Im currently doing the exact opposite; burning all my mkv's to dvd so I can have a physical collection, with kunaki.com to print the dvd case and cover.
Main issue is that dvd covers are ugly as sin, and there's no archive of the disk image that isn't a literal photo of the disk (but the case covers are scanned on http://www.cdcovers.cc/), so I've been creating my own,
and dvd authoring is a pain in the ass if you want soft-coded subs, and multiple audio tracks
But since my target player is ps3, which apparently supports avi w/ xsubs and mpeg4, I'm planning to switch out to that: video quality is much better for the disk size between mpeg2 and mpeg4 (kunaki only produces cd and dvd5, so a blue-ray archive is out)
Honest question - why go the other way (unless the answer is because you got them with questionable legality)? I have stacks of DVDs that I bought over the last 15 years, and I’m ripping them all because I hate having the discs around and would rather have them in Plex. Going deliberately in that direction isn’t something I’d see desirable, but I only see from my point of view.
Same reason I have a bookshelf instead of just a list of pdfs and ebooks; its a lot nicer to browse through a curated collection physically.
I don't like caring about individual copies though, so having a way to recreate them cheaply on lost/damage/borrowed-but-never-returned is pretty useful imo. I get to treat it both digitally and physically on preference.
Ofc, all the stuff I haven't watched, like but wouldn't recommend, etc will never leave digital. The ideal scenario is just that I can pull a dvd off a shelf when I recommend it, instead of scrambling for a usb or mega or scp; if its possible, physical sharing is a lot nicer than digital
Main issue is that dvd covers are ugly as sin, and there's no archive of the disk image that isn't a literal photo of the disk (but the case covers are scanned on http://www.cdcovers.cc/), so I've been creating my own,
and dvd authoring is a pain in the ass if you want soft-coded subs, and multiple audio tracks
But since my target player is ps3, which apparently supports avi w/ xsubs and mpeg4, I'm planning to switch out to that: video quality is much better for the disk size between mpeg2 and mpeg4 (kunaki only produces cd and dvd5, so a blue-ray archive is out)