DVD as backup to avoid delete button WAS: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...

[Lane Schwartz]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:55:27 -0800 (PST), Michael Miyabara-McCaskey
<mykarz at miyabara.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Paul Kidwell wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael
> > >
> > > After you have finished the what appears to be a monumental set of tasks
> > > to get the DVDs authored...
> > >
> > > How to you access them? Do you just store them on the shelf?
> > >
> > > I myself was hoping for a solution to use cheap off the shelf Sony DVD
> > > jukebox - 400 DVD (1.56TB capacity - for $300)... that could be fed into
> > > the Myth backend, somehow... but haven't seen any response on a previous
> > > thread.
> >
> > I have a component video system. TV is set to video input (don't use tuner in
> > TV) I have a  5.1 surround system receiver and have my Myth box set as video
> > input 1, my VCR as video input 2, and have a Sony DVD changer (only 200 disk
> > though) plugged into the DVD input.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> Since I see that the original thread has been hijacked into create ways to
> recover the data that was lost...
> 
> It seemed like many people were advocating transfering files to DVD, with
> perhaps the preferred method as fully authored DVDs.
> 
> This brings up the issue I would love to know the answer to in mass which
> is...
> 
> Are you doing:
> 
> 1. Did you buy a $1k to $8k DVD Jukebox w/FireWire connect
> (http://www.powerfile.com/) to your Mythbackend as pure mythfiles? (not
> using fully authored DVDs)
> 
> 2. Did you putting the new DVD on the shelf, and put it into your DVD
> player (set-top or mythtv frontend) to replay the disk?
> 
> 3. Did you buy an off the shelf DVD jukebox (Sony 200 or 400 capacity)?
> Paul below says he did a direct connect to the TV input... Has anyone got
> this setup working to the Myth Backend with/any existing Myth plugin?
> 
> -Michael

Number 2 for me. 

I burn shows to standard video DVDs, put them in a case, and then play
them as standard DVDs when I want to watch them.

-Lane

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