What burning software do you recommend?

[LocutusofBorg]

Well, I will try to answer as good as it gets.

1) yes, we're already working on it.

2) yes, there is new plugin maybe even in next DT Pro which
we release soon. It interconnects DT Pro with Astroburn

What concerns about the copy-protection burn capabilities,
I guess we have different opinions here. I see no demand for
such feature. Simply because alot of such protections cant
be copied anymore - especially to DVD. And because its also
anyway useless. Why burn 1:1 when you can burn just image-
file and mount from DVD? (Although this is imho also not really
"ideal" as this means again loudness, annoyance from optical
media, far lower speed etc etc)

We might implement later RMPS-feature. If we develop even
"real" 1:1 copy is questionable - atm. I see no good reason
for it. For backup-purposes, Astroburn exactly fit your needs
- even exceeds them, as it offers here also encryption and
compression that you can hardly use in a 1:1 copy.
And backup-purposes and more convenient usage is what we
work on, thats what DT Pro stands for. Just use the image-
files "as is" and burn the files directly to disk.

[Reef]

Burning games these days would be quite expensive too, as almost all new games are over 4 GB and need to be burned on expensive dual layer media.
I prefer using a large harddisk to store all my images. If I would burn them all it would cost me a lot more than the price I paid for the harddisk. External HD's are becoming very popular lately, because they're actually a fast, cheap and reliable way to store large amounts of data. I've seen 500 GB external drives (USB2) in stores for as little as 100. You can store a lot of game images on 500 GB

[PegHorse]

External HD its nice but its not safe. If tomorrow your disc fail, have mechanical problem and can't do nothing to recover it, imagine the numbers of Releases, games etc... u would lost ?
I'm buying games and very often because i or my family use them too much often, Original disc fall down and its sometimes hard to get the Guarantee from the Author. So, we have to buy a new copy which i find it Unfair.
For this reason i wanna have a full backup copy of theses games to use them to preserve the Original Disc in case my duplicatas would failed. Of course i also appreciate mounting the file from an External HD, but look, in 2 years ago my 500 Gb hard drive had a default which didn't shown instantly but a few months laters, i lost all copies and couldn't do anything to recover Datas...
So having an External HD can just help but its not safe.
So yes, i'm burning to DVD and presentely i burn the image file as u said on a disc, but actually Deamon Tools is blacklisted from Securom etc... so even if i try to mount the image it doesn't work, not anymore excepted for my older games like Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, which are working great, i put all images i made on a Single DVD which is Great, it working awesome on my Players from every of my computers. So this is good for Lan Games. Every computers doens't have External HD, only mine does but not the house its too much expensive, so you see, having copy on disc is very important for me at least.

[Terramex]

...but actually Deamon Tools is blacklisted from Securom etc... so even if i try to mount the image it doesn't work...

Yesterday new version of DT lite was released. There should be no blacklisting issues anymore with Securom.
Of course you still have to use YASU to cloak drive(s).
But in times of Blacklisting RMPS is a nice alternative.

[PegHorse]

Yesterday new version of DT lite was released. There should be no blacklisting issues anymore with Securom.
Of course you still have to use YASU to cloak drive(s).
But in times of Blacklisting RMPS is a nice alternative.

Really ? Thanks for the info i'll give it a try.
But i'm Pro Customer, so if the lite has been released first, the Pro should come soon.

[bismax]

The Pro was released before. Give it a try.

[Terramex]

@PegHorse
Either it wasn't there or i just didn't notice your customer tag