DVD X Copy Gold 3.0.2

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DVD X Copy GOLD combines the one-click convenience and ease of use of DVD X Copy XPRESS with the power of our bestselling DVD X Copy. Make high quality backups to a single disc or perfect quality backups - including menus, trailers and special features - the choice is yours.

DVD X Copy GOLD gives you the choice - burn your entire DVD - including menus, trailers and special effects - to a a single disc with high quality, or create a perfect quality movie backup on multiple discs.

Features:
- Burns DVD movies to DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) Discs.
- Simple, One-Click Interface
- Copies Special Features (Movie Trailers, Commentary, etc.)
- Copies Full Multi-Channel Audio (Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS)
- Copies Every Language Available on Original DVD Movie
- Copies DVD Movie to One Blank Disc (No Need to Split)
- Copies Episodic DVD Movies (The Simpsons, The Sopranos, etc.)
- Specifies Which Special Feature to Keep or Remove
- Includes Advanced Compression Technology
- Automatically Prepares Blank DVD Disc for Burning
- Free Updates and Patches Available Online

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The benchmark updates tell us the following story, here compared with rival Xeons from Intel:

SPECint®_rate2000 2P Servers
Opteron 248 33.1 (109%)
Opteron 246 30.5 (100%)
Xeon 3.2 GHz (1 MB L3) 28.3 (93%)
Xeon 3.06 GHz (1 MB L3) 27.4 (90%)

The use of PC3200 memory gives, Opteron a further boost:

SPECfp®_rate2000 2P Servers
Opteron 248 31.6 (106%)
Opteron 246 29.9 (100%)
Xeon 3.2 GHz (1 MB L3) 21.1 (71%)
Xeon 3.06 GHz (1 MB L3) 20.8 (70%)

Xeon is not even in the same league, and its scaling is poor against Opteron.

SPECweb®99_ssl 2P Servers
Opteron 248 2240 (112%)
Opteron 246 2000 (100%)
Xeon 3.2 GHz (1 MB L3) 1440 (72%)
Xeon 3.06 GHz (1 MB L3) 1382 (69%)

SPECjbb®2000 Performance 1P Servers
Opteron 248 38222 (109%)
Opteron 246 35115 (100%)

Another solid Opteron showing. I couldn't find any recent submissions for Xeon, for some reason.

SPECjbb®2000 Performance 2P Servers
Opteron 248 64427 (106%)
Xeon 3.2 GHz (1 MB L3) 61096 (100%)
Opteron 246 60865 (100%)
Xeon 3.06 GHz (1 MB L3) 57653 (95%)

Xeon is now showing respectable performance, but it's still not good enough to overcome Opteron.

SPECjbb®2000 Performance 4P Servers
Opteron 848 113473 (105%)
Opteron 846 107786 (100%)
Xeon 2.8 GHz (2 MB L3) 94405 (88%)

(2 replies) #1 mlauzon on 17 Nov 2003 - 23:08

Why would someone buy this, when they can easily go to the following URL, and make their very own DVD ripping, burning, etc suite of tools?!:

Doom9.net - The Definitive DVD Backup Resource

#1.1 Joshie on 18 Nov 2003 - 00:16

Most stuff has free alternatives... it's a matter of making the product appealing enough that you would rather make the purchase than use the free tools.

#1.2 mipra on 18 Nov 2003 - 04:11

Free alternatives eh? I would emphasize the word FREE

#2 Skwerl on 18 Nov 2003 - 00:21

These are actually excellent tools. You absolutely DO NOT have fine control over what you want to keep from the original DVDs, but it's a very simple and quick way to duplicate DVDs. After months of using a myriad of tools from Doom9.net, I have completely dumped all but two of those tools for the DVDXCopy apps. The only free tools I now use are Vobrator and IfoEdit to remove the annoying screen that DVDXCopy adds to the backup DVD image. The manpower required to duplicate a DVD is reduced to under one minute and I have never gotten a faulty copy. If only the programs gave one more control, they would be truly awesome. If you haven't tried them, I HIGHLY suggest you download a demo and compare it to the 100-tools-for-one-simple-copy method.

(2 replies) #3 jpcahn on 18 Nov 2003 - 02:26

DVDShrink is hands down better then DVDXCopy and it's free. I have never had it crash or have a problem. It copies to your Hard Drive and decrypts then you burn it with Nero no problem.

#3.1 Saadu on 18 Nov 2003 - 08:06

Roger that.

#3.2 fluxcapacitor on 18 Nov 2003 - 17:17

yeah thanks glad someone mentioned dvdshrink

#4 mipra on 18 Nov 2003 - 04:10

Gold version...man..another $$ for them

#5 mipra on 18 Nov 2003 - 04:10

Thanks a lot..that's nice though

(1 reply) #6 Ishmael on 18 Nov 2003 - 16:45

Help me understand this please. When I look at the example scrteens for DVDxCopy, I see several options for compression settings.

Compression? What the hell, I just want a pure backup of a DVD, a 1:1 copy.

Thanks for the tips, I will be checking out Doom9 and DVDshrink as well.

Ishmael

#6.1 Saadu on 18 Nov 2003 - 18:16

Well you get the chance to remove any naggy things like the FBI warning, stupid studio logos, russian for chienese people, and any subtitles or additional crap that you dont need, so you can end up with a dvd close to 4.7. But even still someties it doesnt fit in and then u have a compression ratio. Its not a bad idea.
I have yet to find a RAW dvd writer which can take 8gig dvd and publish it at 4.7. That sounds impossible since u have dual layers...

(1 reply) #7 Ishmael on 18 Nov 2003 - 20:41

I thought most commervial movies were DVD5 or just on a single layer, one side of a disk. That would make them 4.7 gigs would it not? Like my Matrix DVD for example, if I cleaned out all of the extra crap wouldn't I have a disk quite a bit smaller than 4.7 gigs because the source disk was only a one sided.

That is where I am confused about this compression stuff. I fully understand why you couldn't just burn a 2 layer DVD9 disk onto one side of a DVD5, there is twice the data.

Ishmael

#7.1 Saadu on 19 Nov 2003 - 18:26

Free is better than having to pay or crack something. Check the dvd size in my compuer of most dvds.. they come out around 9GB...

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