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For me it's a space issue. I don't have the space downstairs in my living room for shelves of DVD's and CD's. The megachanger allows me to hide my collection, in my case almost completly (under the stairs), feed the main TV and also the rest of the house via the TV distibution system in the loft. An IP based solution is the next step on from this.


Or just go with a low tech solution like a CD/DVD binder. Toss all the packaging except for the disc, and you save a ton of space. Make sure to get a binder with removable pages so that keeping the collection in order is easier. I did this with my computer games ages ago, and might do this for DVDs now that my shelves are getting quite packed. I had considered ripping my movies, but the space usage on my collection would be quite a bit, even with transcoding. And it's not really worth the time to me, since as others pointed out, I don't put my movies on shuffle play.