[ForSale-Swap] Re: [Ham-Computers] USB external HDD's FS

[Marvin Match]

On 25 Nov 2008 at 18:04, Loren Moline  WA7SKT wrote:

> 
> Whatever floats your boat..the more you have on your hardrive the 
> more you have to lose.
> 
> Thats what DVD's are for..to better archive things like movies. How 
> many times in a lifetime will you watch the same movie. Just my 
> opinion...life is too short to watch a movie more than once..
> 
> 
> Loren WA7SKT
> 
> 
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> 
> > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:00:59 +0800
> > From: doc at kd4e.com
> > To: wa0kds at yahoo.com
> > Subject: Re: [ForSale-Swap] Re: [Ham-Computers] USB external HDD's 
> FS
> > CC: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; ham-computers at mailman.qth.net; 
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> >
> > I read elsewhere that folks are hacking big drives into DTV
> > systems, satellite and/or cable, and are storing movies,
> > sports, etc.. on them for later viewing.
> >
> > > I still use 40 GB drives and never file them up but then I am not 
> into
> > > downloading ever video that I see on the WEB. But I sure do have 
> an
> > > awful lot of other programs and lots of pictures. So I am assumin
> > > VIDEO is the only reason for a big drive.
> > >
> > > Ron WA0KDS

3.7 GB here on my MythTV system...

I don't even watch that much TV, but if you're recording HDTV stuff 
over-the-air it eats disk space up in a hurry.

At this point I never ever watch a TV program at the time it's being 
aired, nor does anyone else in my family.

Marvin
KA7TPH