Blu-ray Ripper Tools

Blu-ray has obviously won many people’s hearts with its high quality as the best video format so far. But due to the economic downturn, we’d better think twice before open our wallets to this new format. Here are some FAQs to be considered if you want to buy Blu-ray related products or just want to know more about it.

Q1: Why was it entitled as Blu-ray?

A: Because Blu-ray Disc players and PC drives, as well as Sony’s PlayStation 3, use a blue laser beam to read data from discs, rather than the older red lasers used for DVDs. A blue laser can be focused more tightly, so disc makers can pack more data on a disc the same size as a DVD. Blu-ray Discs can hold up to 50 gigabytes, compared to a DVD, which holds less than 10 GB. That added capacity can hold video up to six times the resolution of DVD, plus more bonus features and improved surround soundtracks.

Q2: What’s the difference between Blu-ray and DVD?

A: Side-by-side, most people can easily see Blu-ray’s improvement in picture quality. The video resolution, called “1080p” because it constantly (or progressively, hence the p) redraws 1,080 lines across the screen (each line containing 1,920 pixels), surpasses the best HDTV broadcast or cable signals. “Once you start seeing high-definition (video) on a 1080p monitor, DVD cannot compare,” says Peter Bracke, editor of HighDefDigest.com. “Even my mom is impressed with it.”

And filmmakers are doing their bit as well to make Blu-ray stand out. “We spent more time on (the Blu-ray image) than on the theatrical release, making sure every single color and shade is there for a reason,” says Hellboy II: The Golden Army director Guillermo Del Toro. “The movie has never looked and sounded better.” Read more…

iToolSoft has upgraded its Blu-ray Ripper and Blu-ray Ripper for Mac to V3.1.1! With the new version, you can easily decrypt Blu-rays with AACS (MKBv17) protection, and you can get chapter markers of the Blu-rays displayed in the program, and you can even make a full copy of your Blu-ray with original info and configuration to hard drive or PC. What’ more, the new version of Blu-ray ripper supports to converting Blu-ray to many portable devices including iPod, iPhone, iRiver, Blackberry, PSP, PS3 etc. for enjoyment.

What’s new? Read more…

Digital encoded audio & video information is stored on disks in form of pits. These pits are spiral grooves. The pits on the DVD disk have to be more closely packed and smaller in size to store more information. The reading laser has to be more precise in order to read data from the smaller pits. DVD media uses red-laser while blue-laser is used in the new Blu-ray media disc format. This is how the Blu-ray got its name because of the blue laser. As the coming into being of Blu-ray, many famous electronics manufacturers have produced their own Blu-ray players, and as the coming into being of Blu-ray players, many software developers have developed their own Blu-ray rippers for those guys who don’t have a Blu-ray ripper or Blu-ray converter but want to enjoy the high quality of Blu-ray.

Red laser has 650 nanometers wavelength. On the other hand the wavelength of blue laser is much shorter which 405 nanometers is. Smaller sized laser beam can focus more accurately and precisely.

The blue laser has the ability to read to read data from the pits that have size of 0.15 µm (microns). One micron is equivalent to 10-6 meters. The pits on the DVD disk are twice as bigger than that of the pits on Blu-ray media disc. Read more…

Wanna play “World of Warcraft” through any browser on the go, even on your iPad? It sounds impossible, right? Not anymore. You needn’t make any conversion and complicated operation. Well, a new service from the folks at Gaikai.com aims to make that possible. The company’s CEO, video game industry veteran David Perry, claims to have seen such technology in action and posted a photo as evidence. If Gaikai does he what he claims, PC gamers may have wonderful world of travel gaming waiting in the not so distant future.

“‘World of Warcraft’ is possible on iPad,” Perry wrote on Twitter yesterday. He posted a shot of this spectacle on DPerry.com and added an extended tease, expressing his excitement.

“Was walking through the office, saw this, thought you’d like to see,” he noted. “Soon I’ll be able to play ‘WOW’ with my Cornflakes!”

He and his company hope the service will make other games streamable as well. Read more…

Apple, internationally famous for its excellent products especially iPod, iPhone and iPad, is really in a dilemma whether to focus its attention on PC or portable devices like the iPod series and iPhone. Being innovative and quality-oriented, Apple has yet been criticized of not supporting Blu-ray disc format and Flash.

Apple recently announced details of its world-wide developers’ conference and observers noticed that training sessions and labs are focused around iPhone OS, Open ES, HTML5 and other similar technologies, which means that the WWDC will be heavy on iPhone and iPad, but light on Macintosh.
For many years Apple has been losing market share until Steve Jobs returned to the company as the chief executive officer and the company introduced the iPod, which literally helped the company to rise from the ashes. But while sales of Macintosh computers have been growing along with iPod or iPhone for years, Apple is now concentrating more and more on things like iPhone or iPad. Meanwhile, Macs seem to become less innovative and Apple is slowly transforming itself into a yet another PC brand.

At the moment Apple Macintosh computers lack Blu-ray disc support, business-class capabilities, Direct 3D-based video games, USB 3.0 and may other features, which personal computers powered by Microsoft Windows operating systems do support. Read more…