Pros: I have been using Apollo Dvd Copy for just a little less than
a year now. I have not been disappointed with it at all. I won't use
another program. I trust Apollo.
Pros:Fast- Teamed with a good DVD burner you can copy a normal dvd
within 20 minutes. If you break the dvd onto two dvds you are looking
at about 30 minutes. Pretty Fast.
Smooth Interface- The interface is nice to look at and easy to use.
You don't have to guess at what to do next. Everything you need right
in front of you.
Compression options- You have plenty of options here. You can choose
to remove subtitles, remove audio to increase the video quality. Even
with the video compression in the 60's-70's everything looks great.
Cons: Like I stated before in the Summary. Life insn't perfect and
either is this program. On occasion I haven't been able to copy certain
dvds. Over the year that I have been using this program I have not
been able to burn maybe....4 dvds. Not bad really. Also, over the
year that I have been using this program I have only lost about 6
dvds. You see, sometimes when you split the dvd you are copying into
two dvds the second copied dvd just won't work. You just have to relize
that you are going to win some and not others. I think of this as
a game. You just can't win them all.
All in all though, Apollo has been a incredible program for me. Check
it out.
Pros: I had a 4 day weekend, so I came to Download.com and spent
a few hours reading reviews and comments and ended up downloading
7 DVD burn programs.
I was only interested in software that would
1)let me copy everything on the DVD.
2)only the movie.
3)'episode' DVDs.
At times I would want to do any of these three things.
~background~
I am using XP and have 512 memory and 1.8 gigs.
By Sunday night (day 4), I had narrowed it down to 'Apollo DVD Copy'
and '1 Click DVD Copy'.
The first time I used Apollo, the burn process froze at 60%. I then
rebooted. The second time it froze at 20%. (I never do anything on
my computer while I burn, so that is not an issue).
I rebooted again but this time I used 'End It All' so there were
very few programs running in the background when burning this time.
That seemed to be what it needed.
From that point on it burned several DVDs without making any more
coasters.
(To be honest, 1 Click DVD Copy also made a coaster even though I
was using End it All).
'Apollo DVD Copy' quality is quite good, but I am not watching them
on a TV bigger than a 27", so you might disagree with the quality
if you have a big screen.
I was pleased enough that when I got to the 7 burn limit, I went
ahead and purchased the program.
It has a pleasent enough interface and is pretty straight forward.
For me, it's very close in features and copy quality to '1 Click
DVD Copy',but $20.00 cheaper.
Cons: When you click on 'Output Settings' to remove things you don't
want from the original, it's fine. But when you are done selecting
what you want removed (subtitles, ect) and click 'OK', sometimes the
program shudders and freezes for as long as 20 seconds and you can
see pieces of the window that you just closed mixed in with the original
interface.
(I just tried it as I was writing this to see if it still did it
and it does).
I also don't like the fact that it doesn't remember what you want
removed. You have to re-select what you want removed every time you
want to burn a DVD,(other programs do -how come this one doesn't?)
So yes, slightly buggy, but I would hope they fix these minor things
on the next upgrade, but as I said above, it was good enough quality-wise
for me to buy it.
