Creative Video Blaster

[jass]

I have just saw this here (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Creative-039-s-Video-Blaster-Editor-50157.shtml)
I imagine this can capture video from the analog outs so technically there should be no problems with ripping DVDs that are copy-protected.
Could be great for movies, I wonder if this would work with DVD Audio, too.
What do you think about it?

[nekrosoft13]

didn't creative made somethign like that before? i remmember it was rather bad product

[jass]

You got me digging...
I found "Audigy 2ZS Video Editor" which seems pretty good, see this
review on pcmag from 2005 (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1883461,00.asp) and "Creative Labs Video Blaster - Digital VCR" from 2002 that was quite bad according to this review (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/19/1746239.shtmlv).
I just wonder how it works - taking the analog signal and actually recording it from scratch or is it some form of transcoding?

[GlowStick]

Macrovision protection found on dvd's will cause the 'recorded' image to be dark and unuseable.

[Woodelf]

AnyD*D along with D*D shrink and nero for protection/compression/editing/burning (D*D shrink uses nero).

AnyD*D Now support's Blueray, HDdvd and direct to hard drive ripping (incase of any D*Dshrink reading error), just keep it updated weekly.
Sometimes you have to wait a month for a movie to get support.