snarlydwarf;416427 Wrote: > Very different: to the point I don't see a reason to bother with > computer video storage. > > How often do I watch a given movie? I wonder at myself sometimes as to > why I buy movies instead of renting: renting is almost surely a better > bargain... > > How often would I have 'random play' or anything like it that would > need good indexing and 'always online' availablility. Knowing roughly > where the cd is seems to work pretty well. > > Would I lose DVD navigation features? For some discs this would > destroy them (say Icky Flix or the Commercial DVD by The Residents...). > > I just don't see what computer-stored video gives you that a DVD > doesn't... in fact, I see drawbacks when the menu structure is stripped > out.
I've got a 1TB NAS which aside from holding about 50 gigs of mp3s for my music collection, is mostly filled up with video files that I watch through my PS3 or chipped Xbox(es) over the network. It's incredibly handy being able to remotely kick off a download and come home to have it ready on the NAS for watching. I use the Twonkyvision uPnP server that came with the NAS to serve the video. It's also great to have entire series of TV shows available for viewing any time you like though I do have to admit it's not like any individual show gets watched repeatedly in a short space of time. I do like to keep archives of all my video though and having them on a large HDD (as opposed to dozens of optical discs) is perfect especially as in this configuration is gives me instant-access to any material. However, I don't think we need a Squeezebox/Squeezecenter for video as existing uPnP servers are good enough for the task. The Squeezebox system excels for audio and isn't as readily adaptable for video. -- slimfast ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62455 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
