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If you’re a part of the generation that has witnessed the digital transformation and seen tech evolve into its current state, you’re probably familiar with CDs and DVDs. Or perhaps you’re even holding ...

March 25, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Click to viewCommercial DVDs are far too expensive to let scratches turn your video into a glorified coaster, but ...

The obsolete dinosaur of proprietary media players, RealNetworks, introduces a new DVD-copying tool today called RealDVD. The upshot: For $30, RealDVD can make simple, DRMed backups of an entire ...

[Andy] had a fairly large problem on his hands. For the last 15 years, he’s been collecting DVDs, and since he began, he’s run out of space on his shelves for these miraculous plastic discs.

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.

In our experiments, we found we could rip a 2.5 hour DVD with 385 frames per second in about 8½ minutes from start to finish, resulting in a single 1.24GB video file that plays on PC, mobile devices, ...

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 ...

DVDs may seem like a thing of the past as streaming options like Netflix and Apple TV+ continue to gain popularity, but there’s no reason those shiny discs need to sit around collecting dust. Discover ...

Growth in streaming media is revolutionizing the consumption of video, but it doesn’t accommodate all the needs of collectors of commercial DVDs or of owners of personal video stored on discs. Not all ...

WonderFox DVD Ripper Speedy is a handy software that lets you make a copy of a DVD quickly. By backing up a DVD, you can enjoy direct DVD movie playback in high quality on your Windows PC, avoiding ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...