Our Pick for Best DVD-Ripping Tools
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You shell out some serious money for DVD’s, but the format they are in is not enough in this age of multimedia to satisfy all your needs. We created a list of 5 ripping tools that will not only make a back up copy, but also keep them safely on the internet and play them on any of your portable devices. Below is our pick for the best DVD Rippers on the planet.
AnyDVD (Platform- Windows, Price- $60 per year) 
This is the 2nd commercial tool in this week’s list. It is pricey, and though you get discounts for having it for years, $60 per year is still high. However, it claims to be the best when it comes to removal of copy protection and coding schemes which implies you are never stuck in your job. It comes stacked with additional features such as allowing you to control the playback speed of the DVD, which means playing the DVD’s is more soothing in media centers, and also gives you power to remove subtitles and any other unwanted information from the disc.
DVD Decrypter (Platform-Windows, Price-Free)
It is very popular among the users for its ability to remove copy protection schemes such as CSS, and cuts across any other hurdles as well. This is despite the fact that the tool has not been updated for the last 5 years. It has a long list of loyal users as well as new ones.
Handbrake (Platform- Windows/Mac/Linux, Price-Free) 
It is one powerful ripping tool that not only rips movies but also allows you to play them on computers, your mini devices as well as other systems that are not disc based. Conversion of DVD’s and MPEG videos into MKV and MP4 is possible with Handbrake. With Handbrake, you can even alter the settings of the media to your liking such as frame rate of the video or the audio codec. Handbrake also allows you to fill your portable media like iPod with a single click very easily. As Handbrake does not come with tools to remove copy protection, you may have to depend upon any other software to make the DVD ready for conversion.
DVD Fab (Platform- Windows, Price-$50)
It is not a freeware, and a ripping tool that can remove all copy protections that are prevalent these days. It has a wide variety of options of shredding and repacking the DVD’s, once you have removed the copy protections. It makes it possible for you to rip entire DVD, rip the movie alone or arrange it into sections. Just as is the case with DVD Shrink, you can shred the larger, DVD-9 to stack in DVD-5.
DVD Shrink (Platform-Windows, Price- Free)
It is a free to use, very efficient ripping tool that compresses DVD’s. As we all know, DVD’s come in two formats, DVD-5 and DVD-9 with storage capacities of 4.7 GB and 8.5 GB respectively. Using the Reauthor mode, you can shred the fat DVD’s and bring them to the standard size, which is DVD-5. DVD Shrink is exceptional software that does its job efficiently, but the problem is that there has been no update to remove latest schemes.
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