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While when buying Blu Ray movies I always look for packages containing digital downloads, they don’t always exist and this makes things tougher to get my purchased content onto my iPad and AppleTV.  Blu Ray rip tools have been on the PC for a while and I’ve had opportunity to test out three different ones for the Mac.  MakeMKV also rated highly but the current price was more than I was willing to pay for a tool I will use very rarely.  Rarely because I will only rip movies I have paid for and I don’t buy a lot of movies as I use renting as my crap screen.  Unfortunately, the crap screen needs a lot of cleaning.

So when I decided to buy software after evaluating, I bought MacBluray Ripper Pro.  It sells for $19.95 USD through the Avangate secure web store.

As you can see from the screen grab, the interface is simple.  Insert disc in drive.  Once recognized set in Preferences where you want the rip stored and click RIP.  Eject when done.  The little app is very fast and so far (six rips – told you I don’t buy a lot of movies) has performed flawlessly.   Transferring to iTunes has been more problematic as I wanted to use my Turbo 264 HD but it depends on the paid version of Flip4Mac and as I use Windows media pretty much never, this ticked me off, so I went back to the old faithful Handbrake.

Hasn’t let me down yet, although it would be cool if it used the coprocessor in the Turbo 264 HD stick.

Like they say, there’s always a catch.  You need a Blu Ray drive and Apple doesn’t offer this as an option.  I bought a LaCIE external Blu Ray recorder about a year ago so I could dump my video and audio working files onto 50GB rewritable disks.  I leave a disk mounted pretty much all the time and it’s worked out pretty well.  The LaCIE drive is overpriced and I have shied away from their products after losing several of their external drives well before MTBF, but this one has, knock wood, been reliable.

You’ll also need drivers for the drives and to make the media available.  As I have been a Roxio Toast Titanium customer for a long while, I bought V10 with the added Blu Ray support and the drive works great with media appearing on the desktop nice and quick.

MacBluray Ripper Pro comes from blumac software – more info at http://www.macblurayripperpro.com/ It’s a good product and worth the $20 if making digital copies of movies you’ve bought is important to you.  I have to admit, I’m not nuts about their use case to timeshift rented movies as this opens the door for potential theft, but to each their own.  Don’t steal movies or music.  Please.

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