Videos Move From DVDs to Hard Drives
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For those looking for a way to reduce DVD clutter or organize their videos movebetter, storing their videos moveas files on a hard drive instead of on DVDs makes a lot of sense. Now, with devices like the PlayStation 3 that enable people to play video files on any TV, it has finally practical to do so.
Most people now have a lot video, and that can translate into a lot of DVDs when it is burned onto disks. From downloads, home video, movie backups and other sources, keeping all this video on DVDs poses a number of problems.
The DVD first needs to be created which takes time and computer resources. If there is an error in the media, burning process or if the DVD is ever scratched, the whole video can easily become unusable. Also, the video cannot be edited in any way once it is on a disk. Finally, many DVD players will not play a burned disk.
There is also the problem of keeping the DVDs stored and organized. They take up space and can easily become a mess, especially as the collection grows.
The best way around all these problems is to keep the video on a hard drive. As music moves away from CDs and into more flexible file formats, so can video. This offers many advantages.
It is easier to keep videos moveorganized on a hard drive, and a single drive does not take as much space. With a hard drive, videos moveare all in one compact place. To keep them in order, people only need to make folders to put the videos moveinto an organizational style of their choice. Once the video is done playing, there is no need to put it away either.
When people travel, they can easily take as many videos moveas they want or even their entire collections. There is no need to decide which DVDs or lug them around. They can simply transfer them all to their computer or take them on a hard drive.
As storage costs continue to drop, the cost of hard drive storage is very reasonable.
Playback is less of a problem with video files too. Most any computer can be configured to play almost any video file type from anywhere.
Of course, most people want to watch their video from their TVs and not from a computer. Fortunately, this has become easy to do.
Devices like Popcorn Hour that can be hooked to any TV have USB ports into which a hard drive can be connected to for video playback. Also, the PlayStation 3 now supports a wide selection of video formats. All one needs to do is connect their hard drive to the PlayStation and select the video they want to play from the menu.
It is likely that options will continue to expand in the future and videos movewill increasingly be stored on drives rather than on disks.
