You can either rip the files to conventional hard drives, either one installed onboard the player or several connected directly to it. You could also use a NAS with several hardrives installed. A NAS is a network drive you can access over you home network and this is probably the option most would suggest if you've a fairly extensive collection of discs? Buy a 4, 5 or even an 8 bay NAS drive and install as many high capacity drives you can afford into it, the larger the better.
You'd also need a PC or a Mac and the software you'd use to rip the files. You will also require an optical drive flashed to access and rip UHD discs if wanting to rip UHD films.
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