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WORM Jukebox
http://www.cddimensions.com/Blu-ray-Libraries/products/192/
I think one could DIY a par + WORM jukebox with a waaay off-site tape storage and rest easy.
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DVD Jukeboxes
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DVD Jukeboxes
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Sounds like a good idea, but...
...very complicated to pull off. CDs do not hold that much time, only a little over an hour. The CD could only have the headlining band on it, and they usually play 90 minutes, sometimes a little less, many times a lot more. They'd have to cut a few songs off or split it up into multiple CDs. Having the CDs prepared 5 minutes after the concert sounds impossible. But they could probably be ready to copy the CDs after a customer orders one. So how would they do it? Most likely they'd have to have a feed running directly from the soundboard to a PC, where the whole concert could be stored on the HD. I'm not sure exactly how that would work, but it could probably be done. They'd have to split the songs up into separate files so they could pick and choose which ones to delete. Then when the concert's over they'd have to burn one (or several) master CDs that they can use to make copies of. Maybe they can use one of these. I think those devices even let you make CDs directly from the HD. But it says they can only make 18 discs per hour, so they'd have to bring in several of them. The resulting CDs may have decent sound quality, but would probably be far below what you'd expect from something you buy at the store, since they spent zero time polishing it up for release. If they're planning on recording a Britney Spears show with 40,000 people, they'd have to bring in a shitload of these things or people will be waiting hours for their discs. Could it be done? Probably. But not without compromises in quality, and it certainly wouldn't be ready in 5 minutes, and it wouldn't contain the entire concert.
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Re:Nice backup tool
could we encrypt our own movies to be played in a normal DVD player?
No. To do oneoff DVD-Videos you need something like the Pioneer DVD-R machines, which were running between $5-15K last I checked.
DVD-RAMs are phase change devices with 2.6 GB per side. There are Typ1 and Typ2. Typ1 you cannot take aout auf the catridge, but Typ2 you can take out and play with DVD-ROMs (e.g. 8253 from Panasonic). But you cannot play them in DVD-Video consumer players.
DVD+RW is a mutually incompatible phase change device, there are mutterings about it possibly being compatible with DVD-Video. We shall see.
Fuckin' "standards", eh?