
Intervideo, which bought Ulead not so long ago, is itself being acquired by Corel, with the announcement coming only a week or so after the launch of the latest version of its well-known DVD copying application, DVD Copy 5 Platinum.
Corel now has a broad range of video applications as well as a strong stable of graphics (CorelDraw, PaintShop Pro, PhotoPaint) and office productivity products (WordPerfect).
DVD Copy 5 Platinum is designed to copy complete DVDs, or selected scenes from them, to a variety of other media. Blank DVDs are an obvious choice and the program supports single and dual-layer discs up to 8.9GB, but neither Blu-Ray nor HD DVD. It does, however, support HDV format video and can translate video into highly-compressed DivX or MPEG-4. It can write to formats used by mobiles from LG, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung, too.

The process of copying a DVD has been reduced to three steps: pick the source of the video, pick its destination and select the format of the copy. Press the Copy button - OK, that's four steps - and the process begins. DVD Copy copies quickly; its speed is largely governed by the speed of your DVD reader and rewriter.
Featuring CopyLater technology, DVD Copy 5 Platinum offers the convenience of high-quality output performed when the computer is idle, allowing uninterrupted batch conversion of videos while the user is somewhere else or asleep. The new TV Show to Go feature can regularly check your PC for new TV recorded shows and video downloads then automatically convert them. DVD Copy 5 can even automatically calculate the best audio and video bit-rate settings to save space, and can schedule transfers to their portable devices at specified times.
DVD Copy 5 also allows the importing of high-definition WMV, AVI, DVR-MS, and MPEG-2 video files with resolutions up to 1920 x 1080. Users can even import video from the Sony HDR-HC1, HDR-HC3, and HDR-FX1 camcorders. The software also permits conversion of video files into H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. DVD Copy 5 is also ideal for converting videos for portable devices such as Sony PSP handhelds, or iPod video players, using the same technology featured in InterVideo's iVideoToGo for PSP and iVideoToGo for iPod. Additionally, DVD Copy 5 also can also convert videos for 3G-enabled mobile phones.
For output, DVD Copy 5 supports DVD + R/RW (4.7 GB), DVD - R/RW (4.7 GB), DVD (4.85GB), DVD - RAM, Dual layer DVD + R (8.5GB), Dual layer DVD - R (8.5GB), as well as conventional CD-R and CD-RWs. In addition, DVD Copy 5 features Virtual Drive and Disctool Support so users can mount DVD images on their HDD, eliminating the need for popping CDs for often-used programs, games, and videos. Users can even rip audio tracks from DVDs and convert them into audio CDs.
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