help - loading trouble on video recorder

"raden" wrote in message
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In message , Roderick Stewart
writes
In article , Ivan wrote:

Yes I was thinking that something along the lines of a 4 GB SD card
becoming the equivalent of a much higher quality VHS 4 hour tape, but
with some kind of LP option for maybe 8 hours of standard VHS quality.

No need to assume they'll stop at 4GB.

Try 64 gig ...

I wonder if one of the reasons why large capacity hard drives are now so
ridiculously cheap (around £30.00 for a recently purchased 160 GB SATA) is
because manufacturers now realise that the writings on the wall for
electromechanical devices?


http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32321/135/



--
geoff

In article , Ivan wrote:
Yes I was thinking that something along the lines of a 4 GB SD card*
becoming the equivalent of a much higher quality VHS 4 hour tape, but*
with some kind of LP option for maybe 8 hours of standard VHS quality.

No need to assume they'll stop at 4GB.

Try 64 gig ...

I wonder if one of the reasons why large capacity hard drives are now so*
ridiculously cheap (around £30.00 for a recently purchased 160 GB SATA) is*
because manufacturers now realise that the writings on the wall for*
electromechanical devices?

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32321/135/

I wouldn't be surprised. One of the solid state devices in the picture
appears to be made as a physical slot-in replacement for a standard 2.5"
laptop hard drive. I had no idea they'd been developed this far already. The
price seems to be only a little more than twice what you'd have expected to
pay for a mechanical drive, so I guess it won't be long before solid state is
standard in new computers and the mechanical ones acquire the same value as
CRT monitors.

Whatever next? We might even have truly portable computers that can survive a
1 metre drop test.

Rod.

raden wrote:
In message , Roderick
Stewart writes
In article , Ivan
wrote:
Yes I was thinking that something along the lines of a 4 GB SD card
becoming the equivalent of a much higher quality VHS 4 hour tape,
but with some kind of LP option for maybe 8 hours of standard VHS
quality.

No need to assume they'll stop at 4GB.

Try 64 gig ...

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32321/135/

Those are SSD _not_ SD

Adrian A wrote:

raden wrote:
In message , Roderick
Stewart writes
In article , Ivan
wrote:
Yes I was thinking that something along the lines of a 4 GB SD card
becoming the equivalent of a much higher quality VHS 4 hour tape,
but with some kind of LP option for maybe 8 hours of standard VHS
quality.

No need to assume they'll stop at 4GB.

Try 64 gig ...

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32321/135/

Those are SSD _not_ SD

And given a price of about £700 ish for 32Gb, and slow data transfer
rates, I suspect that there's still a lot of life left in disk drives.

I've no doubt that solid state drives will replace magnetic disk drives
at some point, just not that soon.

For example Toshiba has recently pushed 1.8" SATA disk drives up to
250GB/platter. That opens the way to (say) a 500Gb iPod or to notebooks
with multiple hard disk drives.

"Steve Firth" wrote in message
.. .
Adrian A wrote:

raden wrote:
In message , Roderick
Stewart writes
In article , Ivan
wrote:
Yes I was thinking that something along the lines of a 4 GB SD card
becoming the equivalent of a much higher quality VHS 4 hour tape,
but with some kind of LP option for maybe 8 hours of standard VHS
quality.

No need to assume they'll stop at 4GB.

Try 64 gig ...

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32321/135/

Those are SSD _not_ SD

And given a price of about £700 ish for 32Gb, and slow data transfer
rates, I suspect that there's still a lot of life left in disk drives.

I've no doubt that solid state drives will replace magnetic disk drives
at some point, just not that soon.

For example Toshiba has recently pushed 1.8" SATA disk drives up to
250GB/platter. That opens the way to (say) a 500Gb iPod or to notebooks
with multiple hard disk drives.


However if someone would have told me a mere five years ago just where CRT
TVs would be now I would I have thought that they were talking out of their
backside, although personally I still haven't been persuaded to dump my old
CRT tellys

Huge wrote:

On 2007-09-08, raden wrote:
In message , Huge
writes


And then there's "Hero". My wife and I have watched that 2 or 3 times
since I recorded it. I must burn a DVD.

Burn them all and have done with it

Couldn't watch more than 5 mins of Hero

Barbarian.

Are we talking Jet Li or Dustin Hoffman here?

In message , Ivan
writes

"raden" wrote in message
...
In message , Roderick
Stewart writes
In article , Ivan wrote:

Yes I was thinking that something along the lines of a 4 GB SD card
becoming the equivalent of a much higher quality VHS 4 hour tape,
but with some kind of LP option for maybe 8 hours of standard VHS quality.

No need to assume they'll stop at 4GB.

Try 64 gig ...

I wonder if one of the reasons why large capacity hard drives are now
so ridiculously cheap (around £30.00 for a recently purchased 160 GB
SATA) is because manufacturers now realise that the writings on the
wall for electromechanical devices?

You found somewhere that still sells 160 gig drives ?

My local computer shop doesn't have anything less than 250 gig now

--
geoff

In message , Steve Firth
writes
Huge wrote:

On 2007-09-08, raden wrote:
In message , Huge
writes


And then there's "Hero". My wife and I have watched that 2 or 3 times
since I recorded it. I must burn a DVD.

Burn them all and have done with it

Couldn't watch more than 5 mins of Hero

Barbarian.

Are we talking Jet Li or Dustin Hoffman here?

Its a new sci fi series, granddad

--
geoff

In message , Adrian A
writes
raden wrote:
In message , Roderick
Stewart writes
In article , Ivan
wrote:
Yes I was thinking that something along the lines of a 4 GB SD card
becoming the equivalent of a much higher quality VHS 4 hour tape,
but with some kind of LP option for maybe 8 hours of standard VHS
quality.

No need to assume they'll stop at 4GB.

Try 64 gig ...

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32321/135/

Those are SSD _not_ SD

And ???

Who breeds these bloody pedants ?


--
geoff

Ivan wrote:
"Steve Firth" wrote in message
.. .
Adrian A wrote:

raden wrote:
In message , Roderick
Stewart writes
In article , Ivan
wrote:
Yes I was thinking that something along the lines of a 4 GB SD
card becoming the equivalent of a much higher quality VHS 4 hour
tape, but with some kind of LP option for maybe 8 hours of
standard VHS quality.

No need to assume they'll stop at 4GB.

Try 64 gig ...

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32321/135/

Those are SSD _not_ SD

And given a price of about £700 ish for 32Gb, and slow data transfer
rates, I suspect that there's still a lot of life left in disk
drives. I've no doubt that solid state drives will replace magnetic disk
drives at some point, just not that soon.

For example Toshiba has recently pushed 1.8" SATA disk drives up to
250GB/platter. That opens the way to (say) a 500Gb iPod or to
notebooks with multiple hard disk drives.


However if someone would have told me a mere five years ago just
where CRT TVs would be now I would I have thought that they were
talking out of their backside, although personally I still haven't
been persuaded to dump my old CRT tellys

I also intend to keep my CRT TVs for several more years.