It's been about 8 years since I bought my last dvd and have never bought a blu ray movie. Only blank blu ray media to back stuff up. Now I just download movies I want to watch, watch them, then delete them. Save so much space. I have about 100 movies on my spare 1tb SSD, mainly ripped from blu ray off the internet. I convert them to MP4, then play them using the usb on my TV. It works perfectly. I don't care about image quality as long as I can see what's happening. I also have to boost the sound by 200% because my TV is so quiet and being 50% deaf doesn't help. I always use headphones too because of the neighbours.. I have tried using your method, but I can't here the movie. Boosting the volume 200% works better for me.