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Christopher L. Estep
Frank said:
Usually the PC is not *just* used by Joe, but by Jane (recipes and other
items, especially if she is running a home-based business) and by JoJo (son
currently in high school) for everything from English essays to
science/math/World History classwork/hgih-school or even collegiate-level CS
(especially if he is in the local Cisco Academy).
If you use your PC as a TiVO, capturing TV also chews up serious space (if
you want to do *any* quality capturing, you need to capture to either MPEG-4
with Xvid or Divx (somewhat lossy) or MPEG-2 (lossless but outputs *HUGE*
files)). In fact, one of the biggest recently-solved problems with
capturing to MPEG-2 was finding a removable medium capacious enough to store
the files offline natively (a one-hour MPEG-2 will more than fill a CD-R).
Now enter the multiformat DVD burner. Joe (or more likely JoJo) can burn
two hours of captures to DVD in less than 30 minutes and view them on the
DVD player in the family room (or any other DVD player). I am looking at
the larger-sized SATA drives for precisely this reason.
Christopher L. Estep