[rescue] mystery machine

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On 29 Jan 2002, Iggy Drougge wrote:

> >But now I have the problem of having salvaged some 16GB-20GB drives and what
> >I really need is like a huge RAID server for capturing TV shows to MPEG for
> >later burning to CD-R.  :-)      The 20GB drives are too small for a decent
> >CD collection archive to MP3 if you use higher sampling bitrates.

> Personally, I use that odd thing called a video recorder. It's a bit like a
> tape backup drive, but you don't connect it to a computer. And it just
> downloads the movies from some channels, but they're not IRC channels. Since
> it plugs into a cable TV jack, I think it must contain some cable modem, too,
> but it's quite automatic. Very handy.

Ahhh... but tapes are not random access...  Speaking as a TiVo owner, random
access is VERY nice.

--Kurt