[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 ...

Reader Derrick Crandall has one chunk of media that he’d like to turn into more. He writes: I have a concert recording on a Blu-ray disc. I’d like to use my Mac to extract the audio from it so I can ...

OK, so it will technically rip them, but at around 0.5x, which is unacceptable. I'm not really sure what information would be relevant to helping me with this issue, but I'll post a bunch of info here ...

With the recent news article about DVD/Bluray sales down. Many of the comments were people talking about having their own media collection. I have a decent collection myself but the last time I made ...

Media Servers are all the rage lately. While streaming services like Netflix and Hulu give you easy access to TV and movies at home or on the go, they don’t have Blu-ray quality video and audio.

CNET reviews the LG BD590, finding that it deftly handles Blu-ray playback, CD ripping, and streaming media services like Netflix from a single box, but you'll have to pay for that simplicity. Matthew ...

Included digital copies are still the exception rather than the norm in the Blu-ray world. Lame. You’d like to rip those discs for playback elsewhere, right? But there is something you should know ...