On 14/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What I want to know is where they've found a provider actually<br>transmitting high-definition video at the bitrate they mention: "500GB –<br>enough for up to 30 hours of HD video" which works out to 16 2/3GB per
<br>hour. Converting from GB to GiB, that's 15.5GiB per hour. The highest<br>bitrate channels I see are about 8.5GiB/hour and that's US MPEG-2 as<br>opposed to the UK's MPEG-4 AVC (H.264).<br><br>Mike<br></blockquote>
</div><br>Mike,<br><br>It seems these drives a derivatives of the devices optimised for the digital video recorder market used in the security industry. I think this is where the very high bitrate and "up to 16 streams" statements come from, recording multiple, high resolution surveillance cameras simultaneously.
<br><br>I have found a supplier in Aus that has the Seagate "SV35" drives, they are about ~$20 more expensive than the "standard" drives. I think I might get one and see how it goes, shouldn't be any worse than a standard drive I hope.
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Roo.<br>