Now you can backup your favorite DVD movies with nothing more than a DVD burner and your home computer with DVDXCOPY software. Within minutes, using the easy One-Click technology, you can COPY and BURN your own DVD Movies using nothing more than the software, a DVD-ROM and any DVD Burner including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW.

The Nero Burning Rom Windows Media Audio 9 plug-In has been silently released by Ahead Software on all FTP servers. The Nero homepage has not been updated.

This plug-in will install WMA support (decoding) within Nero 5.5, Nero Express and NeroMIX.

We now can offer our readers the changelog to the recently released 5.5.10.0 version of Ahead Software's CD/DVD burning application suite Nero Burning Rom.

LiteOn have released some new CD-RW firmware updates for the following drives:

24th of December 2002! Happy Christmas.

This is the "Rylex" version, it corrects 2 parameters values not displayed correctly but not more, we expect detailed report to be able to correct new bugs.

We plan to open a job section, if you think you can bring us valuable help for maintain the hardware or game databases, please feel free to contact us.

Download: http://www.blindwrite.com/download/blindwritefull_link1.html

Blindwrite Suite is a set of tools to reproduce or clone any CD even protected ones. Blindwrite Suite is the more powerfull tool to create a perfect copy from your original CD for personal backup purpose. Blindwrite Suite can create CD audio from MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, monkey's audio and be use with an cd-rom emulator like Daemon Tools.

CDFreaks.com sent word that lapinou, a member of the Blindwrite Development team, has posted a download link to a preview version of their software: version 4.2.6...

UltraISO is a CD image file edit tool, it allows you to directly edit the CD image file and extract documents from it. You can also make an ISO file from your CD-RW/ROM drive or hard disk. It also processes ISO bootable information, thus you can create bootable CDs.

The Feurio! driver update contains updated Feurio! drivers for new CD-Writers

A-Open CD-RW CRW4850 Lite-On LTR-52246S LG GCC 4120B Sony CRX 210E1 (Some errors corrected) TDK CyClone 241040B

Easy CD-DA Extractor is a powerful and easy digital audio extraction utility that makes digital copies from audio CDs and saves as audio files such as MP3, Windows Media Audio and Windows Wave. You may use built-in encoders, get plug-ins for other free encoders, or use any Windows audio compression codec. Features include: CDDB, ID3 and WMA tags, file converter with batch support, tons of files can be converted to a different format simultaneously, serves also as a MP3 and WAV decoder and sound normalizer.

Just got word from CDfreaks.com that you can now download the English & French version of ClonyXXL v2.0.1.0 and there's also a CloneCD Profiler v1.1 BETA out.

Blindwrite Suite a direct competitor to CloneCD provides a set of tools to reproduce or clone any CD, even protected ones. Blindwrite Suite is the most powerfull tool to create a perfect copy from your original CD for personal backup use. Blindwrite Suite can also create CD audio from MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, monkey's audio and be use with an CD-ROM emulator like Daemon Tools.

Blindwrite Suite is a set of tools to reproduce or clone any CD even protected ones. Blindwrite Suite is the most powerfull tool to create a perfect copy from your original CD for personal backup use. Blindwrite Suite can create CD audio from MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, monkey's audio and be use with an cd-rom emulator like Daemon Tools.

DAEMON Tools is an application for multiprotection emulation. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running backup copies of SafeDisc, Securom or Laserlock protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD. DAEMON Tools works with all types of CD/DVDROM drives and supports nearly any CD protection.

Looks like that ClonyXXL will release a new version 2.0.1.0 in 2-3 days as they have updated their Germany site with what's new. Here's a quick translation:

Improved prompting. Improved ASPI support. New GUI. Scanning extended and improved. Faster and more exactly. New kinds of copy protection added. User Tools improved. (can be started automatically after scanning)

CDfreaks.com reports that Sony has released a firmware upgrade for their DRU-500A and DRX500UL, currently the only drives that are able to write both DVD+RW as DVD-RW discs. The new firmware has the following benefits: This new firmware will allow your Dual RW drive to record at 4X on 4X compatible DVD+R media as well as improve the DVD-ROM reading performance with DVD recordable/rewritable media. We expect this firmware to be released on or before December 9th, 2002. Please check back on this site then to download and install the firmware. We anticipate that 4X compatible DVD+R media will be commercially available later in December.

15th of november 2002 [updated!!]

Blindwrite 4.2.3 is released. This is a recommanded update, several new versions will be published in the next days. Each version will introduce new feature. We are working on a "clony xxl" alternative. What's new in this version ?

Blindwrite Suite is a set of tools to reproduce or clone any CD even protected ones. Blindwrite Suite is the most powerfull tool to create a perfect copy from your original CD for personal backup use. Blindwrite Suite can create CD audio from MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, monkey's audio and be use with an CD-rom emulator like Daemon Tools. According to VSO-Software the company behind Blindwrite, v4.2.2 is the only 1:1 copy software to support latest protection (Securom 4.8, Safedisc 2.8), without a CD emulator required.

Samsung have released some new CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and COMBO firmware updates for the following drives.

Nero Changelog: Changes from Nero 5.5.9.14 to 5.5.9.17:

New:

Added several new recorders