Talk about a can of worms!!!
I do this and I must say that I constantly question the use of doing it. This relates directly to why B&O and others do not have a terrific system for movie storage. Apple and Kaleidescape are basically the only games in town.
I advocate Kaleidescape for many of my clients, and it makes sense for them because they A) are not looking for a digital solution specifically but rather a mass storage solution and B) they're far wealthier than me and have less to worry about if the marked tacks toward a different solution. For me, however, with my paltry dealer's stipend, I must seek other alternatives.
For a time I was ripping both sanctioned digital copy and other basic DVDs into iTunes for access by iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, etc. However, this solution was so troublesome it made me want to revert to a near-Amish lifestyle where even buttons are considered too prideful. Basically the number of times I had to (against my will) drain my AppleTVs and other devices of content and re-map my library quickly became unacceptable. Because of the DRM measures that underpin the iTunes environments, the devices are compelled to eject any and all content from themselves whenever there is a sign-in, sign-out, remap event of any type. So Apple gets an A for effort and something below an F for execution.
This has brought me to the WD Live media "thing" which is just a tiny box presumably filled with codecs and could not be simpler. What it lacks in polish and elegance it makes up for in pure ease. It's a net connected device so I can load it remotely and it has a big old hard drive attached that houses all my video content. It's also in the PUC so I've made it a matrix source at home and have been enjoying it so far.
Until the DRM environment is less limiting (surely Apple would be better if it wasn't tied to content distribution) I think that these Tvix box type solutions are the best bet. They're open-souce and basically just menus for list navigation.
The only real pain remains the sheer amount of time it takes to rip the movies to a digital format!
There is scarcely anything in this world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin