[vdr] Re: VDR feature request

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:34:50AM +0100, Emil Naepflein wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:25:23 +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > I know why my recordings lasts only some minutes/hours. I cut them to my
> > "workstation" and burn the recordings to DVD-R. This way you only loose
> > the recordings of a single disk, if it is destroyed.
> > 
> > Btw. The EUR per Gigabyte (excluding the burner) is better than the
> > price for HDD-space! 
> 
> HD space currently costs about 1.5 EUR/GB and is dropping to 1 EUR/GB.
> DVD-R is cheaper per GB, but as normally there is only space for one
> recording the costs per recording are about equal.

I record nearly only series from Premiere. For the "normal" 45 minutes
series 4 episodes fit on one DVD-R. So i "only" needed e.g. 43 DVD-Rs
for the whole Voyager-Series (172 episodes).

> > Ok it isn't as comfortable as having direct access
> 
> That's important for me because the server is in the basement. Going
> down for putting a new DVD in is very inconvienient. May be a changer
> would do the trick.

I have several hundred episods of different series, having direct access
would be maximal uncomfortable. (Or you need a very deep tree) ;-)

> > to the recordings but i don't have 1 TB of disc space to store all of my
> > recordings
> 
> If you would have invested the money for the burner and the DVD-R discs
> you would have 1 TB. ;-)

With the "original" price yes. 800 EUR for the burner and > 10 EUR per
DVD-R when i began.

With current prices. (around 350 EUR for the burner and around 3.90 EUR
per DVD-R) there break even point is reached quite fast.

Let alone the "other" factors. Once burned a DVD-Rs don't burn enery
constantly. ;-)

200 DVD-Rs cause much less noise than the same amount of HDD-Space ...
;-)

> > Currently i have around 1 TB of recordings (>200 DVD-Rs) and space for
> > about 3 TB. (=720 slots for Jewelcases.)
> > 
> > Excluding the burner the "EUR per month" is better too. You only have to
> > buy the amount of DVD-Rs you currently need.
> 
> I think the total cost currently is pretty equal. Using harddisk has the
> disadvantage of losing many recordings if something goes wrong. But it
> has the advantage to have all recordings online. I may use DVD-R in the
> future.

It's purely a matter of personal taste. I want my recordings "safe". (In
sense of "failsafe") DVD-Rs are much safer in this aspect which was my
personal "kill criteria" for choosing the more costly DVD-R solution
around 1,5 years ago (See the prices above)




Bis denn

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