several months ago, i wanted to rip and decrypt a blu-ray disc and to be able to transcode it for an ipod, psp, ps3, iphone, apple tv etc. i was a newbie on this field and had no idea at all about which program i should use. so i googled reviews but found so many programs listed on the web with each has its own good ones and bad ones, that really beat the hell out of me.

after many trials, i came to the following conclusions:

1. do not trust video converters can do this job.
in fact, none of the reliable transcoders and converters worked at all. almost all converters could just only do converting job rather than ripping.

2. some hot programs are not as good as they boasting. i was very disappointed with handbrake (crashing), ivideo converter produced choppy files at 720p, visualhub never finishes, popcorn won't support any hd input at all (mkv, iso images, or even bdmv folders), and the story is the same with dvdremaster pro and reframe.

3. never pay for any package or suite. the hardest thing to bear for me is that so many companies bundle several different program into one suite and sell it to you under coercion. you can't just buy a transcoding app, you have to buy an iphone encoder, then an appletv encoder, etc.

well, i'm pleased to say that this doesn't seem to be the case with isharesoft blu-ray ripper. it not only rips, but it transcodes too. there are more than a dozen devices listed for converting goals. it decrypted all discs i've tried so far and they all played extremely well on my appletv at 720p. the most curious things to note are that this program successfully accepted an iso image and a bdmv folder i made under vista using anydvd hd which has to be the best bd decrypter out there. so, if you need to rip with anydvd hd, then isharesoft blu-ray ripper will easily convert it, or you can always rip with isharesoft blu-ray ripper too. it would not accept the newest disc. also worth noting is that the bdmv folder and the iso image i made using anydvd hd burned a beautiful bd-re disc at 1080p and played in my ps3 and in my sony bdp-s360 player.

so, i'd recommend you isharesoft blu-ray ripper if you want to rip a blu-ray to transcode for an appletv, ipod, iphone, psp, ps3, xbox, zune etc.

i hope other find this helpful, and thanks to the many people who have helped guide me through this.