Streaming is convenient, but Blu-ray provides the best quality video and audio you can get in your home theater. The only problem is you have to get off the couch to switch discs. That feels so 2006, ...

CDs aren’t exactly cutting-edge in 2025. Since the peak years around the turn of the millennium, sales have plummeted because streaming services like Spotify have taken over. But there are still times ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...