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Suggestions for a DVD Video on Demand System?

Posted by Cliff on from the serving-it-up-when-you-want-it dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I was paid, with about 1000 DVD movies, by a video rental store that owed me money and then subsequently went out of business. I'd like to rip a couple hundred of them to a 1 TB disk array, and serve them up to my big screen, via a video on demand system. However, all the systems I can find for interfacing computer network to the plasma display only serve up the basic MPEG files, and not the entire ripped DVDs with their menus, etc. What systems would Slashdot readers suggest that could manage the ripped DVD files as a complete disk, and serve them up?"

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  1. suggestion by jsk2001 · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Buy a cheap computer with a TV Output and rip the DVD's to dual 250GB hard drives

  2. get an xbox and chip it by js62 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    mod an xbox, you can map the external drives to the xbox and stream the full dvd stream to your tv set.

  3. Re:How good are you with programming? by exhilaration · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And you'd lose the menus, which he wants.

  4. Disc Changer? by rschroeder · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Why hasn't anyone suggested a DVD changer?
  5. Another (Simpler?) Idea by sartori-pa · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Try three of these, room for all the dvd's you have plus room to grow. Sony 400 DVD Jukebox

  6. Use a DVD jukebox? by KE1LR · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Rather than ripping 1000 DVD's (who's got the time??), I'd go with a pair of Sony's DVP-CX985V 400-disc DVD jukeboxes ($399). It does progressive scan and handles CD's, MP3 CD's, SACD's and DVD's. This is the ultimate weapon for those with huge DVD/CD collections... not to mention getting all that shelf space back!

    I have one of the 300-CD changers and it's worked extremely well. I'm considering upgrading to one of these to merge my CD and DVD collections into a single unit.

    It has a big brother too - the DVP-CX777ES which is the same size but has various additional features.