Ghacks Christmas Giveaway - Blindwrite and ConvertXtoDVD
Today is the seventh day of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway. We already handed out 35 commercial applications and five Giganews accounts to lucky Ghacks readers who hopefully enjoy the software and services that they won. VSO Software was nice enough to provide five licenses for their two software products Blindwrite and ConvertXtoDVD for the giveaway.
ConvertXtoDVD is a very popular video conversion software which can turn burn pretty much any video format to DVD. One could say it is an all-purpose software program for users who want to burn video files to DVD. Supported video formats are avi, divx, xvid, mov, mkv, flv plus others including files from digital camcorders, TV/Sat or, capture cards. No external codecs are needed to operate the software.
While we are discussing technical details, the software program runs on 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP or Windows Vista. The whole process of creating a video DVD of video files on the computer is more or less foolproof. You basically only need to add the video files from the computer and start their conversion into a format that can be burned on DVD.
Experts on the other hand should not worry. You can manage every detail of the process if you like so. It is for example possible to change menu titles, aspect ratio, add subtitles or audio streams.
Several options like the selection of DVD menus, the DVD size or the encoding quality can be set in the program's settings. This needs to be done only once unless you want to change the settings again. Support for various audio and subtitle formats is extensive as well. Some of the popular audio formats are ac3, dts, mp3, wma or ogg and some of the subtitle formats are srt, sub, idx, ssa or opensubtitles.
Another interesting option is the ability to merge videos. If you got many small video files, say Youtube videos, you might be inclined to combine them into larger parts especially if they are parts of one video.
The conversion is pretty fast. It took about ten minutes to convert three 22 minute episodes of a popular British sitcom on a Intel Wolfdale 3.0 dual core system.
ConvertXtoDVD provides one of the easiest and most comfortable ways to burn video files to DVD that can be played in software and video DVD players. It can really get easier than this. Experts will love all the settings and options that the program provides.
Blindwrite is the second product that can be won today. It is a software that has been designed specifically to copy game DVDs. The main purpose of the software is to create working backups of game (or other media) DVDs that can be used instead of the originals.
This can be important for households with children who love to play around with everything that is shiny. Can also be a great idea for traveling or holidays. Instead of taking the expensive originals you simply take a backup copy that can be destroyed after the trip.
Blindwrite offers three modes. It can copy (from disk to disk), read (from disk to storage) or write (from storage to disk) disks. The whole process has been designed to be as easy as possible. That's excellent for inexperienced users who simply want to create a working copy of their disks.
Blindwrite supports a wide variety of disk image formats including bin, iso, mds, ccd and bwt image formats. Each of these can be burned to disk with Blindwrite.
Both applications by VSO Software are multi-lingual, small in size and easy to work with. Good luck to everyone!
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Yeah its a must have.. :D
convertxtodvd4 . goodsoftware i’ll hope i win.
Thanks for the license Martin! Been using it and it is a great program.
VSO looks like they make great stuff! FTW, please :D
Hey Martin!
Thanks for your email. I received the license from VSO Software!
Feels great to win something you want :D
I like to win some thing frm here
I could use both of these. Not sure if you have any licenses left.
Thanks,
-mikedopp
ConvertXtoDVD is just what my sister needs for Christmas!
This software application is one of the best packages on the market today. I would love to own a copy of this software.
These 2 software will definitely fill my stockings!
For months I was looking for a way of converting videos files to DVD (easily)and came up with very few and none of them work properly or made it so simple. From all the software reviews, the ones for ConvertXtoDVD were the most favorable and it would be nice !!!! Thanks.
This is great!
sounds great – and looks great
ConvertXtoDVD sounds nice!
oooooh yes i have been looking for a good movie->dvd program
ConvertXtoDVD is a great bit of software. Count me in!
ConvertXtoDVD please!
Thanks
Hey,
Was outta town so am late. I’m in. I hope to win ConvertXtoDVD.
I hope I get it. Never won anything till date :P
wow, 7 days of trying.. I hope I am one of the 5.. :)
Could do with either licenses or both :P
Thanks for the entry information Martin.
I believe this qualifies as comment.
convertxtodvd looks nice :)
In.
Me too!
