Thanks very much for the update Doom9. Much appreciated. After following the various links posted on this web site and others and reading the information provided. I must admit I'm looking forward to the release of this product! One, obvious draw back is it's inability to read/copy from encrypted DVD's. That said it would appear that this can be overcome fairly easily. You comment about not being able to split the encode over 2No (or more) CD-R's is also upsetting. So maybe it might suit some people to encode the first and second half of a DVD separately (if that's possible). Not a perfect solution I know. No AR flagging..... What a pisser..... Even WMV9 and the WMV container supports this. I don't know. I guess this means I'll have to bombard yet another company with emails about this feature! And the MP4 container. Well it seems, as an Xcard user, I will be one of just a few people that will be able to view encodes stored in this container, via hardware! As I've mentioned a few times before. I really thought every standalone could support this container already. So when you consider the MP4 market place is very small, it's really quite a bold step for Ahead (Nero) to come up with an encoding application such as this. Let's hope, if it becomes popular, all you guys with standalone players will be offered firmware upgrades. Cheers