I have Apple TV 3's and two Dune's for video streaming. The ATV's in US have a 1080p video rental selection for TV shows and movies that is pretty good, for lossless video/audio viewing in the HT I use MKV's and Zappiti for my jukebox.

Z has a good iPad app for browsing movies/TV shows (they may have also released an Android app recently).

Lossless Bluray rips are very disk space intensive. I have learned a lot about ZFS and NAS technologies while struggling to scale to the space needed to store my fav films in BD 1080p.

IMHO you have to consider a Zappiti/Plex/iTunes library mgmt solution in addition to your hardware criteria.

Don't forget about backing up all you've ripped and storing offsite.


Primary: 818v3+ID41, M6 stereo pair, M SpeakerLink cabling, Sonos+96kHz Cullen, silver DSW
HT: Marantz prepro, 271, DSP3300, 8K SE FL/FR pair, DSP M6x2, DSP320x4 (ceiling), black DSW, 520 RL/RR rear in-walls
Living Room: G65, 640 L/R in-walls, UHD722, MS600
Vac. Home: G61, HD621, 4xDSP3100, DSP3100HC
MDMS:NUC/ROCK+TrueNAS Core 12.0 ZFS file server