How do you copy a movie to your hard drive ?

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Grinch

You take the top of your hard drive off and rubb the movie on it.

What sort of transfer rate does that get ?

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

What sort of transfer rate does that get ?

Depends on how hard you rub and how long the movie is, five minutes vigorous should do a hours movie...

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by Grinch

Depends on how hard you rub and how long the movie is, five minutes vigorous should do a hours movie...

Of course you also need to factor in the certification, the frequency of the drive, and just how hard it was in the first place!

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by Grinch

Depends on how hard you rub and how long the movie is, five minutes vigorous should do a hours movie...

sounds like most of the movies on my hard drive...

Originally Posted by lukemillar

Handbrake is the best for this, and it's free!:

http://handbrake.fr/

Seconded.

Handbrake is what most people use for converting movies for iTunes / iPods / iPhones. It works very well and, as Luke says, is free.

I use visualhub on mac. Great stuff.