The entertainment industry has spent an untold amount of money creating and implementing copyright protection for its content. Because copy protection prevents casual copying to other media, such as a ...

The ubiquity of 4K videos makes high-quality content much more accessible. More and more 4K videos and displays are becoming ...

Offline media libraries are a way around the ephemeral nature of streaming services. If you want to collect a legal library, you'll mostly be ripping DVD and Blu-ray discs, but some public domain ...

We might be in the era of cloud streaming and subscription services, but media ownership (both digital and physical) is still alive and well. That said, being able to consolidate and stream your ...

Instead of replacing your NAS, just get a more powerful computer instead. I’d recommend going with a mini PC or desktop, but ...

MakeMKV ($50, 30-day free trial) has a simple little name, and there’s no big trick to transcoding a video from one container format to another. If that were all this utility did, it would be ...

Intel recently abandoned 4K Blu-ray playback for its newer CPUs, and the news sadly came as little surprise. Security issues have long plagued the company’s SGX technology, and relatively few people ...

Essentially, I don’t want to fill my home with rows of hard drives—the original scope of my idea was too big. And the way I ...