If you have a large collection of DVD’s then creating a video media jukebox can help protect your collection and free storage space. Looking at a stack of DVD’s on the shelf is not pretty the more you have the more space you need to store them. If you want to free some space in your TV viewing room why not rip and store DVD’s on an external drive. The drive can then be connected to your TV’s HDMI connection. There are a few low cost video media players that you can buy for around $100 plus the cost of the hard drive. Getting files to the media player can be a little grey as far as copyright laws are concerned. If you bought the DVD’s and back them up to a drive then you are backing up a movie that you already paid for and have a physical copy. You are using this back up for your own use and not sharing the file. This is covered under fair use for your copyrighted discs. If you download movies from a bit torrent site or other file sharing networks then you are breaking the law and can face legal challenges for those movie files. The best use of a media jukebox is for use of movie that your own legally. You can store all the movie files on the external drive and put the DVD’s away and never touch them again. When you back up DVD’s you need software to rip the disc to the external drive. There are many programs that you can find online that will work well for this task.
Once you have a collection on the external drive you use the media player to search and play the content. The top media players all have an easy to use interface and remote control. Getting the media to play on your TV should take little effort. Now you never have to worry about scratched discs.
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