DVD X Copy Xpress - Make High Quality Backup Copies of DVD - PC software

by 321 Studios

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• ASIN: B0000A0S37
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 19, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,846 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Try it first, July 16, 2003

By 

SaintViper (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DVD X Copy Xpress - Make High Quality Backup Copies of DVD - PC software (CD-ROM)

I've seen quite a few reviews by people who either love this software, or those that can't get it to work. Download the demo and try it first. If it works, you'll like it. If the demo doesn't work, don't buy it.

The demo worked just fine for me, so I purchased the software. It does what it says it will do with absolutely no hassle. In fact, the lack of setup options may almost be a drawback. There are really almost no options available at all. You put the disc in, hit copy, and you get a copy.

What you get a copy of is the movie on the disc. You get no menus, (although the chapters are there for skipping through the disc) no additional audio tracks, no special features, and only 1 subtitle track. If the movie is still too big for a single disc, it compresses it (suprisingly quickly at that). For me, this is perfectly adequate. All I really need is the ability to create a copy of the actual movie. The video and audio qualities of the resulting discs looked as good as the original. I noticed no additional dithering in the picture and the dolby digital surround stream was completely intact.

Speed depends more on your system than the software. Mine took a little over an hour to copy a disc on a P4-1.7 with 256MB and a Sony DRU-510A Dvd burner using 4x media.

If you want additional features, you have to buy the non-express copy of the software. With that you'll get options to pick and choose what features to keep. Unfortunately the non-Express version has no compression feature, so many DVD's will be split to 2 discs. What they really need to do is combine the features of both programs. They offer a Gold version, but it's really just copies of both programs, but still not sharing features.

If you want to make no-hassle copies of ANY dvd on a single disc, and don't care about extra features on the disc, this product works great and couldn't be easier.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More work than it might be worth., November 3, 2003

By 

Michael Ganas (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: DVD X Copy Xpress - Make High Quality Backup Copies of DVD - PC software (CD-ROM)

I bought this because I have around 50 DVD's and do not want to purchase the same ones if they damage becuase, like so many people out there I value my stuff. I installed it, it didn't work. I called the tech support at their NON 800 number, even though they say in the DVD package that they have one, but they really don't, it's a long distance number depending where you live. Anyway, the tech said that I had to get rid of some things such as my Roxio Cd Creator Drag to Disc feature becuase it blocks the DVD X copy from getting the info to the DVD burner, I also had to disable my Norton Anti-virus, which was no problem. So I go to make a copy but now I am faced with more problems. I am getting every image heavily pixelated and the movie is unbearable to watch so I had to download some more software to stop the pixelation. I did not mention that I had to unistall & install the DVD X Copy Express about 7 times and I had to purchase a 2.0 USB because it WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY with just a 1.1. Some movies like Animatrix and the Gladiator would not play in some players while they worked fine in others(would not play in my Sony DVD player but played in my Playstation 2? Weird),
but as of late the DVD's are coming out ok. It's just a lot of aggrevation, work, and money at first that you want to stick the software up back up their ass. Buy with caution, time, and patience.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No brainer dvd backup, but it's not so easy., January 8, 2004

By 

J. DEATS (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: DVD X Copy Xpress - Make High Quality Backup Copies of DVD - PC software (CD-ROM)

Ok, backing up DVD movies is a bit of an art. The problem is that the movies you buy on DVD are a different resolution than the DVD blank media you can buy this was done on purpose to keep you from doing a 1:1 perfect copy. DVDXCopy Xpress handles this problem for you by stripping away menus, non-English tracks, bonus material, etc and it re-encodes the movie recompresses it at a small loss of quality over the original (you won't notice). That's great and all, the problem is that there is an much better shareware program called DVD-Shrink that does this exact same thing much better! DVD-Shrink is like DVD XCopy XPress on steriods, it lets you decide what to keep and what to ditch. You can keep the menus and bonus stuff, chapter selection, etc.. much better product than this and best of all it's free, only requirement of DVD-Shrink is that you must have a program like Nero 6 that can burn a ISO DVD-Video.

Another problem with DVDXCopy Xpress is that it's not compatible with all players and all media types (this is because it can't always tell that you have say 2.4x blank DVD+R media in your DVD burner that supports up to 4x) it can burn coasters. Using the two program approach DVD-Shrink + Nero allows you to rely on the top shelf DVD burning engine of Nero to do the burning work and other software to do the ripp.