I have all of my ripped DVDs, HD-DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs stored on an unRAID server. I have a gigabit LAN with several Netgear 608 switches to distribute the files to any PC in my house, although I mainly use it to stream movies to my HTPC. I have the drives in the unRAID server set up for sharing folders with the same name. For example, I have about 3TB of storage spanning six drives. I have one drive with a folder for DVDs and every other drive has a folder labeled HD.DVDs. I can map to the HD.DVD folder and it lists every HD movie on every drive in a single folder on my HTPC. I simply view the desired movie on my HTPC using the appropriate playback app (TheaterTek DVD, ZoomPlayer, PowerDVD Ultra, or Nero Showtime 4) and it's just like playing back the original disc in a standalone player. I use ffdshow for standard DVD playback for the ultimate in playback quality. The results simply put my $2000 Marantz flagship universal player to shame, and it's no slouch when it comes to high-end hardware.