The ongoing coronavirus outbreak has led many to search for projects that can be accomplished without leaving their home. Backing up your physical movie collection is certainly a worthy endeavor, especially in an era where fewer and fewer devices are shipping with disc drives. What's the point in owning stacks of DVDs and Blu-Rays if you can't watch them on anything but your TV?

In this guide, we'll explain how to 'rip' your movie collection (e.g. back up the discs while removing DRM protection) to video files, so you can watch your favorite films on any of your devices. If you have a PC you can leave powered on, we'll also show you how to create a media server, enabling you to stream content on-demand to your phones, tablets, and PCs.