Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Commercial DVD titles are often encrypted, which prevents you from either copying them to your hard drive, or ...

DVDs, no matter how carefully they’re stored, are deteriorating. Very quickly. Even the optical drive needed to watch DVDs is now obsolete on Macs. But once the DVDs are converted into digital files ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back up your DVDs (including commercial movies) and convert them to various mobile formats with this utility. Whether it’s worth the extra cost to have both functions in one easy-to-use program is up ...

[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 ...

If you look around, there are literally dozens of DVD copyprograms or rippers advertised. Most won’t back up copy protectedDVDs–Pavtube DVD Ripper does. Before I go any further, let me saythat while ...

Many of us do not want to throw our previous DVD away. However, it easily gets scratched, broken. To protect my collection, I had written "Digitize DVD Collection" into the to-do-list. My discs, not ...

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 ...

You pay good money for your DVDs, but they're hardly the only format you need these days. These five ripping tools ensure you can back them up, keep them on your media server, and load them on your ...