Last year my brother schooled me on the Micca player. It's a portable file player that plays video or music files straight from a hard drive and it's just a little bigger than a deck of cards, so you can put it anywhere. That's mostly what I use these days. It plays all kinds of files, including MKV, which is what Blu-Ray files are. It's a lot easier because you don't have to deal with scratched discs or the bulk of storing all those discs. On a 500 gb hard drive you can store maybe 350 movies, plus maybe 3 0r 4 thousand songs.