Subler is a better alternative to Handbrake, it will convert from mkv to MP4 losslessly, and it's primarily designed to make video files work with iTunes.
Why would you throw them away instead of reselling or even donating them? No reason to contribute to the loss of physical media.
Because they're "mine" - I'm making a backup, and still using it. If I sell or donate them, I should (ethically) delete my backups.
They're not, because you no longer posses the original media. If you're willingly throwing away a good copy, you should also delete the copies you've made.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on that.
I don't like adding to the landfills - but it's not "perfectly good" if it's just gonna sit around collecting dust, and I have to move them from house to house. I haven't owned a CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray player or drive in close to 10 years.
I disagree. The principle here is that the videos have been “shifted” to a new storage and playback medium. If the original is destroyed or unavailable for others to play, then there’s only one version of the videos in existence.
I do agree about this, but it’s also not hard to see how the OP would, if they have no use for the Blu-Ray media, choose to trash them instead of storing them -- if they’re complying with the “one playable copy in circulation” principle.
The watermark is right in the centre of the picture and hard to ignore unfortunately
