Re: Software feature set for automation

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Brett Griffin" <bret.griffin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Has the Sony 400 Disc player menu system gotten any better? I dumped it 2
> years ago because of the lag time for browsing titles.  Once the system
> starts to grab Pictures for each movie it got unbearably slow.  I sold it
> and bought a Meedio HTPC.


I didn't really use it in that mode, nor do much with the keyboard entry.  I
had become used to using direct keyboard entry since I maintained a parallel
database of titles and details in a PC database.  It's still the cheapest
way to sling nearly 4 terabytes of music and video around.  While it's not
as quick as a hard drive, I'll switch when I can pickup a Maxtor 8TB drive
for less than $800.  I'm happy enough with it that when it fills, I'll
consider getting a second one.  Not perfect, but good enough.

By that time, the HD-DVD format wars should be in full swing.  I record a
lot of stuff off the air or cable with a standalone DVD recorder.  Then I
stuff them into the Sony for later viewing and I only need to remember the
current position.  My one big gripe is that it doesn't seem to handle
CD-Text information properly.  Stuff that reads correctly on the 50CD Sony
jukebox doesn't display correctly on the 400 disc changer.  That's a real
piss-off.

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Bobby G.