RE: [OT] DVD Writers & now DVD jukebox

["Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>]

> -----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
>
Or 25p if you use an 800Mb CD-R

Tim.