@nczuma: Because they're always terrible quality?

@Wrocky: Use AnyDVD and HandBrake. AnyDVD is the best at decryption, HandBrake is best at conversion—they're all you'll ever need.

@JPMarat: DVD Can't finish a DVD successfully without hitting one of those potholes that the manufacturers put in there. I HATE DVD43. AnyDVD+CDBurnerXP or AnyDVD+Handbrake have never failed on me, and I paid $40 for it once (for the HD version too), I don't know what this $60/year bizznass is.

@John Steele: Bluehost is very nice in terms of permissions. It lets scripts do pretty much anything you want, and the Apache/PHP extensions are pretty decent. Cheeeeeap, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains and the first one is free. They will throttle your CPU usage though, if you get to resource intensive...…