Why rip Blu-ray movies to 1080p HD videos? Firstly, to protect your precious Avatar Blu-ray discs from scratches and worn out; secondly, to enjoy Blu-ray movies more freely on Mac and HDTV; thirdly, access Blu-ray movies at home and abroad via network; and most important of all, 1080p leads to out highest video quality and smooth motion! To rip Blu-ray to 1080p HD video, an external BD drive and Avatar Blu-ray ripping app are required. You are suggest to try Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, which is a comprehensive Avatar Blu-ray ripping tool for backing up, ripping, converting, and shrinking Avatar Blu-raymovies. A free trial version can be downloaded from the following link:

Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac (Trial)

Step 1. Load Blu-ray movies to the Blu-ray to 1080p HD Video Converter.

Connect the external BD drive with you Mac and place Avatar in BD drive. Launch the Mac Blu-ray to 1080p HD Video Converter, when the Welcome page pops up, Click “Try” to continue. In the Main interface, you’ll find “Add Video” and “BD/DVD Folder”. Click the latter to load source Blu-ray movie. By default the chapters are listed in Title Mode, select the movie chapters you’d like to copy to Mac and set subtitles and audio track for them. Leave others unchecked.

Step 2. Select desired output format for Blu-ray to 1080p HD MP4, M4V or MOV conversion.

Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac is recommended as a best tool to help you complete the Blu-ray to HD Video conversion, as it features versatile optimized formats. To rip Blu-ray to 1080p HD video, you can click the “Format” bar, and choose a favorable format from “HD Video” tab. Both “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” and H.264 HD Video (*.mov)” makes 1080p HD video with 5.1 surround sound and will play spellbinding picture on 48’ HDTV.

To further improve the video quality, you may click on “Settings” and set video bit rate up. To shrink the output file size, you may set video bit rate and frame rate down. To get 1080p M4V video, you may select “M4V –MPEG-4 Video (*.m4v) and set video bit rate to 120000kbps~ 180000kbps.

Step 3. Start ripping Blu-ray to 1080p HD MP4, M4V or MOV videos.

Now click “Convert” button to rip Avatar Blu-ray to 1080p HD MP4, M4V or MOV videos. When the conversion task is completed, get the final output files by clicking “Open” button. Now you have backed up the protected commercial Avatar Blu-ray movies to 1080p HD videos, just copy the HD movies to iTunes Library or any other location you like. Both iTunes 10 and QuickTime Player 7 plays the HD MP4, M4V and MOV videos well. You may also use HDMI cable to connect Mac with HDTV and watch the ripped 1080p movies on HDTV. The videos are in high quality. You can hardly tell the differences from original Avatar Blu-ray discs, but file size is one thirds or even two thirds down.

Tip 1: If you would like to combine all the chapters into one file, please check Merge into one file.

Tip 2: Due to the huge file size of Avatar Blu-ray movie, it usually takes hours to rip a Avatar Blu-ray movie to 1080p HD MP4, M4V or MOV video. You may click “Option” and check “Shutdown computer after conversion” before conversion progress starts so that Mac will shutdown itself upon the completion of tasks.

Tip 3: To get lossless Avatar Blu-ray contents and retain Avatar Blu-ray structure and menu, you may make full copy of Avatar Blu-ray disc.
Tip 4: You can make the Blu-ray to 1080p HD Video conversion as complex as you want with the Editing facilities. You may cut off black edges, trim out unwanted ads, add watermark, replace audio, flip video, etc. Simply click on “Editor” button on main interface to enter editing panel.

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The regional lockout prevents PS3/ PS3 Slim player from playing oversea blu-ray discs? Wanna hack the region code of your PS3 BD-Player? To be frankly, a great number of PS3 fans are trying to work out a way hacking the blu-ray region codes built into their BD players, but there are rarely successes. Here’s my suggestion for those who want to have his PS3 player play blu-rays of Region A, Region B, and Region C: Use Pavtube Blu-Ray to PS3 Ripper to rip commercial blu-ray discs to region free copy on hard drive, and stream the region free blu-ray copy to PS3 for playback. The Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is capable of cracking the AACS and BD+ blu-ray copy protections and hacking region code restrictions of commercial blu-ray discs up to MKB v17. PS3 will be no longer restricted by blu-ray region code with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, as this program deals with all-region blu-ray discs, including Region A, Region B and Region C.

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper comes with two methods for blu-ray playback on PS3 BD-Player:
1. Crack AACS and BD+ protections and hack blu-ray region lock, backup the entire blu-ray contents to hard drive without quality loss for PS3 playback. The blu-ray movie clips are copied the way they are designed, resulting in M2TS stream clips and other files (menus, subtitles, etc). Creating a region free copy of blu-ray movie costs less than an hour.

2. Bypass AACS and BD+ protections and crack blu-ray region code restrictions, rip the blu-ray movie to 1080P MP4 file, which is compatible with PS3 BD-Players and bears unnoticeable quality degradation when watching on wide screen HDTV. The process of ripping blu-ray to PS3 friendly MP4 format takes much longer – ranges from 1 hour to 8~9 hours on different computers.

Here we will go with the first way: crack region code restrictions and create a region-free copy of the blu-ray movie for PS3 (Slim) playback with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. Note that optical drive will not read blu-ray disc, you got to place the disc in a BD drive (mostly an external one). Download and install a free trial of Blu-Ray to PS3 Ripper (works with Windows 7, Vista and XP) and follow the steps below for streaming free region blu-ray movie to PS3.

Step One. Click “BD/DVD ROM” Load blu-ray disc to Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
Step Two. Click the small folder icon in Output to field to specify an output folder on your hard drive. Make sure there is enough free space for the blu-ray.
Step Three. Click the “Full Disk Copy” button to start creating a region-free blu-ray copy on your hard drive. Once the process complete, you can click “Open” to find the hacked blu-ray movie. (Tip: “Full Disk Copy” feature can be used three times only in the trial version. )

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To learn detailed process of converting blu-ray to PS3 friendly HD MP4, please refer to Ripping Blu-Ray Movie to PS3 for playback. The Blu-Ray Ripper also provides with other formats (MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, M4V, TS, VOB, etc) and presets for Xbox 360, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, iPad, iPhone and versertile Android smartphones. You may also stream DVD to PS3 for playback with Pavtube DVD Ripper. If you’re Mac fan instead of PC guy, please find Pavtube Mac Blu-Ray to PS3 Ripper instead.

QuickTime  Player is distributed free of charge. So you just wanna make full use of  this free source to watch your Blu-ray movies, but was troubled by the format  restriction? If so, this article will definitely do you a favor. It aims to  provide you with a solution for how to play Blu-ray m2ts files in QuickTime  with Pavtube rip blu-ray.  Actually, the function of this application is to remove copy protections of  Blu-ray as well as convert BRD to a format that is compatible with your  QuickTime Player or other similar players, media devices, etc. Go to find a  detailed tutorial from the contents below.

Step 1: Download, install  and run this Blu-ray to QuickTime Converter
Click “BD/DVD ROM”, “BD/DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO” to load  Blu-ray m2ts files.

Step 2: Select H.264  Video (*.mp4) as output format for QuickTime
Follow “Common Video” > “H.264 Video (*.mp4)”:

Step 3: Click “Settings”  button to adjust video and audio parameters
Please notice that which parameter to choose has close  relationship with the hardware configurations of your computer, so before your adjustment, read  the following info attentively.

For viewing  640×480 standard definition (SD) H.264 video: