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HDTV On Your PC And Hard Drive
Jack Kolesar writes: "So, you want to watch HDTV but you don't want to shell out thousands of dollars for a new television. Well, AMDPower.com has a review of the AccessDTV HDTV tuner card. Not only does it let you watch HDTV, but you can also record it on your harddrive. Yes, the full 19.4Mbps stream of 8VSB is stored in raw format. Now, if somebody out there could just make some linux drivers for it ..."
Oh please!!! FP?
Could you imagine a beowulf cluster of HDTVs? It would be so awesome that even the theme song to the new Enterprise show would sound cool...
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
I think in the future we're going to see a move in volatile memory.
Instead of things being written directly to Harddrives, etc. I think we're going into the error of solid state memory.
Yes, this will lead to big problems if there are power outages etc. but I think this will all be "built in".
The only way this quick retrival is possible is through solid-state solutions...
The current videos can be stored on the solid state memory as they are transferred to large DB on very fast RAID'ed systems. The index, however, will remain in the solid state memory. This will allow for quick access, etc.
but.... we all know how expensive that is, or will be.
So I think until solid-state solutions are affordable, you're not going to have a quick indexing solution.
There comes a point in time where our physical hardware (HD's etc.) can't keep up with the processing bandwidth (sufficiently, that is) and we're going to need solid state solutions to keep up with those speeds.
This is one of those instances.
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"It's the opposite of that."
That reminds me of a recent thought I've had. If/when the WTC gets rebuilt, it has all the requirements to become the most haunted building in the world. Thousands of restless souls could be wandering the halls and stairwells. Spooky stuff indeed.
YES! & now it's Class C, drugs all around!
Although I think it's time to feed all these whingy anti-dope campaigners some nice brownies. If nothing else, it'll shut them the fuck up!
The ghostbusters are located in New York, aren't they ?
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Do they teach you good manners in video school?