RipIt is a one-trick pony for ripping DVDs to your hard disk, and it's quite good at it.

RipIt's concept is simple: read the data on the DVD and "copy" it to your hard disk. It can retrieve the name of the DVD from the internet. It saves an "image" of the DVD as a package that you can open with DVD Player.

In copying, it also removes many of the irksome copy-protection schemes publishers use to prevent their DVDs being ripped into video by for instance HandBrake.

The only qualm I have about the product is its error reporting. It has only one error report: telling you your disk may be unclean or damaged. This error also appears if the region code of the DVD is not compatible with your DVD drive, so check the region codes first.

I bought RipIt long time ago to help me move my DVDs into iTunes and my AppleTV (particularly, the ones with copy protection that prevent HandBrake from working). I'm well pleased with it.