April 3, 200917 yr This week's poll asks about whether you currently store, or plan to store, HD material on your server. I purposely do not distinguish between various types of HD, such as Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD, or rips vs. camcorder footage, but feel free to elaborate in this thread. Thanks!
April 3, 200917 yr Author Yes, I know, not a very imaginative poll. What I'm looking for is some kind of indication of HD use besides Blu-ray rips.
April 3, 200917 yr Not at this point in time. Hoping to get a PS3 sometime soon to play games on and will probably end up buying BD's when I can. So I will eventually start storing BD rips and stuff on the server
April 3, 200917 yr I store files from our Canon HF100 HD camcorder. They're rather large files - and one of the primary reasons I started looking into home server options. Just storage right now - someday will set up a media player so we can access remotely.
April 3, 200917 yr Author I store files from our Canon HF100 HD camcorder. They're rather large files - and one of the primary reasons I started looking into home server options. Just storage right now - someday will set up a media player so we can access remotely. I have that exact camera - not bad for HD. Have you had any issue with Flash memory getting corrupted in that camera?
April 4, 200917 yr I store files from our Canon HF100 HD camcorder. They're rather large files - and one of the primary reasons I started looking into home server options. Just storage right now - someday will set up a media player so we can access remotely. I have that exact camera - not bad for HD. Have you had any issue with Flash memory getting corrupted in that camera? I haven't had to deal with any corrupt flash yet. Have you lost much footage that way?
April 4, 200917 yr YES. I am storing HD movies on my server for easy access. This will prevent my Blu-ray from scratch and finger prints specially those movies for kids. You know kids sometimes watch movies and put it back on the wrong case? Well I don't have to deal with that anymore! I am using PS3 + PS3mediaserver.
April 4, 200917 yr yes Nice elaboration! Sorry was on way out the door to cinema. About 10% disk space is not HD content in the MKV format. unRAID handled the transition from SD to HD flawlessly as expected.
April 4, 200917 yr I store only HD. And that is also the main reason, why i hope the disk limit will be increased soon. The Norco 4020 holds 21 disks (hint!).
April 4, 200917 yr Well since every one so far is saying Yes, someone has to speak up for the others! Some of us (like me!) can't afford anything HD, for now. I imagine the average unRAID user has a little extra money, HTPC's, HD equipment, large TV's, and can buy drives in batches, but there is a small minority who really like the unRAID concept and, perhaps because they work with computers, have a few extra components around, enough to put together a server, for backups and some media storage. I don't know if it's a sizable enough minority to count though.
April 4, 200917 yr I do, but what does that mean? All my HD material is transcoded to MPeg4. Some of my full 1080P material has a lower bitrate than some DVDs.
April 5, 200917 yr Isn't bitrate a more accurate way to measure the effort required to stream something? More important than the number of pixels, if I am correct...
April 30, 200917 yr Yup. HD video from TV, Blu-ray and most importantly backups of my own projects. I use Panasonic's HVX-200 and -170 cameras when I can get my hands on them. All that stuff has to be preserved for the days when I can use it to embarass the brides show everyone "what it was like when..." during my daughters' wedding ceremonies
April 30, 200917 yr Yes, most of my disk stores HD movies in .mkv container. They are being played by an xbmc based htpc.
January 19, 201016 yr Yes, and they range from 700 mb files (HD TV shows) to ~8 GB files (720p movies). I don't bother with 1080p since 720p looks just as good to me.
January 19, 201016 yr Yes, I store some HD content. Mostly it's 720p/1080p MKV Blu-Ray/HD-DVD/HDTV rips.
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