
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luiswinner
Mon Dec 18 06:11:33 PST 2006 Duration of ownership: 2 Years Strengths: a VERY GOOD and fast way to download DVD into you PC. This is an excelent decrypter. Ready to measure the available space. Weaknesses: doesn't allow to copy some protected dvds. May have to have that to be completed Overall Evaluation: I'm very happy since I first test this tool. I'm keep using as I'm not finding any better |
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