I have a huge library of DVDs that I'd like to back up and so I jumped at the chance to review the WinX DVD Ripper Platinum software when it was offered to me. After installing WinX DVD Ripper, I grabbed a DVD off my shelf and put it in my computer.

A message popped up saying this DVD had the new encryption protection. I had grabbed the new Star Trek movie. The www.WinXDVD.com website had easy to follow instructions on how to back up a DVD with this new encryption protection. I had not been aware of any new encryption so I tried to back up the DVD with an older back up program that I had used before. Like WinX DVD had predicted, the older software didn't know how to handle backing up the Star Trek DVD.

The WinX DVD Ripper Platinum program offers many choices of back up formats. I was very pleased to see that I only had to make one selection to back up a DVD. I don't understand all those settings that are available. Luckily, WinX DVD defaults the settings depending on your destination, but lets those at the expert level tweak the settings to suit their needs. I started going through all of my DVDs and backing them up to an external hard drive that is easily portable. For my favorite movies, I also used WinX DVD Ripper to back them up into a format suitable for the iPod. Again I only had to select the “to iPod” tab and let the program do the rest.