Your DVD shelf is collecting dust: Digitize it for $29.99
Boing Boing is promoting a discounted offer for DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper, a software tool designed to digitize physical DVD collections. The application converts various disc formats into digital video files while bypassing common copy-protection mechanisms. It includes editing features and supports conversion to over 1,000 output formats for use on modern devices.
- ▪The software is available for $29.99, which is a discount from its regular price of $59.99.
- ▪DVDneXtCOPY supports decryption of CSS, region codes, and other protection schemes on DVD-5, DVD-9, and related media.
- ▪The tool offers built-in editing capabilities such as cropping, trimming, and adding subtitles before conversion.
- ▪The application is exclusive to Windows operating systems and requires a DVD drive and 2GB of RAM to function.
- ▪The license is for a single device and includes updates without any recurring subscription charges.
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| Original publisher | Boing Boing |
| Canonical URL | https://boingboing.net/2026/09/23/your-dvd-shelf-is-collecting-dust-digitize-it-for-29-99.html |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T03:55:13.935Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T03:55:13.935Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | qloj8xohlVm7 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Your DVD shelf is collecting dust: Digitize it for $29.99 Boing Boing's Shop 8:00 pm Wed Sep 23, 2026 Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper converts your discs, including copy-protected ones, into MP4, MKV, AVI, and MOV files that play on the devices you actually use. Get it for $29.99 (reg. $59.99). Discs don't age well. The player in the living room is probably the last one in the house, and the shelf of movies sitting next to it plays on nothing else you own. Grab DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper for $29.99 (reg. $59.99) and move the whole collection onto a drive instead.
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