Digital Home Thoughts: Video Vault PVP from Diversified Multimedia

Product Category: Software
Manufacturer: Diversified Multimedia
Where to Buy: Diversified Multimedia site
Price: $49.99 USD
System Requirements: Unknown (none listed)

Pros:

• Powerful import and export options;
  
• Supports DVR-MS, which is rare and wonderful;
  
• Many portable video players supported.

Cons:

• Tacky user interface;
• A bit unstable and buggy;
  
• Requires online product activation after you install.

Summary:
Video Vault is a mixed bag: on one hand, it's amazingly powerful, able to import DVDs, raw video from a camcorder, and all sorts of video files (including TV shows from Media Center Edition 2005). On the other hand, it's got a tacky and convoluted interface badly in need of a polish, options that aren't obvious enough, and a few ugly and frustrating bugs. Top it off with online product activation, and you have an application that I have a hard time reccomending without some reservations.

Read on for the full review!