How to Rip Heroes TV Shows From DVD

 

TV shows on DVD are a wonderful product that the entertainment industry has offered consumers. It's great to be able to watch old favorites again and again, to see episodes that you never caught on TV, and to enjoy the multitude of extras that generally are included on these DVDs.

However, one limitation with TV shows on DVD is that you have to load the actual DVD to be able to watch. Sure, that sounds like an incredibly trivial matter if you are at home and you have all of your DVDs on a shelf close to your DVD player. But suppose you are going on a business trip and you might want to watch some of the episodes in the hotel on your laptop. Or maybe you'd want to watch on your laptop during a flight. Or maybe during your break at work. In each case, you would have to have all the DVDs that you potentially would want to watch with you.

This guide will show you how to rip TV series from DVDs in different ways with different software. These files can then be placed on your laptop, new blanks disc, and portable devices, such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, Sansa View, etc., so that then as long as you have your laptop and your portable devices with you, you can watch whatever you want, whenever you want without needing to have the actual discs with you. What is explained in this guide is certainly not the only way to be able to do this (and perhaps not even the best way for your specific wishes), but it is a way that I think will work quite well for most people.

 

Use DVDSmith to Rip Heroes TV Shows from DVDs to Hard Drive:

DVDSmith Movie Backup is a free software tool that allows you easily copying DVDs and episodes on your DVDs to computer hard drive. Simply follow steps below to start ripping your TV series right away:

Step 1. Download and install this DVD copy freeware by clicking here.

Step 2. Run DVDSmith, and insert Heroes DVD movie into your DVD ROM drive, and the logo of your DVD drive will be changed into a disc shape with disc name.

Step 3. Choose backup mode:

Full Disc: this will backup all contents from the DVD, including main movie, bonus features, and maybe some other extra video clips.
Main Movie: this will only backup the main movie from the DVD, excluding bonus features or other extra video clips.

Step 4. Select source disk location in Source Disc drag-down option.

Step 5. Select output folder path.

Step 6. Start backup Heroes DVD movie to hard drive.

 

Use Any DVD Clone to Copy Heroes TV Shows Folder to DVD9 Disc:

Any DVD Clone is also able to copy DVD to Backup folder. Moreover, it can do much more than DVDSmith, for example, it shrinks DVD9 to DVD5, copy any DVD to ISO, burn DVD backup folder to DVD5 or DVD9. Please follow belows step to store a TV show backup folder from a computer to DVD9.

Step 1. Download and install Any DVD Clone by clicking here.

Step 2. Insert a black DVD disk into DVD burner, and click Burn to DVD button.

Step 3. In the Burn to DVD window prompted, click folder icon:

Step 4. In the Browse For Folder window prompted, find the Heroes folder from your hard drive.

Step 5. Click Burn button in Burn to DVD window to start burning.

Wait for a while, a backup DVD will be created successfully.

 

Use Any DVD Converter to Rip Heroes Episodes from DVD to iPod

Any DVD Converter Professional is best DVD ripping software in the market that allows you to copy DVD to a variety of portable devices, such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, Zune, Creative Zen, and more. Please follow steps below to have fun.

Step 1. Download and install Any DVD Converter from this link.

Step 2. Launch converter and in the program, select your portable device's format from Profile drop down list.

Step 3. Press Open DVD button to add Heroes DVD in the program and press Encode button to convert:

Step 4. Once encoding is finished, go to left panel, click on the device's label. And in the middle window, right click on the converted file and select Open File Location, then you can check this video in the output folder from the hard drive.

Step 5. Import converted videos to your portable devices.

 

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