Why should we backup blu-ray movie instead of playing  the original blu-ray disc?

Movie lovers can easily find how delicate and brittle the blu-ray disc is. It is almost impossible to protect blu-ray discs from scratches caused by frequently uses. And that’s one of the most important reasons why so many people would like to have a copy (backup) of their blu-ray discs. Blu-ray contents, as we know, take ups much more space than DVDs. How to seek a balance between video quality and file size? This article may give you some hint.

How to back up an unprotected blu-ray disc?

In order to back up blu-ray disc, you should have a BD drive that can read the blu-ray disc. Backing up an unprotected blu-ray disc is as easy as copying video files from a data disc. All you need is to connect BD drive with PC, place the blu-ray disc in the BD drive, open its root directory, find BDMV>> STREAM, and copy the *.m2ts clips to your hard drive. If you’d like to burn the disc to another blank blu-ray disc, just copy both the BDMV and BDAV folder to your hard drive and use blu-ray authoring software like Imgburn (freeware) and Nero 10 (shareware) to burn the data to a blank blu-ray disc.

How to back up a commercial blu-ray disc?

Backing up a commercial blu-ray disc is much difficult. As we all know, commercial blu-ray discs are copy-protected. AACS copy protection scheme was initially used to protect commercial blu-ray movies, but soon AACS was cracked, so the Blu-ray Disc Association turned to BD+ technology. BD+ is extra DRM on top of AACS and had not been fully penetrated prior to this. To copy movie from a copy-protected blu-ray disc to your hard drive, blu-ray ripping tool that is able to crack AACS and BD+ protections is required. Among the top blu-ray ripping software, Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is favored by movie lovers for its intuitive interface, excellent decrypting ability, and multiple blu-ray backing up solutions. Users can either make full back up of a commercial blu-ray disc with one click or copy blu-ray movie to MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, DivX, Xvid, H.264 video at 1080p, 720p, 480p and more.

Back up Blu-ray disc to ISO Image file

Solution: Making blu-ray ISO image from protected blu-ray discs

How to set up free virtual drive DAEMON Tools Lite for playing blu-ray ISO image file?

Back up Blu-ray disc to another blank blu-ray disc

How to backup Blu-ray movie from disc to disc with Blu-Ray Ripper?

How to make a copy of blu-ray disc with Pavtube Blu-ray Copy?

Note:  External BD drive is required for ripping blu-ray disc. BD writer/burner is required for burning blu-ray disc.