I also imagine that, akin to CD and DVD, to write HD-DVD-RW media will take (at least) twice as long? Surely for some time will be a consideration, especially with such large media.
Looking forward to owning one in one or two years.
Incidentally, anyone want to buy my 1x SCSI Caddy CD burner?
I receive spam faxes from Dell every week or so. I've faxed them back requests to their "opt out" number, but funnily it's always engaged.
Dell sell servers (in Australia, at least) for approximately AU$1000, with ECC RAM and such. OS is *optional*.
Granted I run 32-bit systems, and neglected to mention that codecs were required, but I've had very few difficulty getting aforementioned players to play WMV with binary codecs.
In fact, these days, I don't recall xine/mplayer ever not working out of the box from most package-manager-built installs.
For the sake of completeness, though, here are links to the binary codecs:
This is a wee bitty redundant, but the figures might be interesting:
One of my clients recently looked into a PABX/VoIP solution for their two very small offices. They required only 10 IP phones and two gatekeepers.
Samsung's quotation was ~AU$14,000; Nortel's was ~AU$18,000. [AU$1 ~= US$0.70]
These were proprietary systems with weak licensing (Nortel: 32 license minimum for voicemail, etc.), limitations (Samsung: only four calls simultaneously!)
Another mob wanted $8000 for just the IP phones necessary, with ongoing (extortionate) costs for using their ISP, their VoIP provider, and their gatekeeper.
My quoted Asterisk solution will be less than AU$6000 for 2 servers, ISDN/PSTN cards, quality IP phones, no licensing, et cetera. Plus the features on offer are more numerous and 100 times more customisable.
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I also imagine that, akin to CD and DVD, to write HD-DVD-RW media will take (at least) twice as long?
Surely for some time will be a consideration, especially with such large media.
Looking forward to owning one in one or two years.
Incidentally, anyone want to buy my 1x SCSI Caddy CD burner?
I receive spam faxes from Dell every week or so. I've faxed them back requests to their "opt out" number, but funnily it's always engaged. Dell sell servers (in Australia, at least) for approximately AU$1000, with ECC RAM and such. OS is *optional*.
Granted I run 32-bit systems, and neglected to mention that codecs were required, but I've had very few difficulty getting aforementioned players to play WMV with binary codecs.
In fact, these days, I don't recall xine/mplayer ever not working out of the box from most package-manager-built installs.
For the sake of completeness, though, here are links to the binary codecs:
win32 codecs (avi/wmv/wma)
1. mplayer
2. xine
Not that tough, really, now is it?
This is a wee bitty redundant, but the figures might be interesting:
One of my clients recently looked into a PABX/VoIP solution for their two very small offices. They required only 10 IP phones and two gatekeepers.
Samsung's quotation was ~AU$14,000; Nortel's was ~AU$18,000. [AU$1 ~= US$0.70]
These were proprietary systems with weak licensing (Nortel: 32 license minimum for voicemail, etc.), limitations (Samsung: only four calls simultaneously!)
Another mob wanted $8000 for just the IP phones necessary, with ongoing (extortionate) costs for using their ISP, their VoIP provider, and their gatekeeper.
My quoted Asterisk solution will be less than AU$6000 for 2 servers, ISDN/PSTN cards, quality IP phones, no licensing, et cetera. Plus the features on offer are more numerous and 100 times more customisable.
Why would you bother with anything else?
My AU$0.02
Asterisk -- 'nuff said.