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There have been various rumblings that Apple has plans to eventually incorporate something along the lines of an iTunes-esq film service. Personally do not see the concept taking off until broadband is more widely available. Cannot fathom downloading DVD quality films on a norrowband connection. Even with various encoding methods the files would still be incredibly large.
With the cost of storage going down, and capacity rising, I don’t think we’ll have to wait long before DVDs themselves are outmoded. Imagine going to a Blockbuster kiosk instead of a store, docking your terabyte+ storage device, and picking a couple of movies to watch? The download takes less time than all the wandering around you might do in a store, and you will never have to worry about a movie not being available. Bandwidth is not much of an issue, or at least won’t be. What will be an issue is that you will have to buy to replace your “old” DVD player and use the new “Sony TeraBetaMax” player.
Interesting. I can see the kiosk coming into play but not anywhere in the near future. People still use VHS players because they have a ton of VHS movies and they’re comfortable with it. The price of DVD’s has slowly dropped and I really don’t think a lot of people are in the mood to go buy another player to watch movies on.
I’m trying to put together a Mac to act as a video juke box for my DVD collection. The biggest problem is that I need about 1 TB of storage for what I already have. The new iMac looks like it’d do the trick; it has video out, 5.1 sound out but is constricted with storage. Yes, I can hook up some drives via Firewire but would prefer everything in one box.
For now, I’m going to build up a G4 tower and see what I can do. Anyone know how to make use of the small color monitor in a Mac Color Classic? It’s either that or some kind of 8″ lcd screen. Maybe I can take apart a PB Duo.
I would think if money is not an issue, but it may be. You should get a Mac Xserve G5 rackmount server and pair it with the rackmount Raid array(upgradable to 3.5Tb) with 2Gb fibre channel interface. That would make an awesome digital video server. Just add drives when you need them 250Gb @ a time 🙂
[quote]I’m trying to put together a Mac to act as a video juke box for my DVD collection. The biggest problem is that I need about 1 TB of storage for what I already have. The new iMac looks like it’d do the trick; it has video out, 5.1 sound out but is constricted with storage. Yes, I can hook up some drives via Firewire but would prefer everything in one box.
For now, I’m going to build up a G4 tower and see what I can do. Anyone know how to make use of the small color monitor in a Mac Color Classic? It’s either that or some kind of 8″³ lcd screen. Maybe I can take apart a PB Duo.
Comment by Gilmoure “” Tuesday September 28, 2004 @ 10:45 am[/quote]