Rating: 
Summary: Best in its class!
Review: Those that have given Instant Copy poor reviews seem to have focused on the fact that if the DVD is "copyrighted", a third-party DVD decrypter must first be used to transfer the DVD to a hard-disk. It shouldn't stretch the imagination to assume that this is none for legal reasons. You do also need a DVD writer.It is also true that there are (mostly freeware) software out there that can perform similar functions to Instant Copy. However, there is no "free" software as easy to use as I.C. and acts as a single, unified package. One place where Instant Copy is in a class by itself is in the backup of compilation DVD's (e.g., The Sopranos Season X). Instant Copy leads the way in it's ability to 1) maintain the original menu systems and related extra content, and 2) compress this content onto one consumer-grade DVD. Users should note that Instant Copy, like all similar products, offers no free lunch. Most commerical DVD's hold about twice the data that consumer-grade recordable DVD's hold. Compression is required to squeeze the original data down to fit -- the more you compress, the more data (i.e. picture quality) is lost. Another nice feature of Instant Copy is that it does allow the user to specify the size of the final, compressed data. This is expecially useful if the DVD blanks you are recording on tend to have a problem writing data at the extreme outer edge of the DVD. If the potential buyer is looking for an EXACT backup of their DVD, then a product like DVDXCOPY may be a better choice. However, you will then always be required to use two blank single-sided DVDs or one blank double-sided DVD to do a 1:1 copy of most commercial DVDs.
Rating:
Summary: Best in its class!
Review: Those that have given Instant Copy poor reviews seem to have focused on the fact that if the DVD is "copyrighted", a third-party DVD decrypter must first be used to transfer the DVD to a hard-disk. It shouldn't stretch the imagination to assume that this is none for legal reasons. You do also need a DVD writer. It is also true that there are (mostly freeware) software out there that can perform similar functions to Instant Copy. However, there is no "free" software as easy to use as I.C. and acts as a single, unified package. One place where Instant Copy is in a class by itself is in the backup of compilation DVD's (e.g., The Sopranos Season X). Instant Copy leads the way in it's ability to 1) maintain the original menu systems and related extra content, and 2) compress this content onto one consumer-grade DVD. Users should note that Instant Copy, like all similar products, offers no free lunch. Most commerical DVD's hold about twice the data that consumer-grade recordable DVD's hold. Compression is required to squeeze the original data down to fit -- the more you compress, the more data (i.e. picture quality) is lost. Another nice feature of Instant Copy is that it does allow the user to specify the size of the final, compressed data. This is expecially useful if the DVD blanks you are recording on tend to have a problem writing data at the extreme outer edge of the DVD. If the potential buyer is looking for an EXACT backup of their DVD, then a product like DVDXCOPY may be a better choice. However, you will then always be required to use two blank single-sided DVDs or one blank double-sided DVD to do a 1:1 copy of most commercial DVDs.
Rating: 
Summary: Check out Pinnacle first
Review: Tried to burn DVDs after ripping with DVD Encryper. All I get is "List out of bounds" error message. Pinnacle offers no phone or email support. Check out their "Forum", you wont belive the problems people have with this application. I believe 5 stars rating are from relatives of Pinnacle!
Rating:
Summary: Junk Junk Junk
Review: ver 7.0
No, this will not copy copyrighted DVDs. Pinnacle is well knowen for their infearior software. After reasearching this software, it seems to be a rework of a German developers software (I think its called Vob copy) Pinnacle was cheaper than the german ware, so I bought Pinnacle to own a disk and not download of the net. This is very buggy and hit and miss. It does not reconize my external Sony DVD burner half the time. And must reboot the computer a few times. This will happen after succesfull burning a DVD, I will have to reboot. I download the latest list of DVD burners and this did not help the problem.
Next I download the newest and greatest version 8. Now I am not having a hit or miss problem, It is just miss. Does not work at all.
One thing everyone can count on is Pinnacle dependablity.
They have releast another undependable buggy product.
What makes me mad is, I knew better than to buy it.
Rating:
Summary: Copy protected? Figure it out!
Review: Yes, it's true that Instant Copy won't copy DVDs, but there's plenty of shareware out there that will rip the image for you on your hard drive (and it doesn't take THAT much space: 9 GB at the absolute very most, and if you don't have that much room to spare, it's time to upgrade, guys!). But where Instant Copy really excels is in taking a double-sided DVD and compressing it to the point where you can get TONS of information all on one DVD+R. So, once you've made a disc image (figure it out, computer illiterates!), Instant Copy will give you all the bells and whistles of a dual-layer DVD on one handy disc (yes, with slight quality loss, but it's hard to tell, honestly). No, it's not a catch-all product, but few things ever are. For the compression feature alone, this product rates five stars (albeit only with a rebate! It's pretty pricey otherwise). For the rest of "how to copy a DVD"....it's quite easy. I guess those "one star review" types are too lazy to press two buttons instead of just one.
Rating:
Summary: Instant Copy 7 allows backups of DVDs you own.
Review: You need a dvd burner first off. Put in a DVD (that you own) and rip it to your hd. Once that's done allow it to transcode the video (takes about 2 hours on fast computers for 2 hour movie). Then it'll burn and voila. For tips and tricks check out doom9 dot org forums and you'll be well on your wake to making DVD backups.
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