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 £1 per film for direct access and digital
storage.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McLaughlin
[mailto:dave@xxxxxxx]
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...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Harris"
<phil@xxxxxxx>
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 £1/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 £380ish until the
release of the 60Gb 2.5" drives and
suddenly
£200 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 £250 - £300
"high end" IDE drive
position.
Of course in a couple of years who knows what
will
be out? I was looking
yesterday and for £800 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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