“Boygeniusreport published screen captures of the future iTunes 9,” Lionel reports for Hardmac.
MacDailyNews Note: Please see: New iTunes 9 screenshots depict Facebook social playlist integration, third-party device support – August 19, 2009
Lionel continues, “One of them displays a button defined as [“Import DVD.”] It would be a true revolution as Majors [have] never allowed [an official] application to perform such [an] action.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Not only that, but it’ll be Mac-only, too. 
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This would be fantastic!
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If true, this would be great; I’ve never been able to get Handbrake or similar ripping software to work well. If Apple has worked out a way to let people import DVDs (maybe not allow them to be burned to calm the studio Heathers), that would be awesome; there are a lot of older movies that will never hit the iTunes Store.
Not to be confused with DVDA Ripping……
This will never happen, because what would prevent people for ripping rented DVD. Sales for DVD would simply plummet. Sure, it would be nice, but it’s NOT going to happen.
This would, indeed, be terrific if true. Just a few days ago I tried the latest Handbrake on a disk of Firefly episodes. Using default settings, after more than two hours of processing on a 2008 iMac (2.4), I ended up with … garbage.
Obviously selling movies online via itunes is making money for the studios, just like selling music online has. I doubt it will have any affect on physical purchases…
Faked screenshot.
There’s no way the entertainment industry would allow Apple to do this, at the same time they’re working like crazy to trample RealDVD into the dust.
If they tied it to your iTunes account so you couldn’t illegally share it I think it would be fine – even with rentals as you are the only one watching them.. Just like the digital copy that some DVD’s have now.
deepdish
Humm, never thought of “them” as having eyes
My Lord …
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If it does allow DVD ripping then I suspect that it will be home movie DVDs not studio copy protected DVDs.
@MacKnight
I second that. It could also be for DVD-Audio, like TowerTone suggests. If they’re gonna let people burn their DVDs, expect Netflix subscriptions to double!
I’ve had nothing but success with Handbrake.
I have to say this would be fantastic. I would quite happily pay a token fee (£1?) to gain the ability to legally rip my DVDs to iTunes in such a fashion, providing I would have the ability to fiddle with the encoding settings to some degree. IIRC the movies purchased on iTunes, and Digital Copy files, are at quite a high resolution, and not ideal for portable (ie. iPod) usage. This would hopefully offer the flexibility of creating a 320*240 / 480*320 iPod-specific file.
Fingers crossed!
@Gabriel: this may be a hoax, of course, but crushing RealDVD and supporting iTunes are not necessarily contradictions. Apple could easily have agreed to include some licensing framework that RealDVD lacks. It’s all about control, remember, not denying choice. Think about the extra revenue generated by allowing home users to create their own iPod files using their own hardware and DVDs, all for a small fee. Can’t see the movie industry passing up what is such a lucrative market with very little capital investment required.
@Raymond in DC: I myself have ripped Firefly to 320*240 H.264 iPod-compatible files with Handbrake no problem—Region 2 discs though. Give it another shot.
@TowerTone: “DVDA Ripping”—*sarcasm* thanks for the mental image… *grin*
No way it would be commercial dvds because not all countries allow you to make a copy of purchased dvds etc. So what is Apple going to do, provide different versions of iTunes? Yeah right!
srgb
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*IF* and that’s a big *IF* this is even remotely true, there is no way Apple will Rip Commercial DVDs. It is not currently legal to do so in the US due to DMCA.. Even DVDs that you really do own.. RealNetworks tried to do this and are currently in a major legal battle… Commercial DVDs have copy protections in place. DMCA makes it illegal to try and get around those protections. Fair Use was thrown out of the window.. It would be great if Apple was willing to fight the legal battle over it, but it makes zero business sense for them to do so.. At least not till after they see what happens to RealNetworks.
TT
Thought I might try to get in on your contest for the T-Shirt Give Away
But then went and looked up DVDA in the OSX Dictionary/Wiki …
“Double vaginal, double anal, a fictional sexual position from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s film Orgazmo.”
Whoa, now understand how that guy ended up in the wheelchair
BC
“RealNetworks tried to do this and are currently in a major legal battle…”
Actually, they lost a recent hearing, so things don’t look good. This could be something that Apple was considering if Real was successful. But seeing how success looks unlikely, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that go…
…unless Apple got permission. Apple kisses the labels and studio’s asses (Don’t believe me? Two words: Ring tones) so they wouldn’t consider doing anything without permission.
BC
That was the woman.
Be sure to read the back….
OK it doesn’t say Rip DVD, it says Import DVD, this would be there so you could import the Digital copy that comes with some DVD \ Blue-Ray disks from iTunes instead of initializing this process from the disk.
BTW (ironically) DVDA is the name of Matt and Trey’s band that does some of the music in their movies, like “America, F*ck Yeah!”
So I guess there is a painless way for DVDA ripping…..
Actually – a MP4 copy of a DVD is NOT an exact copy of the movie – so I might be legal because you can’t burn a MP4 onto a DVD that will be playable. RealNetworks is making a DVD copy.
Ipod Boy,
In Australia, by way of example, it is illegal to make any type of copy of a movie. Likewise the mere possession of software that allows you to do such a thing is a federal (and criminal) offence. So you think Apple would allow themselves to be prosecuted for this? I don’t think so.