03-13-2009, 01:55 AM
Harbour,
True. But, some of the extras are quite cool. That and storage is far less of an issue in this day and age of spacious hard disk drives that can be purchased for a reasonable price. For example, a one terabyte can hold nearly 100 movies in their original ripped non-compressed format. I suspect most people don't have that many DVDs in their collection. Compress the movies with a program like Popcorn or turn them into mpegs with something like Handbrake and a terabyte drive can hold far more movies.
I recently used part of my electronics budget to purchase a one terabyte drive. Originally, it was going to be for backing up my Mac Pro, but I decided the 250 gig drive I ripped out of my old G5 was sufficient for that task. The new terabyte drive is now a media drive upon which I'm storing about 1/3 of my DVDs in their original non-compressed format. I want to see if I can rip a movie via Drive-In, store it on my tower and then stream the content from the tower to my TV via my Popcorn Hour. I'd do this just for giggles and to see if it's feasible. For me, it'll be easier to just connect the media drive directly to the Popcorn Hour and be done with it.
Robert
True. But, some of the extras are quite cool. That and storage is far less of an issue in this day and age of spacious hard disk drives that can be purchased for a reasonable price. For example, a one terabyte can hold nearly 100 movies in their original ripped non-compressed format. I suspect most people don't have that many DVDs in their collection. Compress the movies with a program like Popcorn or turn them into mpegs with something like Handbrake and a terabyte drive can hold far more movies.
I recently used part of my electronics budget to purchase a one terabyte drive. Originally, it was going to be for backing up my Mac Pro, but I decided the 250 gig drive I ripped out of my old G5 was sufficient for that task. The new terabyte drive is now a media drive upon which I'm storing about 1/3 of my DVDs in their original non-compressed format. I want to see if I can rip a movie via Drive-In, store it on my tower and then stream the content from the tower to my TV via my Popcorn Hour. I'd do this just for giggles and to see if it's feasible. For me, it'll be easier to just connect the media drive directly to the Popcorn Hour and be done with it.
Robert