Re: HD and disk space

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Nice idea, however, you can not change the recording quality of digital
broadcasts received with an HDTV card since they are already encoded.

"Eric The Viking" <stickyerfekkinspam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Try knocking the recording quality down a notch. I did this and
> couldn't tell the difference in quality.
>
> Using the second from highest quality setting allows me to get around
> 50 hours on a 160Gb drive.
>
> For more capacity you could look at multiple drives - set them up as
> dynamic disks in XP and span them. Alternatively you can do like you
> said and use RAID ( JBOD or striping ). The only bummer as you rightly
> point out is that if one of the drives fails you lose the lot. Really
> there is no substitute for traditional backups here - always make sure
> your photos / MP3s are backed up to DVD every now and then, also any
> programs you absolutely do not want to lose should be copied to DVD too.
>


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