Re: [A] Infinite continuous logging of 16 TV (A+V) channels

[Hamid_Yazdi]

This is an amazing request! A person on TV station wants to save 16 Channels 24 hours a day!

Don't they have basic Tape recorders in that TV Station?

Anyhow, if money is not an issue, one can buy 16 PC with tons of Gigabytes hard disks and then save them, but
just for the fun, let's calculate how many bytes one would need to save one channel (of video only)
per day

Let say we have 30 frames per seconds, this will be 2.6 Mframe per day
now if each frame is 24 bits and it is 640x480 pixels (pretty low res though)
then one would need 2,388,787,200,000 bytes per day per channel that means
2388 G byte per day!

This is a hell of data and it is video only, not sound.

The answer I guess is the magnetic tape recorder!

Cheers

Have a nice day



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Dr. Hamid R. Yazdi
Federal Mogul
Manufacturing technology
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Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Tel: 734 222 4108