I am trying to find a way to legally copy DVDs we own to an external hard drive for storage connected to my laptop. When we take long road trips it would be nice to ...

For those of you clinging to a collection of DVDs and Blu-rays, the longevity of these discs can be quite long when proper storage methods are followed.

A picture is worth 1000 DVDs.

uh, i'm assuming past your lifetime, but who knows? by then there will be something better anyway, like laserdisc on uncompressed, smaller media. I've had one that was taken care of and only viewed ...