Thanks, all who have responded; it seems unanimous (or nearly so). Who knew? (everybody but me, apparently). Ed -----Original Message----- From: Neal Priestly [mailto:neal.priestly at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:30 PM To: Ed Bride Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Converting DVD There's a utility called handbrake that should do the trick on any DVD not content protected. It has a reasonably intuitive GUI and will output files that play on my first generation iThing with no problem. -----Original Message----- From: "Ed Bride" <Ed at edbride-pr.com> Sender: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:15:22 To: <hidden-discuss at mm01.tnrnet.com> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Converting DVD ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you.