RE: [OT] DVD Writers & now DVD jukebox

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

Yep...this is being done (mostly with the Divx codec).

Even the cost of storing the original .VOB files is now under the price of
the original DVD.  Someone on this list used to post a quartly update of
the
£/Gig comparison for this very reason.

M.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Comm Jo [mailto:commjo2@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 September 2001 21:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] DVD Writers & now DVD jukebox
>
>
> >
> >needs to be -RW or +RW to work in a home player (player must
support it
> >obviously)
> >
> >Paul
> >
>
>
> SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC
>
> I understand that MPEG4 encoding now works well as a colleague
> has managed
> to convert a DVD film to MPEG4 format and then store on his hard
> disk - he
> reckons a 2 hour film takes up about 700MB of Hard disk space - and
the
> quality is near-DVD.
>
> So if u can pipe the output from your PC to a TV in your house
> and control
> the PC from that room (infra red mouse and keyboard) you can set
> yourself up
> with a DVD jukebox - this is possible in theory - I am VERY new
> to HA and so
> dont have a clue if this is possible in practice - anyone tried it ?
>
> With the cost of Hard disks around £2.10 per megabyte - cost of
storing 1
> MPEG4 movie is around £1.80 - not bad folks ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Umar
>
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