Are you still stuck in the age of burning content to discs? That’s fine because you’re not alone, but your numbers are dwindling with ease passing year. Now, if you are interested in creating AVCHD ...

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

The entertainment industry has spent an untold amount of money creating and implementing copyright protection for its content. Because copy protection prevents casual copying to other media, such as a ...

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 ...

Find a Blu-ray Drive To rip those movies to your PC, you'll need an optical drive that can read Blu-ray discs; a DVD drive isn't enough. Since most laptops don't come with disk drives anymore, you can ...

One of Steve Jobs’s most memorable comments may be the way he referred to Blu-ray as “ a bag of hurt” back in 2008 during a Q&A with members of the press: “I don’t mean from a consumer point of ...

Blu-Ray may be majestic, but it also has more copy protection than any other format around, and playing it on your computer can be difficult to impossible. Here’s how to rip those movies for glorious ...

Are you a “cord cutter”? One of the millions of people now ditching the old ways of home entertainment – broadcast TV and physical media – in favour of downloads and streaming services? Even if you ...