On Wednesday, a key copyright trial began in San Jose, as Kaleidescape Systems and the DVD Content Control Association went to court in a case expected to test the concept of "fair use". Kaleidescape ...

We explain how you can copy a DVD to your Mac for watching on iPad or Apple TV, even if it won’t play! When clearing out the garage recently we stumbled upon an old DVD. Since we no longer have a DVD ...

Click to viewWindows only: Rip and back up any DVD to your hard drive with DVD Rip, a freeware Windows application that automates the entire DVD-to-hard-drive backup process. All you need to do is ...

WinX DVD Ripper doesn’t need external libraries such as libdvdcss to rip copy-protected DVDs. But the best part is, WinX is the only DVD ripper to reach level-3 hardware acceleration. This allows your ...

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to ...

What is the best format to rip DVD? There is no single answer to this question. If you want to convert DVD for playback on a mobile device, MP4 is a good choice. If you want to create a 1:1 copy to ...

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Normally priced at $51.95, this DVD-copying and -ripping suite is available free of charge--but only for today. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog ...

[This is a guest post by Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies at Middlebury College. Jason blogs at Just TV.] [This is a guest post by Jason Mittell, ...

DVD ripping is the process of extracting entire or selected contents from a DVD onto another storage drive. It’s a vital process, especially if you use DVD rippers to backup or shift your data from ...