Reviews of CloneDVD

1. 
   bob0379

   Reviewing 2.9.2.0 (Dec 19, 2008)

   Useless, wast my discs! I lost many blank discs. No dvd movies made by this played on my DVD player.
2. 
   dickslapp

   Reviewing 2.9.2.0 (Nov 14, 2008)

   I don't know what Klone is talking about. I have enjoyed this product for years. I bought it, along with AnyDVD, and haven't been more satisified. Updates for both products come frequently. And I have never had a problem making a backup of any of my movies.
   
   Note: I was frustrated with the trial versions since you could not update (without a bit of registry hacking). Howerver, I strongly believe, if you are going to frequently use an excellent product, then buy it.
3. 
   klone

   Reviewing 2.9.2.0 (Oct 19, 2008)

   Slysoft hasn't made any major enhancements or added new features to CloneDVD in over 2 years (see the changelog if you don't believe me). They have basically sat on the program since they bought it from Elaborate Bytes.
   
   To give you an idea of how out of date the program is, pop in a Sony DVD with ARccOS protection. CloneDVD in its all of its dumbness will display all of the gargabe VTSes that ARccOS protection adds to the DVD. CloneDVD's main competitor DVDFab is much more intelligent and hides these garbage VTSes from the end user.
   
   CloneDVD is also having more and more problems with recent DVDs. To name just a few recent releases, Leatherheads and You Don't Mess With The Zohan both completely broke CloneDVD. Customers like myself had to wait a month for Slysoft to fix CloneDVD to work with these DVDs. If you don't believe me, go to Slysoft's forum and read all the posts about these DVDs.
   
   On the other hand, its main competitor DVDFab had no problems with these DVDs and worked as advertised. Slysoft tried to claim CloneDVD couldn't handle these DVDs because the protection was deliberately targeting CloneDVD but that is rubbish. It's because CloneDVD has not had any significant updates in two years.
   
   As I said in my CloneDVD Mobile review, Slysoft's guarantee of free lifetime updates doesn't mean squat if the program is no longer actively developed which is currently the case with CloneDVD. If Slysoft wants 39.00 euros for this program, they need to put more effort into the program (more enhancements and new features).
   
   Two much better options are DVD Decrypter (free) and DVDFab (pay). Before anyone complains DVD Decrypter hasn't been updated in 2 years, you can pretty much say the same thing about CloneDVD. If you want a program that is still actively developed, get DVDFab.
4. 
   war593122

   Reviewing 2.9.1.10 Beta (Oct 13, 2008)

   - New: Handling of invalid navigation packs
   - Fix: Repairing DVD structure didn't work with some titles
   - Fix: Possible crash in transcoder
   - Some minor changes and improvements
5. 
   lanky

   Reviewing 2.9.1.8 Beta (Jun 5, 2008)

   Version 2.9.1.8 2008 06 05
   - New: Added option to switch back to Windows filesystem for reading from a Video DVD
   - Fix: Detection of DVD-R DL discs with some DVD writer models
   - Fix: NavigationPack Error 18 with some DVDs

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