I already emailed these as feedback but thought it useful to post here so we can discuss: 1. Managing a huge book and CD collection is great but what I really need is a way to…

These are all good features... things I'd like to do, but of course I don't want to do any of them halfway, so if you don't see 'em in the next release, it's not because I didn't l…

Hey. So I have The Simpsons, Family Guy, That 70s Show, and a few other shows on DVD. I was wondering if there was a way to rip them to my HD, seperate them out into individual e…

Just use handbrake. It's by far the easiest way to do what you want. The only problem is that you have to resize the video to the iPod's dimensions (320 x 240) for each episode you…

Cinematize ! http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12587

Cinematize looks PERFECT! Any cheaper/free alternatives? hehe I've been looking for a long time for a program that will extract sound/video clips from DVDs.

I've never used or heard of Cinematize, but a casual glance at the feature list shows that it doesn't even decode encrypted DVDs, which means that you would have to rip your DVDs w…

So could you help me figure out how I seperate a DVD that has like 4-6 episodes of a TV show into 4-6 sseperate MP4 files using HandBrake, rather than converting the whole disc...t…

Most TV DVDs are divided up so that the different episodes are in different "titles" on the DVD. So all you have to do is set up handbrake with the proper settings (more on that la…

Also, I use Mac The Ripper to decrypt and compress DVDs, then of course HandBrake to convert them to mp4. Is there a way to compress the file size even more without sacrificing to…

You don't need to use Mac The Ripper with handbrake. I would use h.264 if you're concerned about quality vs. size. It gives a better picture than MPEG4 at a lower size. You can al…

I think I can figure that out. Thanks for the tip! I'm currently ripping Anchorman DVD with HandBrake right now. I ripped it once but it only ripped the deleted scenes and not t…

I'll try h.264. Is there any reason why that isn't the iPod standard? Seems like mp4 is more so the standard. Smaller file size and better quality should be the standard to me.

It is the standard in the sense that all of the iTunes Music Store videos use h.264. h.264 is a variant of MPEG4, though, so if you were to look at the videos in iTunes, they would…

Ahhh, makes sense. Well thanks for all of the good information man, I really appreciate it!

I had the same issue with the Pink Panther Cartoons. Handbrake took care of it all. It does batch conversions, so I can see each episode based on the time chapters (about 6 mins ea…

I got it all figured out using HandBrake finally. Works great!

Anyone have one yet. Thinking about ordering one. How does the screen look. If you had it to do over again, would you order the glossy screen ?

Yes. Do it (there is a lot of reading out there regardiong earlier 'book problems. But mine is flawless.) Last week I received my MBP, glossy screen, 7200rpm hd... I would suggest…

Quote: Originally Posted by Burn Yes. Do it (there is a lot of reading out there regardiong earlier 'book problems. But mine is flawless.) Last week I received my MBP, glossy s…

i thought they did?

Go for the glossy! I have a 15" glossy, and my friend here at work as a 15" matte. She looked at my glossy, and then exclaimed that she hated me. Reflections are nowhere near as b…

When you buy a laptop, you're stuck with the screen for as long as you keep your laptops. That means you should definitely go to an Apple Store and compare glossy and matte side by…

Quote: Originally Posted by iREZ i thought they did? I mean in the nearer future.

I've got a Macbook and think the glossy screen is great. True, every so often I will have to adjust if the lighting changes, but that is rare.