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<blockquote data-quote="Q3aiml" data-source="post: 7462"><p>One could easily (as per my ability) create such a thing with a normal computer. The hardest party really being automating a dvd-rip/copy. Although considering their basic system costs <strong>$27,000</strong> you would merely have to decrypt, screw reencoding. You could easily just buy like $500 dollars worth of hard drives equaling about 1.2TB of space. Even more if you get decent deals. That should easily store around 150 dvd movies, no recompression. Then just put a computer in each room and stream using some nice protocol, windows and nix* have their own, whatever MS calls theirs or NFS.</p><p></p><p>You could assemble a great server for no more than $1,200. The VIA low heat/power C-something (bad memory, sorry) might be enough for clients, which would be great from a noise stand point. I will go high ball and say $1,000 per client, likely much more than needed. Easily beat their price if you just take a little time out of your life, while saving over $24,000 dollars.</p><p></p><p>And for an actual example, right now I keep about ~800GB worth of various media on my FreeBSD computer up in my room. Setup samba to share em'. Computer downstairs on big/widescreen TV with 802.11g. Sit back and pick from over 1,000 TV eps, various Movies, Music Videos, etc... That and it plays GTA3, GTA: VC, NFS2U, ... with a logitech wireless controller. Theirs plays? Shrek DVD Trivia? I guess the point of that rant is that company in particular rips people off to save them a worthless 5 hours of setup out of their day. Bah!</p><p></p><p>Anyways sorry for the rant/tangent, hope something there is of use to you</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Q3aiml, post: 7462"] One could easily (as per my ability) create such a thing with a normal computer. The hardest party really being automating a dvd-rip/copy. Although considering their basic system costs [b]$27,000[/b] you would merely have to decrypt, screw reencoding. You could easily just buy like $500 dollars worth of hard drives equaling about 1.2TB of space. Even more if you get decent deals. That should easily store around 150 dvd movies, no recompression. Then just put a computer in each room and stream using some nice protocol, windows and nix* have their own, whatever MS calls theirs or NFS. You could assemble a great server for no more than $1,200. The VIA low heat/power C-something (bad memory, sorry) might be enough for clients, which would be great from a noise stand point. I will go high ball and say $1,000 per client, likely much more than needed. Easily beat their price if you just take a little time out of your life, while saving over $24,000 dollars. And for an actual example, right now I keep about ~800GB worth of various media on my FreeBSD computer up in my room. Setup samba to share em'. Computer downstairs on big/widescreen TV with 802.11g. Sit back and pick from over 1,000 TV eps, various Movies, Music Videos, etc... That and it plays GTA3, GTA: VC, NFS2U, ... with a logitech wireless controller. Theirs plays? Shrek DVD Trivia? I guess the point of that rant is that company in particular rips people off to save them a worthless 5 hours of setup out of their day. Bah! Anyways sorry for the rant/tangent, hope something there is of use to you [/QUOTE]
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