Reviews of AnyDVD HD

1. 
   chadamus

   Reviewing 6.5.6.2 Beta (Jun 23, 2009)

   Goodness, where's the 'Report Abuse' button when you need it?
2. 
   DudeBoyz

   Reviewing 6.5.6.1 Beta (Jun 19, 2009)

   VALUE: It used to be $39 USD. Now it is over $150 USD Since there are free applications that can rip DVD and Blu-ray, that seems incredibly expensive.
   
   LICENSING: Updates not Upgrades - Meaning that if you buy a lifetime subscription for the 6.x series, your lifetime subscription would not include the 7.x or 8.x or 9.x series. Re-purchasing a lifetime subscription? That should not have to be the case. Any users who purchased a Lifetime License should have received all releases without additional cost.
   
   COMPATIBILITY: It does not work properly with Packet Writing products such as the very latest versions of Nero InCD and DirectCD. It does not work properly with some third party copy enhancement applications such as copyhandler, totalcopy, fastcopy, terracopy, kill copy, super copier. It has issues with other resident applications that keep an eye on disk activities, be it optical or magnetic. It has displayed issues with drive-specific hardware implementations / features such as Mt Rainier (native hardware packet writing support), LightScribe, LabelFlash and Buffer Underrun implementations such as BurnProof, SafeBurn, JustLink, Seamless Link, PowerBurn & JustSpeed.
   
   BUGS: It does not provide a clean rip in all cases, while the competition can and does. Updates are hit and miss. There are a ton of versions being issued, but not all of them are related to new protections. Bad code is often introduced as fast as older code may be tweaked or repaired. If the application had a more stringent quality assurance process in place, it would not be necessary to issue fixes at such a fevered pace.
   
   These issues exist independent of any false accusations of bias or grudges.
   
   They are documented, tangible and factual. They do not merit personal attacks.
3. 
   some guy

   Reviewing 6.5.6.1 Beta (Jun 18, 2009)

   pretty nice piece of software but I consider this spam posted every other day
4. 
   BIL

   Reviewing 6.5.6.1 Beta (Jun 18, 2009)

   As others have noted below, Betanews needs to change the rating system or just not tolerate people like Dudeboyzs whom have even stated on here that they have a grudge with the AnyDVD authors. Even though they say that they did not "start it" they have a grudge and should not be allowed to incessantly run down a very good piece of software with a rating of 1 or 2 because of this fight. Maybe Betanews should have the viseral fortitude to tell them enogh is enough. If Betanews wishes to keep its credibility they need to do something. BTW, AnyDVD is a very good piece of software that does exactly what it is supposed to do in the manner in which it was written. It does not need to to do things in the manner that someone else wants as long as it works well.
5. 
   emanresU deriseD

   Reviewing 6.5.5.9 (Jun 12, 2009)

   Amen, Fafner.
   
   Value is a ridiculous rating criterion. Suppose you can't afford AnyDVD, so you give it a 1. Then you get a nice promotion at work, you inherit some money, your spouse gets a job, or you win the lottery, so money isn't so much of an object anymore. Suddenly, AnyDVD gets a 5 from you. Ridiculous.
   
   Or, they change the price. It goes down, so suddenly everyone needs to update their reviews to add a star. Or the price goes up, and suddenly it's less of a "value", so the rating needs to go down. Ridiculous.
   
   Or, they issue a coupon or extend a special offer. What do you do--rate it highly until the coupon or offer expires, and then change the rating? Ridiculous.
   
   Or, the US dollar becomes very strong again (dare to dream). Or the Euro becomes weak. Or the Latvian Lat goes up. Suddenly, people change their rating based on geography, because the relative price of AnyDVD has changed. Ridiculous.
   
   Different versions sometimes get their own listing, but I have never seen a software listing broken off when the price changed. Hence, rating on "value" is senseless.

Discuss AnyDVD HD

1. Feb 27, 2009 - 9:31 PM
   Thebratboy

   DudeBoyz
   What problem are you having? I have a system with both a BLuRay burner and a Samsung Lightscribe enabled drive and have ran into no problems thus far. I did notice there is a new LS software, ver 1.18 out that I've downloaded but haven't tried yet but so far I haven't ran into any problems with 1.17.9