DVD43 and AnyDVD

By R. Jerome Harris

I will attempt to explain and straighten out several questions concerning DVD43 and AnyDVD as they relate to PCs running Vista 64-Bit and Windows 7 64-Bit.

First off, if you are running DVD Copy software on these platforms such as 1Click DVD Copy and 1Click DVD Copy Pro, you cannot use DVD43. Why? Because DVD43 is not Vista 64-Bit or Windows 7 64-Bit compatible.

If, on the other hand, you are running Windows XP or lower, you can use DVD43 with these products. This is Microsoft's doing.  Perhaps they are in bed with the Motion Picture Industry and DVD movie manufacturers.

What can you do? Well, there is not doubt in this writers mind that 1Click DVD Copy 5 and 1Click DVD Copy Pro are superior products. They are simply workhorses that do exactly what they were created to do: Copy DVD movies without flaws. It's like a question a question a sports reporter asked the former heavy weight boxing champion Leon Spinks. He asked Leon, "What is your job in the ring?" Leon's response was, "I knock M$!@8&F Out !" This was a straight forward answer. 1Click DVD Copy is to the point: It copies DVD movies and does it very well.

Since DVD43 can not be used on the Vista 64 and Windows 7 64-Bit platforms, the answer now is to run AnyDVD instead of DVD43. DVD43 was free and still is. AnyDVD, works just like DVD43 (in the background) and automatically removes the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it is inserted into the drive.

You can download a trial version of AnyDVD HERE.

So, to summarize: If you have a new PC running 64-bit Vista or 64-Bit Windows 7, you will not be able to use most DVD copy software unless you install AnyDVD.

Most new computers are 32-Bit so you will be OK using DVD43.

I personally believe that 64-Bit operating systems are not ready for the real world yet. The reason is that there are simply too many existing great programs that will not run on a 64-Bit platform. If you upgrade from an existing 32-Bit platform to a 64-Bit platform, many of your old programs will no longer work. Additionally, software manufacturers are lagging in creating 64-Bit software programs.

Stick with 32-bit operating systems until 64-Bit software programs catch up to the 64-Bit PCs they are supposed to run on.

Just my two cents.