[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, ...

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 ...

Click to viewCommercial DVDs are far too expensive to let scratches turn your video into a glorified coaster, but most people still don't back up their DVD collection. Once upon a time, the four 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 ...

DVD Decrypter can convert DVD videos into Audio Video Interleave files with help from another converter program. The DVD improved home video picture quality standards, but it still requires a physical ...

Windows/OS X: When Handbrake is just a little too complicated for your less tech-savvy friends and family, WinX and MacX DVD Ripper make ripping DVDs dead simple—and they're both free for the rest of ...

Addicted to movies? You can watch video on your tablet, smartphone, or portable media player, of course–but since none of those gadgets have optical drives, you can’t put any of your DVDs into them.

How to Rip DVDs and Play Them on Your Computer Too many DVDs lying around? Need a way to turn them digital? You can turn them into digital files with the right software. These three programs will get ...

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 ...

Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...

[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 ...