iPod is to Music CD's as XXXXXXX is to Movie DVD's
 

What is XXXXXXX?

I have 300 or so movies & a storage device that works for dvd's the same way that iPod works for my 300 music cd's would be handy.

Has this been invented yet?

...and something other than this $8,000 do-it-all thing :D

I use iTunes to manage my movies.

I have about one hundred movies right now on two firewire drives and itunes is used to catalog them and play them.

As I don't always want to watch movies on my computer I stream them to my AppleTV.

Now that I have a iPhone I can also watch them on my phone.

I use a free program to RIP my DVDs to the drive called Handbrake.

It all works very well other then an occasional DVD that doesn't want to RIP due to some convoluted copy protection but this is rare.

iTunes has also started renting and selling movies so no RIPing needed for these.

My rich and now dead neighbor had one of these.
http://www.kaleidescape.com/
Worked great. Cost him about 20k.

Does iTunes grab info/covers from a database for the movies the way it does for music cd's?

How much space does 100 movies take up on the drives?

No but you can copy and paste them from somewhere.

The ones you buy or rent through iTunes has the artwork.

Each movie is a bit under 3 gigs ripped at highest quality from regular DVDs. With firewire or usb drives being as cheap as they are now it really doesn't matter.

If you want to watch on your TV but don't want to buy an AppleTV you can also just connect your computer directly to your TV.