Actually BD-Rebuilder DOES do dvd's but only in the output form eg: it can create movie only backups on a DVD from blu-rays (either BD-5/9 = bd structure on dvd, or as DVD-5/9 actual dvd output)
If you mean process dvd's then no, but thats what DVD-Rebuilder is for
Okay, I'm getting confused. What the heck is this product anyway? A "rebuilder"? People toss around terms like they have no meaning.
What exactly does this thing DO??? What is it called??? Anyone have a link to some kind of info on it? Because all I'm getting now is a lot of different descriptions of it.
Now, in case you're right, creating movie backups onto DVD is fine. It should also be able to read an original DVD and do the same thing that CloneDVD2 does with a DVD.
Look, this is really very simple. I have five different pieces of software on my system that handle Blu-Ray for one purpose or another. Every single one of them also does DVD's. I know of no such thing as a product that does Blu-Ray discs and cannot handle DVD's. That is my point.
Here, take a look at these rippers, please:
I had the DVD version of this ripper.
http://www.aiseesoft.com/product-dvd-w.html
The Blu-Ray version came out.
http://www.aiseesoft.com/product-blu-ray-w.html
Do I expect a free upgrade No! But I don't expect to be a new customer and buy the Blu-Ray version and then have to also buy the DVD version to rip from DVD's and when I got the Blu-Ray version, guess what? It does also do the same function as the DVD ripper does with DVD's. I know, because I now also have the Blu-Ray version and whether it be Blu-Ray or DVD, I only need to use the Blu-Ray version of the program, since it is backward compatible and it also handles DVD's.
So yes, I got it twice, But that's because one came out that did new technology. But what I don't expect, is for one to come out and handle the new technology and not do the older DVD technology.
If it turns out that the one that SlySoft puts out seems to stand on its own as a product that does a job with Blu-Ray, but won't do DVD, then it is because of a business agreement with another company and not because of DVD's being different. Again, we're talking backward compatibility with the same drive, not getting new technology free when it didn't exist at the time your first purchase was made. I mean, do you really believe that if CloneDVD did not exist and SlySoft came out with a Blu-Ray product, that it would not handle DVD's as well? Please!
Imagine an AnyDVD BD that wouldn't read DVD's. Does that make any sense? Of course not!
It does make sense to charge an upgrade for a BD version, if when you bought AnyDVD, it didn't handle Blu-Ray discs.
Do you see what I mean? Some people are equating upgrading with backward compatibility and basing their argument on the opposite direction, which I never said should not be charged for and these two direction are two different things!
I simply wouldn't buy two separate products that do the same exact thing, one with DVD and one with Blu-Ray. No thank you. I'll take neither. And if that means I'll need a different descrypter, than so be it. And no, I'm not cutting off my nose to spite my face. I'm voting with feet and not allowing a company to do that to me, while trying to point at someone else and blame them. The fact is, SlySoft entered an agreement eyes wide open and it looks like now they will want people to buy two products to hand one job and it won't be backward compatible with DVD;'s and these same people trying to defend them, would never buy a product that didn't handle both from anyone else (assuming that a Blu-Ray version already existed when they made their first purchase with that company).
Anyway, again, does anyone have a link to this thing? I'd like to find out for sure what it is and what it does.