Posted by Gene on 02/09/07 00:15

Sorry, but I still do not understand how anyone could store my data
as cheaply as I can. That would assume that I was willing to
allow someone to view my family movies - which I would NEVER do.

As of today, my total out-of-pocket cost to store a gigabyte of data
is ~ six cents/US ($0.06). That is on a very high quality DVD-R,
single. I can't even conceive of someone providing me with 20 years of
free storage space (on hard drives?) for a total of $0.06/US. Uploading
A/V data in this volume would be a nightmare, even with a T1. I just
shot 4.5 hours of MiniDV at the grandkids school program earlier
today. I firmly believe that it will be a LOT easier for me to simply rewind
the three 1.5hr tapes and convert over to three DVD-Rs (VOBs) than to
upload that much data to the hard drive(s) of an online service. That's
> 50GB of data to upload. Really can't see the logic in doing that. I can
> burn
the three 4.7GB DVD-Rs (plus three more dupes as backup) while I'm
responding
to email, etc. - all the DVD burning is done in the background. When the
burning
is complete, I just rewind the MiniDV (or D8) tapes, and shoot another
1.5hrs
and repeat the process again, and again, ... been doing this for some time
now.

Gene





"Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Gene wrote:
>> Thanks, Rick.
>>
>> I guess I do not understand what you said in #2 ?
>>
>> The internet is just a collection of nodes (hard drives, etc.)
>> connected by various telephone, satellite, etc. - it's simply
>> an expansion of the university / NASA thing that started
>> years ago. Are you saying that I should spread my family
>> videos over this network of nodes? Really do not think that I want
>> complete strangers looking at my family A/Vs for any reason.
>>
>> If that is not what you are saying, then what specific random
>> access media do you suggest that I go out and purchase today?
>
> There are internet services that store your data - to varying degrees of
> confidentiality and cost (no privacy: free on youtube!) Your ISP probably
> offerssome FTP storage space (couple of gig) and many groups will sell you
> more. I don't have further specifics, but what I'm saying is that personal
> ownership of 'media' is increasingly unnecessary and expensive.
>
>

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