Thanks for your replies (so far). A colleague fielded this for me last week when I was out of town and he reported that we would need to host and serve the files locally and the storage space needed would be between 10TB up to 135TB. Yes TB! That's when I became a bit amused. I can't imagine any of you, save Anthony maybe, are streaming locally on this scale. So if you aren't making the whole thing available for instant access do you have someone handling user requests for specific interviews on demand?
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