If you’re a part of the generation that has witnessed the digital transformation and seen tech evolve into its current state, you’re probably familiar with CDs and DVDs. Or perhaps you’re even holding ...

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 ...

You spent years collecting your favorite movies on DVD, and now what? If you’re like most Americans, those bulky boxes of discs are either sitting in a box in the closet or gathering dust on a shelf.

There are lots of advantages to backing up your DVD library. It gives you a backup if discs are lost or damaged, and lets you play your DVDs digitally on all of your tech gadgets. That means easy ...

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 ...

As digital superiority is becoming a foregone conclusion, it's honestly rather embarrassing that we so stubbornly hold on to something so impractical, and by something, I mean physical discs. I love ...

As the top-ranked DVD Ripper, 4Videosoft's DVD Ripper Platinum has the ability to rip DVD discs, DVD folders and IFO files to any popular video formats – even HD video – easily. For example, it can ...

If you need to quickly rip content from a DVD and convert it to MP4, there's an app for that. Here's what you should know. You probably haven't thought about DVDs in ...

Thanks to 3TB drives being pretty cheap this week, I now have an abundance of storage. I'd like to rip my DVD and blu-ray collection, but could use some guidance. I would love to know this too. I ...

MakeMKV ($50, 30-day free trial) has a simple little name, and there’s no big trick to transcoding a video from one container format to another. If that were all this utility did, it would be ...

If you use VirtualDubMod you can skip converting the VOBs to AVIs, and open the VOBs directly. Then you can select and convert only the segments you want to AVI. But you still have to do the rip since ...

[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 ...