Blu-ray Ripper Tools

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…

Hi, Mac users, wanna rip your Blu-ray and rip DVDs to other popular video formats for playback on various portable devices without a BD or DVD drive? Then iToolSoft Blu-ray DVD Ripper for Mac is a good solution to be taken into consideration.

It is a two-in-one Blu-ray and DVD ripping solution for you to rip protected Blu-ray discs and DVD movies into versatile popular video and audio formats. With the new release of v3.1.1, it has been better perfected on the basis of the existing advanced functions. Now let’s have a look at this latest version of Blu-ray DVD ripper. Read more…

I have tried to finish watching Traffic several times before but it turned out that I just turned on my DVD player and then sat back on the sofa killing about three hours aimlessly. Then I would wonder what Steven Soderbergh, the director of this movie and also one of the biggest film makers in Hollywood, was doing after his two “Ocean´s Eleven” sequels.

On a long trip, I would also watch this movie to kill the immense time. Yes, pretty sure, don’t be puzzled. I just rip and convert the original DVDs with a DVD ripper which is available online. I just download and install that  iToolSoft DVD Ripper free on my computer and add the DVDs into this program, then choose the target video format. Everything is ok, just wait the conversion to be finished in a short time. Read more…

PPT, as the main tool for teaching and commercial performances, is the most popular presentation means in classes and companies. But it is very convenient if you want to watch the presentations on-the-go, for instance, on your iPhone, Blackberry, Walkman and something alike. You must convert PPT to videos for playback on your portable devices. Here are some guidelines for you:

Before considering which PPT to video converter and how to convert PPT, you must figure out what kind of portable device you want to convert for so as to fix the output video formats, if for iPhone, then choose M4V, MP4 or MOV, if for Blackberry, then choose 3G，MP4 or AVI etc..

Have decided your target player, then start the conversion. Steps in detail:

Step 1: Download and install iToolSoft PPT to Video

Step 2: Open the File menu and add your source files or folders for ripping. You can choose the latter one for batch conversion if you have multiple files for conversion. Read more…

Still think Blu-ray disc is the best one? You are out now.

 BDA (Blu-ray disc association) has announced two new upgraded format of Blu-ray, one is BDXL (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs) and the other IH-BD（Intra-Hybrid discs）. A good news for relative customers, it still frustrates some people who make a living on traditional ( I must say traditional )Blu-ray  ripping and converting.

 Victor Matsuda, chairman of BD promotion department, said that many professional people or organizations are looking for a kind of professional storage device (instead of traditional magnetic medium) that has very large storage capacity for enormous saving requirement. And they have found such a solution, that is BD. Having been validated and accepted in optical memory industry, BD has succeeded to provide a steady and long-lasting solution to store large batches of sense data, videos and images for enterprises and organizations.

 And these two upgraded formats are developed for both personal and commercial usage and are better target-oriented. Details will be formally released within the next months. Read more…