Posted by Jeffery S. Jones on 10/22/05 18:00

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:57:09 GMT, Who Dat? <Who Dat@ncat.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:03:31 -0500, Jeffery S. Jones
><jeffsj@execpc.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:06:33 GMT, Who Dat? <Who Dat@ncat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:51:10 -0500, Jeffery S. Jones
>>><jeffsj@execpc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:59:24 -0400, "Mike Kujbida"
>>>><kujfamNoSpam@xplornet.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Who Dat? wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:57:40 -0500, "Ken Maltby"
>>>>>> <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Who Dat?" <Who Dat@ncat.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:ja63l1teeqibtcmkc8lvitct5eg50e6v1i@4ax.com...
>>>>>>>> Is there such a device that can hold at least 100 dvd disks and
>>>>>>>> read/play them as well and can attach to a PC via a USB connection?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are various External Drive enclosures for USB2, a
>>>>>>> couple of those with 300GB drives should handle that much.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Check out www.buffalotech.com and www.provantage.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Luck;
>>>>>>> Ken
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks I am aware of that however I would prefer the ability to keep
>>>>>> everything on disk and read or play the dvd via the device. Keeping
>>>>>> everything on a dvd is the main goal.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Do a Google search on "DVD jukebox" and you'll find several links.
>>>>>I don't think you'll like some of the prices though :-(
>>>>
>>>>http://shop.store.yahoo.com/document-capture-scanners/pidvdcdjupis.html
>>>>
>>>> Not the only one, but if you want reliability it isn't cheap :-(
>>>>
>>>> We looked into DVD and decided that it was so much cheaper and more
>>>>convenient to go to hard drive playback, that getting a mechanical DVD
>>>>player, subject to loading delays and breakdowns, was simply not worth
>>>>the effort. Hard drives are dirt cheap now.
>>>
>>>I am talking about something like this, except it must be able to play
>>>CD's and DVD's data, music movies ect...
>>>Here is a guide to the unit I have been talking about...
>>>
>>>http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/200504211/
>>
>> The Pioneer DRM-3000 will do that. Holds 300 disks, and acts like
>>a supersized DVD drive. The price tag on it is the only drawback, but
>>I am unaware of an equivalently functional DVD multidisk drive at a
>>lower price. There are some somewhat cheaper models, but nothing
>>which is remotely cost-competitive with hard drive playback.
>
>Can the Pioneer be connected to a PC like the above model via usb???

No, it uses SCSI. If you can afford the unit, the price of a SCSI
interface would be no concern.

More info from Pioneer:
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/product/detail/0,,2076_17573252_38126_tab=B,00.html?compName=PNA_ProductDetailComponent

As I said, we looked into such things and decided that copying the
DVDs (or VCDs or audio CDs) to hard drive for playback would be much
cheaper. OTOH, we were already looking for hard drive playback
anyway. Adding a DVD jukebox to a hard drive based system easily
doubles the cost or more, and copying DVDs to the hard drive is pretty
fast and easy.
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