About Tools4Movies
Tools4Movies was founded in late 2003. While initially developed as a basic video conversion utility, in the middle of 2004, the first version of DVD Catalyst was released under the name of mMedia.

mMedia consisted of 2 separate applications called mDVD and mVideo. mVideo was the continuation of an in-home build video conversion utility, and mDVD was essentially a modified version to enable DVD support.

After a few months of continuous development, mMedia was replaced with PocketDVD 1.0, which initially hold onto the 2 seperate applications, but with later versions, both were merged into a single application to make better use of the powerful batching capabilities that the applications offered. The first name change, from mMedia to PocketDVD was decided on due for marketing reasons.

After a few successfull version-upgrades, and PocketDVD 2.0 winning the Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine Awards, a new name change was needed because we were receiving too many support requests for applications with a similar name. While initially beneficial (we do answer all emails within a very reasonable response time, even if it was not for our own application) we found it better to have a more distinctive look and name to avoid confusion. As we at DVD Catalyst are cat-persons, we decided to use distincitve cat-eyes in the graphical design, and of course DVD CATalyst as a name.

What happened to the DVD Catalyst website?

As you might have already noticed, our main website, www.dvdcatalyst.com, is no longer in our possession. In October 2008, the Registrar company, 1&1 Internet, which was used for the website registration stole the website. The domain was not expired, and it had a valid credit card hooked to the account for auto-renewal, but with DVD Catalyst winning the Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine 2008 Software Awards, our guess is that they figured it would be nice to use it for their own. We are not the only one. More details can be found here

Currently, there is a parking (advertising) web-page from SEDO located on our domain, a company that is directly connected with 1&1 Internet. The domain is for sale, and the company, Dom Collect, is also directly connected to 1&1 Internet.

Please learn from our mistake, and check Google for any information in regards of a company you are planning to use. Never go for pricing alone, and never use 1on1 Inc or its sister companies.

The update process for DVD Catalyst 3 (Click on the cat-eyes) is not affected by this in any way.

Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this might cause.