Just FYI, Slysoft, creator of fine software like AnyDVD and CloneDVD announced today that as of January 1st 2011, they will discontinue their 'lifetime' update subscription. This of course means that until that date, you'll still be able to buy the software with lifetime update subscription, which I'll do for sure! - I was going to buy this software anyway, just not yet... guess I'll speed up that 'ripping project' by a few months.

I've used CloneDVD before and it did exactly what I wanted it to do: making exact rips while allowing me to the choose weather I would like to keep all that extra junk (menus, commercials, FBI warnings, extra languages and subs,...) or just toss it. I then saved my rips as one big ISO file (which can be played by most media players no problem) which starts playing immediately when the file is selected.