My DVD collection is 3 layers deep and takes up 2 tall ugly fiberboard IKEA book cases. I'd like to get them out of my living room and into a random access, cataloged digital media format.

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 not have to haul all our movies ...

Over the weekend I was sitting down looking at my DVD collection when had one of those "weekend ideas" - Would it be feasible to rip my entire DVD collection to hard disk?

Registered Flixster users can add five DVD movies to their cloud collection, no charge. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET You know what my iPad doesn't have? A DVD player.

I've got a pretty extensive DVD collection, and I've been looking for a good software or hosted solution for keeping track of and cataloging my library for a while now. So far I really haven't ...