"I have some commercial DVDs that I want to rip DVD to Hard Drive. What are the top programs for doing this?"-------Paul Frank
If you are looking for an excellent DVD to hard Drive Ripper, here is a recommended one for you: iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Windows, which can record, save, copy and rip DVD to Hard Drive on PC. In any need of ripping DVDs to Hard Drive, this DVD Hard Drive solution can always do a good job to rip DVD to hard drive. It also provides fully support to Windows Vista and Windows 7. Free download it, follow the tutorial and start ripping DVDs to Hard Drive.
Free download iSkysoft DVD Ripper and install it onto your PC.
Click on Load DVD, and import your DVD disk onto the program. You can preview the whole content in your disk from commercial previews to main movie. Choose an output format from Profile, here we choose "WMV-Windows Media Video (*.wmv)" as an example since it's the native video format for Windows users. Also you can choose subtitle and audio track from the above.
If your movie looks a bit darker on computer, you can tune the brightness via "Edit". Here you can tune brightness, contrast and saturation here. What's more, you can crop and add watermark onto your video.

After everything's been set up, press START and the program will start recording and copying DVD to hard drive. In order to speed up the process we suggest you close any un-necessary activity to save more room and CPU usage for ripping DVDs to hard drive.