Cosmi DVD Ripper

by Cosmi

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• ASIN: B00009IAVY
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,274 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

DVD Ripper lets you copy DVD movies without a DVD recorder! Select your own level of compression and copy them to any writable CD drive, for movies that you can play anywhere! Also supports subtitles! Added bonus - Create a memorable event with Party Planner!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Spyware alert!, March 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Cosmi DVD Ripper (CD-ROM)

Do not buy this or any Cosmi or Starshine software. It installs Spyware on your computer and it will take an expert to get rid of it. Don't make the same mistake I did!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars never buy this one!, January 2, 2005

By 

M. Carry - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cosmi DVD Ripper (CD-ROM)

buy COSMI DVD Ripper Suite (Windows) insted of this one. this one works not as fast.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I would give it a negative one star if I could, May 22, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Cosmi DVD Ripper (CD-ROM)

I first burned a short film as a test. Unlike their claims, it does not play in every dvd player. It worked in 2 out of the 3 dvd players I tested. Secondly, the quality is the equivalent of watching tv with rabbit ear antennas with weak reception. Not appropriate as back up for an original dvd. I tried a longer movie and began the burning process before leaving for work. 10 hours later when I arrived at home it was still burning. I had to manually shut down my machine to get it to stop (program not responding.) I was afraid that it might have damaged my burner since it ran all day long, but luckily it seems fine. Given the quality of the first test copy, I decided it wasn't worth trying again. Then, of course is the spyware issue. I read the other reviews and searched the internet and found that cosmi has been allegedly associated with a firm that bundles adware with certain programs. If true, this is reason enough not to buy a product. However, my spy-remover software did not detect any suspect programs spyware/adware. Though upon uninstalling this DVD ripper, I noticed that there were programs and files left behind without an uninstall option. And if that all is not enough, be aware that you cannot copy encripted DVDs with this product anyway... which pretty much rules out every single comercial DVD ever released. Unless of course you obtain additional software to get around this. Such software is generally not available commercially due to a recent court ruling, but there is always freeware. Regardless, do yourself a favor by a real DVD burner and use different burning software.