I recently purchased and very much like the HD Media Hub.
I had 70 DVDs ripper to an external USB drive, and they transferred easily to the Hub.
I have many unprotected DVDs.
I surely am missing something, but how does one get the DVD contents to the Hub? It does not recognize my USB DVD drive. It does not see a DVD drive on networked computers.
You need to connect to the hub via the network port, then on your pc you can view the hard drive as a network drive.
You can then just drag over any files you require, its slow though so be prepared for 70 movies to take a while.
Of course though plugging in your usb drive to the hub should have worked, but there may be an incompatibility with your drive so go the network route.