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Offtopic, but I will ask because it makes no sense to me.
Why would anyone spend the time needed to make high bitrate bluray rips with dolby to use with plex, vlc, etc?
it takes about an hour per disc. It would take me at least three months to do my entire collection..but on the deal forums guys buy $200 shield pros to use exclusively with plex
I realize torrents exist but it is still about 30 minutes per disc in terms of downloading, not to mention finding seeds for everything
I just do not see the reward, it takes a minute to pop a disc in a player. Unless something changed...but even on a ryzen 7 5800x with 32gb ram handbrake and make mkv take the same amount of time as they did on every other PC I have had
You answered your own question - it's torrents. Torrents can come in convenient bulk packages, and you can bulk download in the background with basically no input from you (unlike the hurry up and wait of physical media ripping).
The speed of ripping the disc is not based on your cards or processor, but on the speed of your optical drive itself. If you want to increase ripping speeds, you'd need a better disc drive - another reason why these people mainly deal in torrents. Maybe a few of them were diligently digitizing throughout the 2010s, but most of them are coming in late and just scooping up the premade torrents.
Of course, all this assumes that HDMI itself will never become obsolete or be replaced. It is important to remember that all castles are sand castles.