It is unable to work with the very latest releases, i.e. The Shape of Water, there was something in their description about updating to handle the latest titles, but that may not be done very regularly. Having success with titles released last year. No watermarks on the rip that I could see.

It moved it's thermometer, finished in 100% of the time it would have taken to watch the movie, but only made a copy of the existing disc files under \user\me\appdata\ and did not produce the selected output movie file.

Oh well, maybe Dimo's next offering will excite me.
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Well, the copy (mp4) looks great, but it will only record/convert/copy just under 30 min, on any BD I use. Yes, I registered it correctly for those who would ask. Limited professional copy I guess.

Since the https://www.mediadimo.com/easter-giveaway does NOT ask for our email, but only tries to tease us to buy stuff, what's the problem with including the registration key in the GOTD download for a one-stop GOTD experience?
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The struggles that others share indicate that GOTD could exert some criteria restrictions before passing on any vendor's offerings, such as:

-- they must live up to promises, including reinstating working versions of software that becomes dysfunctional due to premature registration expiration averse to promises,

-- they must allow GOTD users to confirm registration, in this case, waiting until hours after initial testing to convert a disc as promised only to have a watermarked video that is no better than self-discovery of a web trial version is an abuse of the GOTD platform and loyal GOTD participants.

Such a "GOTD Software Gold Standard" would be good VENDORS as well as good for loyal GOTD participants, and, especially good for the quality and longevity of GOTD's renowned reputation.

What say?
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--Program Installed ok, but could not even get this program downloader to work on any online videos tried like youtube and others.Always, just say: Error-No reason or help given, even most free converter programs can do this with ease. This program needs a lot of improvements.
**This program is just too limited in features and options, Nothing special in the features, compared to similar programs like this.
This Program really needs more custom improvements and enhancement options & features to make worthwhile. Cheers!

The Good:
Installed fine on win7-64 bit, no issues with getting the link or the reg code, no problems inserting the reg code.
It does have a reasonable interface, multiple output options handles hevc265.
Used a 60 second 720p source clip for conversion testing, took my 9 meg 264 and turned it into a 65 meg 265 file. (Not impressed) went in to customize and they only support fixed bitrate conversions. Not very efficient. The resulting quality was good but when your output is 7x larger there should be little perceptive quality loss.
The package has no editing capacity at all, but it does have an edit button which apparently supports multiple profe$$ional editing packages.

The poor:
It did convert to a TS pretty fast, but that's all it did, no attempt to create a blue ray structure, convert to iso was simply the source file in an iso.

The bad:
I tried 3 youtube urls all failed, without a useful error message.

I did not try the video sharing portion of the package so I cannot comment on its usability in that function.

John

I used the email download method via 3 browsers. Two browsers had zero extensions. I never got the activation code. 3/25/2018.

Dimo offers different products 'under the same hood', so you'll always get the Video Downloader and Media Server as a bonus on board, which is helpful, i guess.

Since i have no Blu-ray laying around somewhere, i can't test this very feature, sadly but all the other things worked fine. Also downloaded a Youtube video and converted it without any watermark being present in the final video, in contrary to what's been posted under comment #2.

PDF manual, comparison chart and all other information can be found here: https://www.mediadimo.com/bdmate/guide

Only question that remains is if the activation will hold or if it will get blacklisted in a few weeks. The program seems to be registered fine but there is still a option in the menu to register afterwards, which also was the case for MXF Converter 4.0 from Februrary this year here on GOTD. A registered program shouldn't show anymore to register it once it's done, it's only very confusing for the end user.

Very nice app with a lot of features yet the UI is straightforward and makes it easy to use. Decent on screen help let's you get most things done with a few clicks. Based on the nice implementation I'm going to look at getting some of their own apps.

Registration was a bit odd due to the standard page with a requirement to click on the Get It Now button, but it worked fine.

I paid for this as it's only $10 but I don't think I will be using it much as it has taken over 1.15 hours to convert 50% of a 4 gb blue-ray movie from an I5 hp machine which I consider to be quite fast. This was copied from Blu-Ray dvd to HD first, it also runs at 100% cpu
Not very impressed with this program at all.
@Ritchi Freudenkinder TK answer is the correct answer to my comment.

I gave it a try to see if Blu-ray copy worked -- it did not.

I was curious since Blu-ray software is a bit rare today -- not only is it more a niche market [compared to the popularity of DVDs at their peak], but the companies that provide Blu-ray DRM are very willing to take the matter to the courts. Fentao [DVDFab] was forced out of the US, including the use of US payment companies/services, while SlySoft sold their biz & closed their doors.

SO I monitored the install in a VM [more on that later] & gave it a try with a newly released disc, Jumanji. Didn't work, so I booted into 10, fired up Shadow Defender [so no permanent changes] installed BDmate, & tried again -- wouldn't work there either. In both cases it coped the folder structure, & ~ 300 MB of files, but no video whatsoever. Now it may work on older discs, & Dimo may provide an update to handle whatever DRM is present on that Jumanji disc, but assuming Dimo does update the software for new DRM, you will have to buy the app to get updates.

That said, the software itself is not too intrusive, with files in the program's folder, under [UserName] & [UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\, & under ProgramData. It also adds a copy of Microsoft's C/C++ runtimes, which are added to the WIndows\ System32 folder rather than the perhaps more standard Windows\ WinSxS. And it does change one of the Windows Media Player settings in the registry.

The app itself is the more-or-less standard ffmpeg-based converter, with a downloader attached. While the downloads appear the same, I used the setup app from the Dimo site rather than the one sent by GOTD. Running the app unactivated I got a nag screen when it started -- after activation I did not.

Worked very well for me. These usually go for around $50.00. On this site they say it is $59.95. On their website that amount is crossed off and says $39.95. Seems companies are always trying to inflate the true cost of their product on this site, perhaps to make people think they're getting a better bargain than they really are. Can't complain with 'free' though.

Ripping to a m2ts was rather quick, but the file size was 36G. Wanting to rip to a mp4 hevc noticed the size was 8.5G, so I used a different video converter (Aimersoft) to convert the m2ts file to a size of 2.3G.

Definitely a keeper, though does not support hardware acceleration, but it's FREE!

Strange that after you register it there is no indication that it's registered.

Did we ever figure out a way to see if the pasted registration worked? I only see a blank after pasting and then looking at it again

Most excellent. The pop up window never appeared for me (adblocker, AV pop up blocker ??) but the link worked just fine. Thanks peeps !!

So is this software going to be like the rest of DImo's "giveaways" that in 2 months it says the license has been banned?

This is rather absurd. How can there be a 24hr Giveaway time limit when their website states April 30 as the limit. Why is there no way to confirm that the product has, in fact, been registered?

How can one tell if the registration worked? Clicking upper right-hand box does not in any way indicate registered copy, just provides box to enter code.

the link show error while click

Downloaded, installed and registered with no problems using chrome on win 10

Link not working for free license, only trial or buy??

very nice software and most easy to install. Best Easter present. Thank you so much to DIMO and GOTD.

I just have one question: after registration I still can find in the pull down of the menu (right upper corner) 'Register' where I can register again. Does this mean it is still not registered?

Linky not working for free licence. Watcha gotta doo ?