Why You Should Rip Blu-rays

Thu, Sep 3, 2009

Rip Blu-ray

There are several reasons why you might want to rip Blu-rays.  Here are my reasons:

  1. There main one is that you want to watch your movies on a computer.  Legally playing your blu-rays on a computer is a big pain.  You have to jump through a ton of hoops.  Ripping out the content protection is the first step in being able to actually watch YOUR OWN MOVIES.
  2. Protect your movies from kids.
  3. Avoid using the awful blu-ray software players like Cyberlink’s PowerDVD.  If you rip your movies, you can convert them to MKVs or another format.  There are tons of free players out there that support MKVs.  Why pay $80 for PowerDVD?

If you notice, I did not mention burning blu-ray movies.   In my opinion, writeable blu-ray discs are too expensive and not worth burning.

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