Check out http://www.roxio.com . They're still calling themselves Roxio there, a division of Sonic Solutions. I was reviewing the catalog and it seems all the software of Easy DVD Copy is included in the Creator suite. There's definitely been some upgrading going on.
Just a lot of word play. Sonic bought the software division of Roxio. Sonic... but they still use the name Roxio for the software, in fact still using many of the old Roxio employees. Besides the big bucks, Roxio also got stock in Sonic. Roxio not under the control of Sonic is focusing on digital music and using the corporate name Napster. Here's the August '04 press release on the subject. http://www.roxio.com/en/company/news/archive/prelease080904.jhtml
Makes for an interesting association, but one couldn't say the Sonic-Roxio software is connected to Roxio-Napster. Just one of those cases where one company owns some stock in another. That happens quite often. Until a company has major voting stock in a company, they don't own it, or have control. Here, Sonic bought the software and the right to use the name associated with it. They didn't buy all of Roxio. Roxio owns stock as part of the payment for the software. Roxio-Napster is a stockholder, not the owner of Sonic. Also, as noted, Napster is a corporate name used by Roxio for it's digital music interests. As I said, a lot of play with names, a person could get confused without a program. ;)
I guess the easiest way to state it is, Sonic bought the software division of Roxio. With the acquisition, Sonic got the right to the name Roxio for the software. The remaining segment of Roxio got the bucks and some Sonic stock. That portion of the old Roxio company now focused on digital music changed it's corporate name to Napster. So, Roxio went two different ways. One division, the software became a subsidiary of Sonic and the other turned into Napster.
BTW, I just ran the Easy DVD Copy from the Creator suite. I backed up Men In Black II, about 6.15 GB. This small, I transcoded full disc. I used AnyDVD as a decrypter and transcoded and burned on the fly. The burn was a bit slow, an old RW I burned at 2.4X. It only took about 20 to 25 minutes for the entire process. The video was decent for this type transcoder. On a 60 inch TV, the picture was good. Only under magnification could I notice the breakdown of the pixels. As I said, not bad. As a quick app, I wouldn't mind using it.
I'm used to the superior quality of RB/CCE though. RB/CCE is my choice for most of my encoding tasks where I want the higher quality video output and an encoder that works better under higher compression. Rebuilder is much better for doing the big blockbuster type movies or as I said, where one just wants superior quality in a backup. However, with RB one is talking about an hour to hours and the Easy DVD Copy is only about a half hour. So, one just needs to balance their wants and needs with the available software packages. As said earlier, "to each their own".
