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 ...

We live in a world where we want every movie and TV show to be available at our fingertips on every electronic device in our arsenal. Shelves chock-full of movies now seem overly cumbersome, and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

We've certainly discussed Handbrake in the past, but we've neglected to actually show you how to use it to rip a DVD. If you haven't gotten into Handbrake because you've found it a little confusing or ...

Learn the step-by-step tutorial on how to rip DVD movies to iPod and iPhone with HandBrake for free. http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/rip-dvd-to-mp4-with-handbrake ...

Say you have a movie on DVD, but you want to watch it on your phone, tablet, somewhere else. You can “rip” that DVD—or turn it into a movie file on your computer—to play it wherever you want. Here’s ...

[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, ...

[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 ...