[plug] Hardware question

[Michael Holland]

2009/12/30 Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com>:

> hmmm what i've been reading on wikipedia doesn't seem to think so...

thats a bit vague. which bit?


>> By why recode? Unless you have a monster DVD collection, you should just
>> rip it as the original mpeg2, and lose no quality.
>
> Quality loss is minimal to us

Until there are trees or water and you get horrid blockiness.

> Original mpeg2 files would be huge wouldn't they?

Maybe 6GB. So you can store 150 of them per TB.

> I only have about 1TB of storage for this purpose (mirrored 2 TB)

only a TB, eh? Kids are spoilt today. :-)