DVD Player for Apple TV

Recently have thrown out anything that had to do with MS as I wanted to upgrade to a Multi-media environment and got myself the latest Imac together with the Apple TV. Even rewired the complete home to Ethernet ( WIFI is fine for internet but really lacks the perfomance and reliability for streaming ). Overall very impressed with the change and understand why Apple is doing well.
The ironic thing now is that Apple TV works fine for music and photo's ( the wife loves it ) but falls a bit short on the TV part. Getting movies over the internet is not quite an option yet in Belgium as it will consume my monthly budget ( 20Gbps ) in less then a few days instead of a month, at least when one does not want to compromise on the digital quality.
The idea was to simplify the whole audio/video setup ( gone are the days of CD players, Tuners and DVD players ) and the objective is only to have the audio amplifier, flatscreen TV and of course AppleTV.
Question now is, what do I do when the wife goes to the video store around the corner and gets a video for one of these cosy nights. I was somewhat assuming that I could slot this DVD into the iMac and stream it directly over the home ethernet network to the Apple TV. Turns out that after a regular google, that I have to go to a lengthy ripping process before I can stream it or have to watch it directly on the iMac using DVD player ( really ruins the cosy part of the night )
Would love to hear any suggestions on this topic. Ideally I would like to stream movies on apple TV directly on the DVD drive of the iMac.
P.S: If we get this working, my brother will buy the same set-up.

Sorry to have to tell you: This kind of coziness needs some planning ahead. Watch the movie today that you ripped yesterday. There's no way to stream DVDs to ATV.
And for completeness: You're not supposed to rip rental DVDs (though I'm not overly familiar with Belgian law). However I don't think anyone will prosecute you if you rip the DVD for one-time viewing ...

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