First of all, let me just say that I'm not one to break copyright protection on digital media. But, I have quite a large collection of DVD's that I want to put into iTunes. My favorite collection is the entire series of Star Trek The Next Generation. I have all seven seasons on DVD and some of them are starting to get a little scratched. So I've found that the best way to backup my DVD's was to put them into iTunes.

I have a brand new 3.06 GHz iMac with a 1 TB hard drive but I keep all of my iTunes on an external Seagate 500 GB FreeAgent Firewire drive. So I found this handy DVD video conversion utility called "iMedia Converter" by iSkysoft. This is such a great piece of software I just had to write about it. I can convert to and from so many different video formats. Right now I'm converting one of my DVD's to MPEG-4 Format (.m4v) which is what iTunes uses as it's video format.

For only $49.00 for the software to backup my DVD collection, it is well worth the price.