Speed/Quality of Clone DVD/ DVD Shrink??

[Dew]

I am using Clone DVD on trial at the moment and it seems to me that it is faster at completing the backup than Shrink
Since I am a Noob I wanted to post the question as to whether this is the case and what comments there are on the Quality of the backups??

I use Any DVD and have for sometime now and been very pleased with its updates and the job that it does for me.

I also use 1 Click DVD Copy, however in one forum it was recommended to me that it has its limitations for larger data and that I should use either Shrink or look at Clone DVD and that is why I am using it on trial. But I am looking for experienced comments on both programs before I decide to buy.

Also I have had Intervideo DVD Copy 3 recommended to me in a forum but the member said it had its limitations. When I posted back to find out what the limitations were I received no response.
Does anyone know if this is a good program or is it like 1 Click DVD Copy which I use for smaller backups.

I don't do backups on a regular basis and so I look for user friendliness and I found with Shrink I had to refer to my notes.
Now it is either my imagination, or is Clone DVD faster and what is the quality comparison???

I hope to hear from some experienced users.

Thankyou

[elizerrojas]

to dew. if you have intervideo don't by anything else for many people believe that it it only second to dvd Rebuilder(which is the best, in term of quality).
just keep the great and free shrink and the even greater intervideo and you will be set.

[writersblock29]

@Dew

You're going to hear this a lot... but quality is completely subjective. There are still plenty of people who are using -- and quite happy with -- DVD2ONE, despite the flame wars which declare DVD2ONE's quality as inferior to many other things out there. Use whatever makes YOU happy!

All programs have their limits. Even encoder-based apps like DVD Rebuilder have projects that will test the boundaries (in my experience, usually any disk that contains more than three hours of total footage, depending on how many sound streams you keep).

DVD Shrink and Clone DVD are transcoders, using the original MPEG encode on the original disk rather than re-encoding. They remove information to reduce the filesizes, is all they do, so that you can burn your copy on a +-R disk. 'Shrink and Nero Recode analize the stream, deciding just what can be removed without you -- the end viewer -- noticing, which is why they can take longer to do their thing. I can't comment on Clone, but many of the super-fast transcoders simply start stripping information without first analizing. Sometimes that's good enough... sometimes it's NOT good enough. Just which catagory it falls in depends on you; because, again, quality is subjective.