you fall into a very small minority. I too prefer google video, mainly because you can download it (granted, have to do it through the player--not counting 3rd party apps) and it edges out youtube on quality when streamed (downloaded versions are exact to what I uploaded, so that's nice).
youtube has a much much better delivery system though. why can't I just have a page of thumbnails of videos from a certain user? i don't want it scrunched on side. navigation is terrible for google.
and flash is nice because everyone will have it installed for the most part. has anyone seen stage6? I don't like the fact it's divx only, and another plugin that most people won't have... but quality is very very nice.
dvd backup is terrible IMO. A stack of dvds is cheap, yes... but I've had quite a few DVD's fail on me. And they aren't even old. All TY media too, from the old pioneer 2x burner, to it's bigger 4x brother, to my current NEC drive (can't remember the model numbers off hand). All burned w/ verify on.
Actually, I shouldn't say fail, just very difficult to read sometimes. I had to recopy everything burned w/ my 2x pioneer because it was the only drive of the three I listed that would read them. Worked fine on a friends lite-on as well, but not at all on the 4x pioneer.
with that said, I too for now only have multiple copies of digital photo's, documents, financial records, etc, etc. MP3's to an extent... I value the time I had to go through to have that all done. I'm moving all my media to a central server.. and want to back it up.. just because really.. but right now, all I have is raid 5 and DVD's. I'm not sure I'm even going to do raid 5 now because it may not be worth the effort
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you fall into a very small minority. I too prefer google video, mainly because you can download it (granted, have to do it through the player--not counting 3rd party apps) and it edges out youtube on quality when streamed (downloaded versions are exact to what I uploaded, so that's nice).
youtube has a much much better delivery system though. why can't I just have a page of thumbnails of videos from a certain user? i don't want it scrunched on side. navigation is terrible for google.
and flash is nice because everyone will have it installed for the most part. has anyone seen stage6? I don't like the fact it's divx only, and another plugin that most people won't have... but quality is very very nice.
dvd backup is terrible IMO. A stack of dvds is cheap, yes... but I've had quite a few DVD's fail on me. And they aren't even old. All TY media too, from the old pioneer 2x burner, to it's bigger 4x brother, to my current NEC drive (can't remember the model numbers off hand). All burned w/ verify on. Actually, I shouldn't say fail, just very difficult to read sometimes. I had to recopy everything burned w/ my 2x pioneer because it was the only drive of the three I listed that would read them. Worked fine on a friends lite-on as well, but not at all on the 4x pioneer. with that said, I too for now only have multiple copies of digital photo's, documents, financial records, etc, etc. MP3's to an extent... I value the time I had to go through to have that all done. I'm moving all my media to a central server.. and want to back it up.. just because really.. but right now, all I have is raid 5 and DVD's. I'm not sure I'm even going to do raid 5 now because it may not be worth the effort
http://openfiler.org/ ? I'm about to give this a shot