I'm not trying to promote piracy but an HD with hundreds of my favorite movies on it is 1000x better than hundreds of Blu-Rays and DVDs. Some Blu-Rays have 3-6

I'm not trying to promote piracy but an HD with hundreds of my favorite movies on it is 1000x better than hundreds of Blu-Rays and DVDs. Some Blu-Rays have 3-6 minutes of un-skippable ads. Even if your player overrides the "not skippable" part you still have click through 3 to 10 segments to get the movie playing. Seeking on Blu Ray is much worse. And, just the hassle of taking them out of their case, loading them, unloading them, putting them back in their case, just sucks. I have a few hundred DVDs and Blu Rays. I haven't put one in to a player in > 7 yrs. DVDs are also pretty poor quality now-a-days being interlaced and ripping either is slow and painful. It's funny how DVDs looked so good at one point. Now they look pretty poor on a 60inch 4k TV. And, since we're talking about mostly old movies, I recently tried to purchase as a gift 8 famous award winning USA movies from the 30s-40s as DVDs or Blu-Rys, most of them are out of print. One claims to be in print but was out of stock according to Amazon. A few you could get for ridiculous prices out of some collectors store. A movie from 1940 is 80yrs old. It really shouldn't cost $60 in fact arguably those movies should be public domain but I'm not crossing my fingers it will ever happen.