DVD Cloner

DVD-CLONER designed to backup your favorite DVD movies. Have you stored your DVD movies properly? According to a survey among movie fans, we find that half of them can't keep their movies more than 3 years due to the following reasons:

• 24% accidentally damaged by children or pets
• 25% naturally worn or damaged by defective DVD player
• 25% lost
• 13% become unusable itself or by unfavorable weather
• 13% others

So it is critical to backup your DVD movies and DVD-CLONER becomes your best choice. >>>

dvdSanta: The Most Easy to Use DVD Creating Tool

dvdSanta is an All-in-One software that lets you copy, create, convert and burn your DVD movies. It can copy 9GB double layer DVD movies into a 4.7GB DVD-R disc, can turn your photos into DVD movies with Hollywood style motion effects, can convert other video formats (avi, wmv, vob, asf, DivX, Mpeg,...) into DVD video, can transfer miniDV camcorder tapes directly to DVD video. >>>

How to get the best DVD quality?

To get the best quality involves the use of widescreen display monitors and a surround-sound audio system.

a. Widescreen TVs
Traditional televisions have a 4:3 aspect ratio, but movies are filmed in widescreen at up to about 2.35:1.

Widescreen televisions have a 16:9 (1.85:1) aspect ratio and allow movies to be displayed full width with no black bar or only a narrow black bar near the top and bottom. TV broadcasts in Europe have been gradually improved towards the 16:9 format for most new programs. As a result, widescreen TVs are quite common in Europe, but it is not the case in the USA where screen size seems to be more important.

Widescreen TVs will display the source video in any of the following screen formats:
- 4:3 format with black bars at the side of the screen.
- 14:9 format with narrower black bars at the side and the top and bottom of a 4:3 image is cut off.
- 16:9 format has the full width but the top and bottom of a 4:3 source video is cut off.
- 16:9 format (sometimes called Movie Expand) where the full height and width of the source video is displayed. This is suitable for anamorphic video such as output by a DVD player from a widescreen DVD-Video disc.
A trend has recently started to integrate other hardware with the TV. Thomson, for example, has released a widescreen TV with an integrated DVD player.

b. Surround-Sound
A full surround-sound system requires six speakers and a surround-sound amplifier. With conventional speakers this can be both expensive and cumbersome. Therefore there is now a range of solutions comprising very small speakers plus a sub-woofer. Some manufacturers offer DVD players with a full surround amplifier and speaker system. A few widescreen TVs include a centre speaker as well as stereo speakers and separate surround speakers. At least one model provides a wireless link to the surround speakers to avoid wires trailing across the living room floor. There is a diagram of a typical surround sound home cinema set-up with 5 speakers and a subwoofer.

c. Home-Theatre-in-a-Box Systems
There are now many affordable home-theatre-in-a-box systems for DVD available. These comprise a DVD player, surround sound amplifier, 5 satellite speakers and a subwoofer. In addition to a widescreen TV they offer a complete home cinema solution that can make best use of DVDs with Dolby Digital surround sound content and can reproduce most of the experience normally found in a cinema. They are also easier to set up with fewer cables needed.

DVD-CLONER can clone the original DVDs completely, e.g. picture quality, audio, subtitle and so on. The backup disc will give you a perfect reproduction of the original DVD.

Pocket DVD Wizard

The Pocket DVD Wizard allows you to make backup copies of your personal DVD's, Mpeg, AVI and DivX video and then play them on your Windows Mobile™ Pocket PC.

Imagine the possibilities! You can now record your favorite TV program with your DVD recorder and transfer it to your Pocket PC, then watch it later in the office, or on the beach! >>>

A DVD-5 (single sided) DVD-Video disc will hold nominally 133 minutes of high quality MPEG-2 encoded video, together with three surround-sound audio channels and four subtitle channels. (Without video compression one DVD-5 disc would hold only about 3 minutes of video).

A DVD-9 (dual layer) disc increases the playing time to 240 minutes of continuous video.

A DVD-10 (double sided) disc will hold a nominal 133 minutes on each side (ie 266 minutes in all), but the disc needs to be turned over to play the other side.

A DVD-18 (dual layer, doubled sided) disc can hold 240 minutes on each side and the disc also needs to be turned over to play the other side.

Most DVD is D9 or D5 format. DVD-Cloner can clone D9 to just ONE DVDr/rw disc (D5 format) without evident losing.