Rip DVDs or Download?

[mikeinternet]

I use torrents usually AVI files. Then often convert them for Front Row.

Of course if you can borrow a buddies DVD and rip it that's quick too.

I don't really need the instant gratification of itunes.

 

[wrkngclasshero]

That wouldn't have mattered because as I said above, those horizontal lines were in the picture even when I watched the actual X-Files DVD on my computer. When those same lines carried over to the ripped copies, I gave up.

Actually, that sounds exactly like a deinterlacing issue. It's an option that I have found to sometimes need to manually activate in the View menu on Apple's DVD player.

While it's a moot point as you have already purchased the show, but handbrake would have been able to convert them for you.

 

[TheRogue]

To remove the DRM on OSX i use an app called Easytunes, I think it works up to itunes 8.0.1. Easytunes is based on Requiem (which is multi platform) and I think the latest version works up to iTunes 8.1.

The apps make a copy of the original file just without DRM (all your information is still present as these apps are not ment to promote piracy, and rightly so.) Their is no loss of quality, just a loss or restriction

Sometimes a DRM free file will appear to be corrupt, with quicktime saying its an invalid file or quicklook just showing the icon. If this is the case all you need to do is re-embed all the tags using Lostify or MetaX and this issue will be fixed.