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 either cheap as hell, or insane.

[Wakko Warner]

A hard-disk-less machine with a 300-something MHz CPU being used as a DV editing workstation simply because it has a Firewire port? People buy RAID cards for their NLE machines because single drives aren't even fast enough sometimes for digital video editing, and somehow a USB drive will be sufficient?

What the hell?? No offense, but this has got to be the worst Ask Slashdot ever.

- A.P.