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2010
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#3 - Cucusoft iPod Video Converter + DVD to iPod Suite
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Best Price:$39.95
 | Cucusoft's iPod Video Converter + DVD to iPod and iPhone Converter Suite is a very good choice, but not our top pick. Basically, this is really easy to use software that lets you convert DVDs (including HollyWood copy protected movie DVDs) and video from camcorders or digital video recorders. A year ago, this product may have been our #1 choice, but new competition places 1Click DVD to iPod in that role. However, Cucusoft is still a good product.
When looking for DVD to iPod software, it's important to know that this Cucusoft product has many of the most important features. It allows you to convert your favorite DVD's to play on your iPod Video, iPhone, or iTouch.
Beware of other websites and products that are really just e-books (not software) that tell you how to do this. The Cucusoft product is real software that's easy to use. This Cucusoft product has the ability to convert most copyright encrypted DVD movies, but not as many as our top choice.
We've found that this Cucusoft conversion software is one of the easiest program to use, converts copyright encrypted DVD's (most of them), and comes with frequent free updates. This product also has a large number of useful features that are easy to use. And, this software also converts your video or DVD to many types of output video media. This means you can play it on an iPod, iPhone, iTouch, or PSP (Play Station Portable).
| Pros: | Cons: |  | Good copy quality | | DVD to iPod | | DVD to iPhone | | DVD to iTouch | | Video to iPod (downloaded movies) | | You choose compression/Video quality level | | Good Compression ratio | | Episodic support |
| | Not quite as good video quality as our #1 Choice | | Below Average Customer Support |
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Features:
Cucusoft PSP/iPod Video Converter + DVD to PSP/iPod Converter Suite is the one of the best iPod converter software we've seen yet. This product is actually a suite. It's two programs bundled together to form an all-in-one video Conversion package. Convert DVD movies to many formats including iPod. Convert Video from video cameras to iPod (or many other formats like PSP Playstation Portable). The software is really easy to use. Check out our demo (click the link in the left column). For most users, you'll just want to put a source DVD in your DVD drive. Open the program. Choose to output to iPod format, then click 'Convert'. That's it! Once it's converted, it opens your iPod and loads it. You have to connect your iPod to the computer via cables provided with your iPod. - Converts copy protected DVDs to iPod format
- Converts copy protected DVDs to iPhone format
- Converts copy protected DVDs to iTouch format
- CSS decryption. This software can decrypt the copy protected Hollywood movies. You will be able to record them to your iPod
- Episodic support
- Optionally remove movie extras
- Optionally remove movie menus
- Special encoding technology ensures perfect video quality
Usability:
This product is very simple to use. Just load the DVD, deselect unwanted extras on the DVD, then click the convert button. We've found this software to be easy to use. You should beware of other protrams that are advertised as iPod conversion software. Mainly, all they are is link pages to file-sharing networks. They claim to give you unlimited iPod downloads. They don't really offer useful DVD to iPod conversion software but instead they provide you with links to software that not exactly easy to use.
Watch out for the following sites:- ipodmoviesunlimited.com
- movies2ipod.com
- video-2-ipod.com
- feedmyipods.com
- myipoddownloads.com
- ipodmoviesdownload.com
- dvdtoipod.com
- dvdxipod.com
- unlimitedipodmovies.com
- ipod-flicks.com
- dvd-to-ipod
- ipod-movies.net
- myipoddownloads.com
Installation & Setup:
The setup is straight-forward and does not require you to reboot the machine after the install.
Copy Quality & Compression:
The image quality good. Even with compression (which is done automatically for you), it's fairly hard to tell when viewing the compressed unless you really set the compression (quality) level really low (low quality, high compression).
Minimum Requirements:
- Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP, or Vista
- 10 GB of free hard drive space
- Pentium-III 450 MHz or faster processor
- At least 256 MB of RAM
- At least 1 DVD-R(W) or DVD+R(W) Drive
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