Initial reviews of Badaboom™ Media Coverter version 1.1 show just how far the application has come. As Ryan Shrout at PC Perspectives states, Badaboom "is a solid upgrade to an application that is only a few months old." In addition to AnandTech's recent review of version 1.0 and 1.1 preview, the following reviews cover version 1.1's enhanced features and champion the new version over other products. Check them out for yourself:

"While we already spent a lot of time recently looking at Elemental's Badaboom application, the user interface, performance and functionality, a new revision of the software is now available that adds quite a bit of what was missing to the table.  Version 1.1 will take the existing Badaboom application and add support for more input file formats, new output profiles, another H.264 profile, higher resolution output and even multi-GPU capability."

– PCPerspective: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=650

“Overall, we're pleased with this performance. You could have a much lower-end CPU and still achieve these results, as it's clear that the GPU is doing nearly all of the work.”

“The Media Center profile allows for encoding up to 25mbit, which combined with the Main Profile and CABAC option delivers beautiful quality.”

“Still, it easily matches or beats the best CPU on the market and is quite a lot faster than more mainstream CPUs.”

“If you don't have a whopping fast CPU, it makes encoding go a lot faster. Even if you do have a super fast quad-core CPU, it's nice to encode video without taxing your CPU, leaving your system responsive enough for other tasks.”

“Still, even with a very expensive and fast CPU, you're not going to match the performance of these GPU encoders at a fraction of the cost.”

– ExtremeTech: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2337062,00.asp

"If the improvements of quality of image brought by MainProfile are more or less obvious according to the scenes to post, this version 1.1 of Badaboom is much more complete all the same than the preceding one. It is hoped that in the future, one can go even further in quality (High Profile?), and in functionalities (dealt with total of the containers to several band its, soutitres etc). In any case here no doubt, one speaks well about encoding on GPU." *

– PC INpact: http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/48014-test-badaboom-11-perfectionne-gpu-encodage.htm?vc=1

*French to English using online web site translator