RE: Can anyone get the connected home right?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do what I do - use several machines ripping to their local drives
simultaneously and then copy up to the server during that bit where you're
sleeping overnight. Four machines will keep you about as busy as you can
handle.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Chris Hunter
> Sent: 21 July 2007 22:39
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Can anyone get the connected home right?
>
>  >Why do you say that ...
>
> 'just that I couldn't see why you were so keen ... but now I can ...
>
> mind you, 8 minutes times 800, equals still quite a lot ... 6400/60 =
> about 5 days  ... must stop SWMBO buying any more ...
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 21 Jul 2007, at 22:10, Phil Harris wrote:
>
> >> Phil -
> >>
> >> brilliant, many thanks ... have to say, I am coming around to
the
> >> idea of such a system ... previously, it seemed to me there
was
> >> nothing wrong with DVDs in a book-case & a home-cinema
... now I
> >> understand what you're after & we're aiming for something
much more
> >> multi-media & multi-screen & about the house
> >
> > Why do you say that? The whole point of my DVDs going onto the
> > server was
> > that then they could be played at any time in any room of the
house
> > and by
> > anyone that was in the house ... that was the whole purpose of
the
> > exercise.
> > I had a DVD changer which was piped around the house and was
> > excellent for
> > use by one person but it couldn't play more than one disc at a
time
> > (obviously) so it wasn't suitable for multiple people in one
> property.
> >
> > If "they" (i.e. someone) was able to produce a DVD
player with good
> > built-in
> > audio and video processing and amplification, built in TV and
radio
> > tuner,
> > proper PVR functionality, streamed media playback, the ability to
> > rip discs
> > to the network etc. then (ignoring price) I'd definitely be
> > interested but
> > since almost every consumer electronics item out there nowadays
> > that is more
> > intelligent than a kettle seems to have firmware issues of some
> > kind then
> > the chances of all that actually working properly is minimal
> > bordering on
> > none-existent. :-D
> >
> >> ... not least because we
> >> seldom can agree on what to watch, and having a separate room
for
> >> watching seems less & less appropriate ...
> >
> > Yup - same here ... I rarely get to watch TV through the AV amp
> > downstairs
> > as Jo is usually watching her soaps and (un)reality TV cr*p so I
> > either end
> > up watching films in bed, in the "computer room" or in
the bath on
> the
> > laptop.
> >
> >> 'quite like the fast reader for DVDs that Kaliedescape seem
to
> >> include ...
> >
> > The ripstation is a great idea but not unique to Kaleidescape ...
I
> > like
> > that they've made the room players now able to rip to the server
> > which is
> > going to make adding new DVDs over time quite convenient. At the
> > moment my
> > "new" PC (Athlon X64 4000, 2Gb DDR, 250Gb SATA,
DVD+/-RW and
> > Windows Vista
> > Business) seems to be ripping DVDs in about 5-8 minutes going by
> > the last
> > batch that I did on Thursday.
> >
> > Phil
>
>
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