Making a large 4 movie, 16gig DVD file? Blueray???

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Ok, not that I plan to buy it anytime soon if ever, but I see Blueray is out now. Drives available and also disks, but of course far to costly.

However, is the software out yet to do interesting things? Cheap software, freeware, trialware, etc..?
Any other way?

What I would like to do is rip all my series type movies and make one giant DVD chain.
For example, Tremors 4 the begining, tremors1, 2, 3 and make one large DVD file to watch on the computer. Just start the DVD and let all 4 movies play in a row.

Other movies to do this with might be Police Academy, Starwars, Rocky, Rambo, etc...

I have already done this long ago, but do to 9gig size limits in programs I had to shrink alot even though I did not want to burn disks.

I don't watch TV all. I watch DVD and VHS. I decided when looking at new TVs I don't need a TV at all, I need a LARGE computer monitor! Why should I spend the money to buy a large LCD TV?? So If I buy a LARGE LCD monitor for my computer instead of a TV I basically have both anyway.
Now if I am going to watch DVD on the computer monitor, what do I need to mess with all those disks for in a player? Buy them, rip them to Hard Drive, watch them from the hard Drive. No DVD player needed. Also no DVD+/- R or Dual layer disks needed either. One rip and put away the disk!

Now one step further, just re-author all the movie series into one large DVD. I very rarely ever care about skipping around chapters of a movie, I just start it playing and watch it. So now I don't need all those chapters, so for say 4 movies I would have 1 DVD with 4 Chapters, each chapter is one full movie!
So If I want to watch one long marathon of the entire series just start the first movie and let them play in a row. If I want to watch just movie 2 3 or 4 but not the entire set I could just jump to that chapter like movie 3.

Now I could do 2 movies with something like TmpEng DVD Author or DVDLAB or such, and I have done several movies like that in the past for sets of 2, but I ran into about a 9 gig limit on DVD size I could not get past back then.
Of course I have made about a 9gig DVD, shrunk it to about 4.5, made a second 9gig DVD, shrunk it to about 4.5, then added the 2 dvd's of 4.5's for one total 9gig DVD.
Lot's of work, but it looked good still on smaller screens like the PC where it stayed.
I now figure with the LARGE formats comming out, there should be easier ways to get a 16gig or better DVD size, not have to shrink it at all, and play on a larger monitor still looking good as the original DVDs would look.

Later when Blueray drops in price to around $100 for a burner and $2 a disk the files would be ready to burn
As you see, I am in no hurry to get BlueRay, just would like to use the files sizes now.

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Why not just use smart playback software that allows you to create playlists and jukebox all of this. Why try to create big, unwieldy structures ?

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I have not been around much for the last year or so, but I never really saw anything to make a DVD playlist to play 3 or 4 DVDs in a row like that.

Might be lots of new stuff out there right now I don't know about yet?