ImgBurn Review - The Best Free CD & DVD Burning Program

ImgBurn is a freeware designed to burning CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray discs from file type supported via DirectShow / ACM, VIDEO_TS folder, HVDVD_TS folder and BDAV/BDMV folder with ease.

Besides, it can also write a lot of DVD and CD images like BIN, CUE, GI, IMG, etc. to CD/DVD writer.

This free DVD burning software can work in Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 2008 (including all the 64-bit versions).

The interface of ImgBurn is as the below picture shows.

Key features of Imgburn

1. Support lots of formats, including BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG, PDI, etc.

2. Able to burn video DVD, HD DVD video discs and Blu-ray video discs.

3. Full unicode folder/file name support.

4. Support all the Microsoft Windows platforms: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and Windows 7(including all the 64-bit versions). Wine is also supported.

5. Save time by providing image queue for burning multiple images.

6. Small size: under 1.8MB for all installed features.

ImgBurn is a free optical disc authoring software based on the optical burning engine of created DVD Decrypter because they were created by the same person, Lightning UK. The latest version of ImgBurn is 2.5.6.0, released on 4th October, 2011.

To the general public, ImgBurn can be the best choice for DVD burning. However, ImgBurn cannot create image files from encrypted CDs/DVDs.

If you get some encrypted DVDs and want to copy and back up the DVD copy since DVDs can be easily damaged or get lost. You can turn to other DVD burning and backup software, such as Aimersoft DVD Copy, which can help you copy and backup all DVD movies to DVD disc in 1:1 ratio, or save DVD movies to hard drive as DVD Folder or ISO image file. You can also backup and copy commercial DVDs with CSS, RC and RCE protection.

If you get some encrypted DVDs and want to back up the DVD in video formats so as to play them on your portable devices, you can use Aimersoft DVD Ripper to rip the protected DVDs to any video format like MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, M4V, etc. as you like.