[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 ...

Who is still buying DVDs? Surely collectors are. A hard copy is always tempting for collectors. Also, old-fashioned DVD serves you well when movies are hard to find or even not available online on ...

Windows/Mac: The free, open source DVD ripping application HandBrake has released an update (0.9.0) promising a better interface, improved picture quality, faster ripping and improved stability.

So we have hundreds of DVDs, Terabytes worth of external storage (well, 2TB) and a cunning plan to rip my wife's 100 TV DVDs to iTunes.<BR><BR>The problem is that the quality of the DVD rips just aren ...

Reader Steven Pollock seeks a digital copy of a movie he recently purchased. He writes: I read Macworld’s story about how to rip DVDs with HandBrake and I’m having a problem. I’d like to rip a DVD ...

Ripping digital copies of your DVDs so you can take them on the road, play them on any device you want, or drop them on your home theater PC has never been easier. There are a number of great free and ...

Learn the step-by-step tutorial on how to rip DVD movies to iPod and iPhone with HandBrake for free. http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/rip-dvd-to-mp4-with-handbrake ...

Occasionally I've had trouble with Handbrake when ripping directly from the DVD. I use MacTheRipper to get the DVD to the hard drive and then use Handbrake on the VIDEO_TS folder. Much more consistent ...

It's been over a year since the amazing free DVD ripping software (also known as a "video transcoder"), HandBrake, has been updated. Life is good, and Handbrake 0.9.5 has now been released. There are ...

In this column two weeks ago I mentioned that a friend on a mail list had asked, “What do people use to rip a DVD to their hard drive so they can, for example, watch it on a laptop or a tablet? This ...

[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, ...