How To: Rip your DVDs with 50% more resolution than Apple's way

So I did a little more research and updated my original article - if you've got a typical 2.40:1 aspect ratio movie*, Apple's downloadable movies are all 640 pixels wide - your DVDs are 720 pixels wide. Apple converts to square pixels, but my way you can use an anamorphic aspect ratio and use more resolution.

I bought Cars off the iTunes online store to show off iPod video for my neice and nephew on a road trip. The 2.35:1 aspect ratio movie is 640x272, for a total of 174,080 pixels.

If I rip it my way, I'll get 720x368=264,960 pixels.

That's 52% more pixels, thus 52% more resolution - and who wouldn't want half again better resolution for their movies on their AppleTV? Granted, these won't play on iPod video, but I don't want to watch them there anyway.

Read on for all the details on how to do it:

AppleTV Hacker: Mike's Hands on Report: Step By Step How To Rip DVDs for AppleTV with MediaFork

* (like many big budget movies are - Casino Royale and Blood Diamond are my two test examples)