[itsahoot]

It's a device that my wife and children play movies and shows on.

Use the free App Handbrake to rip your DVD to an MP4 file and run that from an SSD. Carrying DVDs around is a bummer and DVD players gobble up battery power.

There is a considerable after market for adapters that let power users take out the DVD drive and replace it with a hard drive or SSD.

[Dr. Sivana]

Use the free App Handbrake to rip your DVD to an MP4 file and run that from an SSD. Carrying DVDs around is a bummer and DVD players gobble up battery power.

We have an iMac, NOT a laptop.

I hear ya on Handbrake, but when I try to talk about it to my intelligent but non-techniocally oriented wife, she sticks her fingers in her ears, and starts singing French-Canadian songs (exagerating, but only slightly).