Home Server

I am in the process of re-evaluating my DVD collection. Since we are getting a Blu-Ray player, I will be buying and ripping Blu-Ray movies onto my home server. These movies are huge, and I only rip full ISO copies of movies. (Without the menus and extras, what’s the point of buying the disc? I am not flexible on this issue, so telling me I should just rip the main title is a waste of your time.)

We also have subscriptions to both Blockbuster and Netflix. Yeah, I know. Why do we need both? Well, we had the Blockbuster membership forever, so we are getting unlimited in-store exchanges plus three movies at a time for $17/mo. But Netflix added streaming to the Xbox 360, so I got a subscription to that, too. STFU, we spend less on those two subscriptions combined than one movie costs in the theater these days.

So here’s my question. Since we can get virtually any movie or TV show we want from Blockbuster and Netflix, which ones should we purchase and rip to the server? A wide variety of movies and TV shows, or just the ones we watch frequently?