I have been reading what you have all been saying about media centres with interest :)
I used to have a 12 TB raid, Nice LCD TV, high end receiver and speakers. I digitised about half of my DVD's and had those on the raid. One day I sat down and thought have I watched TV or any of those DVD's again and realised I had not SO. Sold the TV, raid and the receiver, still have the speakers but they might go next :) What I now do is: All my movies are on bare drives backed up twice and indexed, if I want a movie I just put the bare drive into the caddy and copy the movie on to the 27" iMac. For TV I do have a USB eye TV stick but not have used that in months either. So we have no TV but 3 Mac's sometime we watch things together but most often not and I find we are all watching something different! Hope that is of interest? Roger On Wed Jul 20 22:32 , Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> sent: > >There goes my thought of upgrading my Mac Mini that runs my Media Centre for >a newer model . >I'm with you Daniel ... I want my optical drive ... so I'll have to stick with >little ole Mac Mini ;-) > >Cheers, >Ronni who will wait to download Lion tomorrow, or the next day, or the day >after :-) >Then I'll install it on another drive, not my work MBP. > >Sent from Ronni's iPad > >On 20/07/2011, at 10:11 PM, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: > >> >> Hi Carlo >> >> Yes, I've been weighing that up with the new Pegasus range of drives. I >> quite like the 4 or 6 bay one. Don't think I can afford it just yet though. >> :) Not sure I could sneak $1600 past the wife :o) lol >> Plus, the exercise of getting off the couch is good. If I have to go back >> and forward then it's helpful. If I just had to sit there,...well,...lol :) >> Mind you,..it's not like I get time anymore to watch that many DVD's. I' >> like the idea of having access to them when working. So I had thought about >> that for a while..... >> >> Plus,...the dread of ripping 600 DVD's is a worry. >> I tell you what,..you rip all my collection for me, and I'll finally agree >> that we don't need a DVD drive. Sounds fair to me :o) >> And the SuperDrive,...just "something else hanging off it". I want it >> "Streamlined". :o) >> >> Oh, and what's this Travel thing you talk about??? Travel? Um,.I think I >> remember that. It's with that thing called,..um,..let me look it up >> again,...oh yeh. Holi-something. Holimay? Holiday? That was it,..holiday. >> :o) >> >> Oh, don't worry about watching the Tour de France. I can tell you who >> wins.... The guy in the red shirt. >> >> Ok, enough rambling for me,...back to work. Data transfer and erasing to >> do,... >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> >> >> On 20/7/11 10:01 PM, "cm" cm200...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> I am up watching the Tour de France on my iPad and keeping abreast of the >>> exciting Apple releases on my MacBook Pro so I find it impossible not to put >>> an oar. :-D >>> >>> One solution would be to get an external Superdrive with the MacMini. They >>> are >>> available on the Apple Store for AUS$89. Alternatively you could get a large >>> capacity external thunderbolt drive and rip your DVD collection. Depending >>> on >>> the resolution you choose you could fit your entire collection on a few >>> terabytes of disk storage. That would mean they would all be searchable in >>> iTunes and you wouldn't even have to get off your couch to select a new >>> movie. >>> Also your movies would be spared degradation of the physical medium. Apart >>> from that when you travel, you could select some favourites from you >>> collection and put them on your iPad or MacBook to watch on the journey. >>> >>> Sorry, but I couldn't let that full toss go through to the keeper. :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carlo >>> >>> On 2011-07-20, at 21:33, Daniel Kerr wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Waaaaaahhhhhh there comes my thought of a Home Media Centre to watch DVD's >>>> etc on. (don't start Carlo - I have a lot of DVDs...over 600+) :op heheh >>>> And I don't want to rip them all to file. Sometimes I want to grab it and >>>> watch it. Maybe I'll get one of the just superseded models. Not like I need >>>> Thunderbolt on it ;o) >>>> I suppose I do have a BluRay player, so I could use that. Hmmm. >>>> >>>> Oh well, back to the drawing board with that idea,.... >>>> Hmmm,.thinking cap on. :) >>>> >>>> Kind regards >>>> Daniel >>>> >>>> >>>> On 20/7/11 9:10 PM, "Jane Griffiths" jjgr...@mac.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I'm surprised to see they've taken the optical drive out of the Mac Mini. >>>>> >>>>> So much new stuff to read about on the Apple store! >>>>> >>>>> And about to download Lion shortly... >>>>> >>>>> cheers >>>>> Jane >>>>> >>>>> On 20/07/2011, at 8:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Australian store is up too >>>>>> >>>>>> New MacMini >>>>>> New MacBook Air >>>>>> New 27" LED Monitor with Thunderbolt and price drop $1199 for 27"! Nice. >>>>>> :) >>>>>> >>>>>> And Lion apparently...lol >>>>>> Oh wait,...nope. Sign in. Click buy. Type in Apple ID. "This item is >>>>>> temporarily unavailable. Please try again later". LOL Error Message. LOL. >>>>>> Oh >>>>>> well, I'll try later then,..lol. >>>>>> >>>>>> Kind regards >>>>>> Daniel >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 20/7/11 8:45 PM, "rkor...@iinet.net.au" rkor...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>>>> Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>>>> Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>>>> Unsubscribe - >>>>>>> wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')">wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> Daniel Kerr >>>>>> MacWizardry >>>>>> >>>>>> Phone: 0414 795 960 >>>>>> Email: >>>>>> Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> **For everything Macintosh** >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>>> Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>>> Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>>> Unsubscribe - >>>>>> wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')">wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Unsubscribe - >>>>> wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')">wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Daniel Kerr >>>> MacWizardry >>>> >>>> Phone: 0414 795 960 >>>> Email: >>>> Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >>>> >>>> >>>> **For everything Macintosh** >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Unsubscribe - >>>> wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')">wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - >>> wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')">wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>> >> >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: >> Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Macintosh** >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - >> wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')">wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > >-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >Unsubscribe - >wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')">wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > >) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
