bevinator: Netflix streaming has horrible selection and in many cases doesn't get you the quality that your connection should deserve. It's nice, of course, if you want to watch mediocre movies from two years ago, but it doesn't really compare. You're much better off having blurays delivered rather than streamed.

Heretic777: Just stream your movies from Netflix or Amazon and forget the whole Blu-ray crap.

Navagon: Yeah, I've got loads of DVD-Rs. But at some point when money's a little bit less of a concern I want to get a couple more drives, put them in enclosures and just copy everything to them, so I've got that as well. Thinking about it though, I think I'll also need a lot more time on my hands too. :P

orcishgamer: Alright. I'm pretty tech savvy, but this stuff is such a PITA it's easier to let someone else deal with the constant updates and headaches, Slysoft may be on a subscription model now, not sure, they kept threatening it back in the day, but I have lifetime keys for almost all their products, they are literally that easy. If you decide to try again from disk, I highly recommend giving AnyDVD HD a shot (this one removes copy protection and DRM on the fly as you do anything with the disk, which is super cool as your ripping program, or playback program doesn't even see the encryption, it's removed before it gets there!).

PhoenixWright: I can back orcishgamer up on the AnyDVD HD recommendation. There might even be a thread on this site with me posting almost exactly the same thing. I was furious when I found out how useless my BRs were, but that program took care of the problem. I hated to pay for it, but ultimately I support what the software does and came to terms with shelling out for a good cause.

Darkcloud: You can try to use XBMC it uses some workaround to make Blu-Ray work with it that should bypass the copy protection.

WBGhiro: Optical drives may be obsolete for games, since steam and gog are around. But name me a service comparable to those two for movies.

sanscript: lol, know the feeling :D. I'm considering a prebuilt-NAS for that so I won't have to use so much time building one myself. But, yeah, It's time consuming. Don't know where I'm gonna start - because there's always something new to be backed up as well.

SimonG: Piratebay?

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WBGhiro: Hearing that from you is like having a monk tell me it's okay to murder people.

Navagon: If I was going to make backups of that size then I wouldn't use optical media. You're basically spending £5 on a disc. Hell of a thing to turn into a coaster. I'd say HDDs instead. Although that's not such a great investment since those floods. But even so, better than the alternatives.