DVD library on external hard drive to watch movies on flatscreen TV

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I'm moving into a tiny house and have no room for my DVD/Blu-Ray collection. I do have space for a decent size flatscreen TV (~36 inches). I want to be able to connect an external hard drive to the TV and be able to scroll through all of my movies and have them accessible at the click of a button. So, I figure I need to rip(?) all of my hard copy DVD's onto an external hard drive that I can connect to my flatscreen TV. I want the best quality of my movies, so I figure 2-4TB external hard drive will suffice, but what format is best? MPEG? AVI? ISO? Also, what is the recommended software?

There aren't a lot of sources on the internet that explains my request in Layman's terms. So if anybody has a good reference, I would appreciate it. Also, if I want is impossible that would be informative also. Thanks!