I recently purchased an LG 47LK530 HDVT and a 2TB hard drive. The TV is great. I have about 20 Blu-Ray movies and about 100 DVDs. My blue-ray player upconverts DVDs, but I specifically bought the hard drive to rip my DVDs and I was going to store them in bins. I am very new to this. I bought MagicDVD Ripper and I ripped a movie and saved it to the hard drive. It played but I was very disappointed in the quality. I then played the DVD of the same movie in a DVD player (not the blu-ray) connected via RCA AV cables to compare and although the quality was slightly better than the rip, watching a straight DVD on a HDTV was a little better than watching a VHS tape again. Ugh. So I guess I have to live with it, but what ripper should I get and what settings would I use to get the very best rip I could possibly get. I only got MagicDVD Ripper to rip the DVD at 640x480. I tried to get it to do 720x480 but it would not and I guess it is because my DVD was not widescreen. That is fine, I just want to rip my collection at the best quality possible. The DVDs played from the DVD player look like someone filmed the movie with a home video camera (same smooth quality). I can find a setting on the TV to make that better.