How to Convert DVDs to Play On Your iPod Quickly (and Not Get Ripped Off By Loser Software)

By Richard Johnson

You’ve probably thought about converting your DVD collection to play on your iPod. …A quick search on Google reveals hundreds of these downloadable “DVD to iPod” converters. But how do you know which one to use? Our intrepid editors spent a full month testing and reviewing dozens of software to find the right answer.

To test each product, we converted newly released DVDs and TV shows to play on the iPod. This allowed us to easily see if the software created a quality mp4 conversion. (The format used to play on the iPod.) We tried new released movies such as Iron Man, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and tv shows such as Heros and HBO’s Entourage.

Our Shocking Discovery ...

It seems the greater majority of “DVD to iPod” conversion software simply does not work as promised. In almost all cases they had slow conversion speeds, were difficult to operate, and gave an end product where the audio did not line up with the video!

Another finding of ours was even more disturbing. During our testing we downloaded many different products. It wasn’t long before we noticed our computers were not running as smoothly as they used to. It seems some of these manufacture’s were including data mining spyware with the software! First they sell you a poor performing product, and then they steal your personal information to sell to advertisers. Maybe for them that’s business, but for us, it ’s a huge violation of privacy.

Fortunately, we were able to find a few products that stood out above all the rest. To begin with, these products did not come with any spyware to steal your personal information. Second, no matter which DVDs we converted, we got a perfect copy to play on the iPod. Each of these proved to work faster with better quality than any of the competition.

We reviewed ten DVD to iPod applications. You can check them out at http://www.dvd2-ipod.com. Of the bunch, we preferred 1Click DVDtoiPod. We loved the ease of use; and much more the price and product support.