Rip Blu-ray Guide

What is the file size of a Blu-ray rip?

One common complaint I hear about storing movies on a a hard drive is the large size of the HD movie files.  Here are two rules of thumb regarding file size: ISO files are exact replications of the Blu-ray disc.  These files run about 30-40 GB. If you rip out the trailers, the menus, and […]

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Rip Blu-ray | 3 Essential Tools

Since this site is called RipBlurayGuide.com, it makes sense to talk about how to rip blu-ray movies, right? I rip my movies to a hard drive so I can convert them to MKVs.  This provides me flexibility to watch my movies without a Blu-ray player software. This article only focuses on the process of ripping […]

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Cheapest way to stream ripped Blu-rays to an HDTV

Now that you have ripped your Blu-ray movies to a hard drive, hopefully as MKV files, you might be wondering how am I going to watch this on a TV?  There are several options for streaming movies to an HDTV, with the cheapest being the Roku XD and the AppleTV.  The problem though is finding […]

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MakeMKV | Convert Blu-ray to MKV Easily

MakeMKV is a free program that converts your Blu-ray movies to MKV files, which can be played on most computers with the proper codecs installed. MakeMKV’s main selling point is that it is easy and makes fairly good conversions.  The one drawback I see in MakeMKV is that you can’t use lossless audio codecs like […]

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