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Build Your Own DVD Server
Filed Under Media Servers (HTPC)
As Blu-ray grows in popularity (at least among home theater enthusiasts) many of us have thought about consolidating our DVD collections to make room for more of those little blue boxes on our shelves. You might consider a DVD server as a way to streamline that process; I made the switch a few years ago and have never looked back.
Even those reluctant to travel down the full-fledged HTPC path, due the cost and complexity, may find a DVD server a viable solution. The great thing about a (standard definition) DVD only server is that the technical requirements and most importantly the cost can be kept quite low, at least compared with HDTV capable media servers.
I’ll bet many of you even have an old PC or enough parts to get started, at the bottom of some closet right now. About the only thing you would need to add to a vanilla PC to get it up to DVD server status is a sound card or USB adapter 
Programs like My Movies or Media Browser give you the slick user interface that really ties it altogether. And again, since we’re ripping the movies to the internal (or networked for that matter) hard drive; no need to locate them on the shelf, pop them into the player and then return them back to the shelf afterwards, the movie starts when you press play.
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