RE: Video Server, was [OT] Interesting HD article

[Steve B <steve@xxxxxxx>]

Watch TV much then Phil ?


At 11:15 19/04/2002 +0100, you wrote:

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Yeah ... my problem with th= is comes when I want to hold my DVD collection for such Video On Demand stuff ... I have 300 DVDs (approx) and my changer is almost full. I wouldn't want to reduce the quality of the movie by anything noticeable but I guess I could stick with DVDs in the changer for the projector and compress the movies a bit for piping round the house to TVs.
 
Add to that that I would li= ke to archive off programs from TiVo too and find a way to get my 200+ VHS tapes and 80+ Laserdiscs onto there too with as little degradation as possible!...
 
*BIG* storage needed!
 
Phil

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From: Stainton-James, Mark (London) [mailto:s= tainmar@xxxxxxx]=20

Sent: 19 April 2002 10:29

To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Video Server, was [OT] Interesting HD article

Surely by far the easiest way of doing this today is just to use Showshifter or Tivo with no subscription as a video server, that way the hard graft of software development and hardware matching has already been done.

 

A video server in my mind is financially almost there. In disk space terms alone, say VCD (no point doing more for VHS) quality and an average of 120minutes per film I reckon that is about 1Gb per film, or in cash terms =A31 per film for direct access and digital storage.

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Dave McLaughlin [mailto:dave@v8car= lton.com]=20

Sent: 19 April 2002 10:07

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Subject: [ukha_d] Video Server, was [OT] Interesting HD article

 

Hi Phil,

I like the idea of the video server. SWMBO would also like this as I could

get rid of all my hoard of video tapes :o)

I was thinking of this idea with my mate the other day saying we should look

at a way of putting all my video collection onto hard disk and run a server

for it. With the price of disks being reasonably low and a decent setup this

should be possible to build and add to as your collection increases.

Regards

Dave...

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From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx><= /font>

To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>

Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:26 AM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Interesting HD article

> Yeah right, until you get a bargain on the new 1Tb drives ;-)

Has anyone else noticed that it has gone very quiet on the hard disc

front recently? It used to be (or at least seemed to be) that everyone

was pushing for more data and faster access but since Maxtor brought out

the 160Gb (what - six months ago?) there hasn't been another hike in

capacity yet the price of the 160Gb drives is now down to =A31/Gb (ex

VAT).

Usually the price of the "flagship" drives remains high - take the price

of 40/48Gb 2.5" drives as an example, they were =A3380ish until the

release of the 60Gb 2.5" drives and suddenly =A3200 was wiped off their

price overnight.

I just can't help wondering why the price of the 160Gb drives is coming

down without anything to fill that =A3250 - =A3300 "high end" IDE drive

position.

Of course in a couple of years who knows what will be out? I was looking

yesterday and for =A3800 you can get 640Gb of storage - 11 years ago I

paid a similar amount (which was a half price "bargain" as I knew

someone at Fujitsu) for what then the absoloutely biggest drive on the

market - 173Mb! That's an increase of 4,000 times roughly...

...now, when are those 1Tb drives due? I feel a video server coming on!

Phil

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