
Previously, to watch these movies on your smartphone or other device, you would have needed both the iTunes app and the Amazon Video app - and if you recently switched to an Android device, you would have had to employ some shady workaround to even watch Episode III.

To put it simply, Movies Anywhere is a system that allows you to access your movie purchases from any of the participating studios and retailers (and associated apps) and organize them into one app.įor example, say you already own Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (having bought it years ago on iTunes), and you recently purchased Rogue One: A Star Wars Story via Amazon. Where the law gets a little more serious is if you start sharing, or selling, copied files: that will land you in court. Technically it is illegal in the UK to copy any media, but the law has never been enforced (to our knowledge) when it is a product you own and it’s for your own personal use. According to the government report: “The supply and use of equipment to circumvent technological measures is therefore illegal in UK and European law in recognition of the damage it can cause.”īecause DVDs have digital protection, you do not get a DVD Import feature in iTunes alongside the CD Import. No, it is not legal to ‘space shift’ or copy a DVD you own to watch on an iPad or other electronic device.Īt the end of 2011 The UK Government made it legal for us to make copies for personal use of our media, but that didn’t mean it was legal for people to break the DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology that protects DVDs. You can install the Netflix and Lovefilm apps from the App Store. These video streaming services are used to stream movies directly from to an iPad (via a dedicated app). If you find converting DVDs to iTunes a chore, you might want to consider using service like Netflix and Lovefilm. Use a video streaming service instead of ripping DVDs to iPad Now that the digital video files in iTunes you can sync it with the iPad. Locate the file in Finder and drag to iTunes.Click Browse and choose a location for the video file.If the Presets Drawer is not already open, click the Toggle Presets button at the top of the HandBrake window (or press Command-T).The title with the longest duration is often the DVD’s main feature. HandBrake chooses what it thinks is the main title, but you can click the pop-up menu next to Title and choose the item you want to encode.

Choose the DVD volume using the Finder window. Open the libdvdcss.pkg file and follow the install process. Click on the libdvdcss.pkg link on the website to download the file. Click Source and choose the DVD using the Finder window.

Insert the DVD into the Mac’s optical drive.Follow these steps to convert a DVD to a digital file:
