Re: DVD as backup to avoid delete button WAS: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...

2005-01-15 Thread Lane Schwartz 
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:55:27 -0800 (PST), Michael Miyabara-McCaskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Paul Kidwell wrote:
 
   -Original Message-
   From: Michael
  
   After you have finished the what appears to be a monumental set of tasks
   to get the DVDs authored...
  
   How to you access them? Do you just store them on the shelf?
  
   I myself was hoping for a solution to use cheap off the shelf Sony DVD
   jukebox - 400 DVD (1.56TB capacity - for $300)... that could be fed into
   the Myth backend, somehow... but haven't seen any response on a previous
   thread.
 
  I have a component video system. TV is set to video input (don't use tuner 
  in
  TV) I have a  5.1 surround system receiver and have my Myth box set as video
  input 1, my VCR as video input 2, and have a Sony DVD changer (only 200 disk
  though) plugged into the DVD input.
 
  Paul
 
 
 Since I see that the original thread has been hijacked into create ways to
 recover the data that was lost...
 
 It seemed like many people were advocating transfering files to DVD, with
 perhaps the preferred method as fully authored DVDs.
 
 This brings up the issue I would love to know the answer to in mass which
 is...
 
 Are you doing:
 
 1. Did you buy a $1k to $8k DVD Jukebox w/FireWire connect
 (http://www.powerfile.com/) to your Mythbackend as pure mythfiles? (not
 using fully authored DVDs)
 
 2. Did you putting the new DVD on the shelf, and put it into your DVD
 player (set-top or mythtv frontend) to replay the disk?
 
 3. Did you buy an off the shelf DVD jukebox (Sony 200 or 400 capacity)?
 Paul below says he did a direct connect to the TV input... Has anyone got
 this setup working to the Myth Backend with/any existing Myth plugin?
 
 -Michael

Number 2 for me. 

I burn shows to standard video DVDs, put them in a case, and then play
them as standard DVDs when I want to watch them.

-Lane

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Re: DVD as backup to avoid delete button WAS: [mythtv-users] What

2005-01-15 Thread Chuck Rice 
Are you doing:
1. Did you buy a $1k to $8k DVD Jukebox w/FireWire connect
(http://www.powerfile.com/) to your Mythbackend as pure mythfiles? (not
using fully authored DVDs)
I am doing the above. I bought 2 empty, 8-slot FireWire towers:
http://www.firewiremax.com/fire-wire-1394-ilink/lcdreen.html
Then I buy IDE drives and plug them in as I need them. I try to get 
at least 250GB drives, thought lately I have been getting the 400GB. 
Nice thing about these is that as drives get larger, you can start 
with all the old drives you have laying around, then easily replace 
your smallest drives with the latest and greatest as need and money 
require. It is also nice to not pay for the whole thing at once. Buy 
a new drive whenever you run out of space and just add it. -Chuck-


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