Intervideo DVD Copy 2

Intervideo's utility allows you to make copies of your DVDs, but before you get interested in being able to duplicate the latest blockbuster, take note: it won't copy protected discs.

This means that the vast majority of DVDs you buy in the high street are off-limits, including discs of films and television programmes. They contain special tools to stop just this sort of activity, even for genuine backup purposes.

So what can you copy? Well, anything that isn't copy-protected. In the main, this means home movies. There is a tiny minority of commercial discs that aren't protected, but it would still be illegal to copy them without permission.

On unprotected discs, it works well and it works fast. It will even compress a DVD to the VCD standard so it will fit on a CD. If you don't have a pair of recordable disc drives, it will copy the disc to the hard disk, from where you can burn it back to disc.

But since you can copy data discs using Windows and a normal disc-burning application, there's little point to DVD Copy 2, apart from VCD compression.

Contact: Intervideo (no UK number)
www.intervideo.com