Using the Playstation2 as an Editing Medium?

zeropanic asks: "I'm not a person who likes to shell out 100's of dollars on new PC (or Mac!) equipment each year just because it's been "replaced" with something better.. Broke down and got a PS2 for Christmas this year, eyeing the iLink port in front. I know the designed task for the PS2 iLink was to hook up two or more Playstation units together, but could it be adapted to something else? Has anyone ever thought to write some software turn the PS2 into a DV suite? With all camcorders going to digital, someone (like me) who has a PS2 and a Sony handycam could connect up and do some minor editing.. Titles, splicing, etc.. while hooking up a USB HDD for temp storage.. (Poke poke to Sony!)" While this would be an interesting use for the PS2 hardware, why not use a laptop instead?

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You're wrong on almost all points

[Visoblast]

• The 300MHz CPU has 3 times the floating point performance of a 500MHz Pentium 3 -- a 1.4GHz Pentium 4 may be able to keep up.
• RAID isn't needed. I do video editing on a Linux box using single 7200RPM IDE drives with no problems. They provide about 10 times the performance needed by DV.
• A USB drive won't be fast enough, but a Firewire drive could be, and an internal drive probably will be. An internal drive will come with the US version of the Linux kit for the PS2.