I have tried both of these in their shareware time limits and really enjoyed them both.
Especially Convert x, but blindwrite has been helpful in archival of original disks.
These are a wonderful freebie, thanks again to you and them for working this out for us.
/crossing fingers
I am in.
I’d love to win ConvertXtoDVD….
Just what I need. :)
Looks ace, please enter me
My PVR is bulging, my handycam is full, ConvertXtoDVD….would be just the tool!
Yes! Blindwrite is awesome! I’ve used it in the past.
Nice Software
Haven’t won anything so far. Really like to win these two.
Count me in, thanks !
.merle1.
ConvertXtoDVD is very good.
Very well, i want it too!
Please enter my name into the draw
convert me to win
Hi Martin, this is the first time I am applying for this contest. I am seriously interested in Blindwrite. I would like to use in for playing FIFA 2008 but hell y luck sucks, I know I won’t win….
Thanks for the chance to win.
This is for a giveaway that pricked my interest. Sometimes it just DOES THAT.
Q: You need to write a comment :)
Ooh, I have a lot of converting-relating dramas, this would be great ;)
The article is missing an important piece of information that I would like made clear:
What has to be done to receive the giveaway items?
Don’t see much use for Blindwrite at the moment, but the converter app has a number of possibilities … now, if it would just convert the pennies in my bank account to dollars …
Count me in for sure…
Been lucky once, what would be the odds for two times lucky :)
looks good! I want to try it!
Looks good, want to try it!
looks good – count me in
ConvertXtoDVD is a great program, good luck everyone
BlindWrite would be a sweet win.
Great prize again – please put me in the draw
Those sound like some GREAT software’s!
Sweet!
I’ve used this product on my old schools computer and i loved it. Please enter me in this
BlindWrite is a software I would prefer to win.
Thanks, would not mind to get either one, great products!
Hoping for BlindWrite…
Kurt is the winner.
I’m in also!
Interesting. I have a bunch of tv series i’d like to see in my DVD player. I’m in!
Count me in too :o
Im in :)
I love this proggy .. nice and lite! And it does a great job!
I hope I’m lucky!!
looks interesting…
Blindwrite is a must have for gamers.
Two great bits of software there!
Both sound great to me!
I didn’t get sandboxie (#1 on my list) :(
But I hope I get this ! (#3 on my list) :)
Put me into the draw for BlindWrite plz!
Thx
I’ll try my luck at this one also.
ConvertX ConvertX ConvertX!
This one I am going to enter.
I use ConvertXtoDVD a lot as I find it the best thing to use, problem being my license expired.
sounds good!
I would really, really, really want to get this!
Just want I have been looking for. Time to get some of these files onto the big screen.
Please….
Burn baby,burn!
Me Me Me
I’d really like to have ConvertXtoDVD, it sounds very useful. :)
Excellent giveaway!!
As an addendum. You can create profiles for certain disks or protections. If you visit the forums you find for instance profiles for copying PS2 game disks.
Dotan it is my understanding that Blindcopy is capable of copying disks with copy protection which most other programs cannot.
nice software!
Am feeling lucky today!! ConvertXtoDVD looks really useful.
Convertx seems like a very good application, but how does Blindwrite differ from other, free disk burning software? Are DVD games any different than other DVDs?
More awesome software!
Please consider me in this, i love both of them very much, my trial will expire soon, please give me a licence..
Interesante software, a ver si lo gano.
After having tried Ulead DVD Movie factory, TMPEG DVD author, DVDShrink and numerous other tools, I have found ConvertXtoDVD to be the fastest and the finiest DVD authoring tool ever. Great software.
Look likes a software program i would like, to win.
Nice software!!!!
Blindwrite would be a great christmas gift – for myself.
Would love to win it!!!
Got it!
I would really like a license for any or both of these programs…
I would love to have blindwrite… 7th day and I still haven’t won anything…. This one is mine… heheehe
I would love to have blindwrite… 7th day and I still haven’t won anything…. This one is mine… heheehe
Could do with blindwrite myself!
Convertx is a must have program!
Now this application I like!! Been dabbling with transferring video to dvd and find it really difficult and online solutions are very, very involved. This is right up my street, can I have one please :)
Useful software for me…am i lucky ??