RealDvD is now available for a 30 day trial and reduced price ($30 compared to $50). This basically makes a licensed copy of your DvD on your hard drive to "protect your DvDs" and allow you to easily take your collection with you. It will rip to portable drives as well as hard drives. However, the ripped copy is locked down to your specific license on your specific machine.
This is interesting for many reasons. It won't allow you to burn the DvDs (I don't think), but it doesn't prevent you borrowing your buddy's DvDs (or renting them) and ripping them. I am not sure how this is 100% legal as the company claims, but I suppose it is no different than using any of the fly under the radar ripper software packages to make an illegal copy except that it locks the copy to one specific machine.
I think I may give this a try and will report more once I have.
posted @ Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:05 AM