To a Videophile, a Mediacorder is a practical and economical solution for those seeking to setup an on-demand-movie server in their home.

The storage requirements of recording, playing and collecting shows is never ending and with HD content, one can easily exceed 30 gigabytes for even a single show.

Currently the most common method is to setup a disk array with multiple terabyte drives. This is only a temporary solution.  As a Videophiles movie collection is never done, and within a month or two a user will have to start deleting shows to make room. With a Mediacorder® you simply pop in another cartridge. Since each cartridge can hold around 80 to 100 shows and are inexpensive enough. A user has potentially unlmited storage space. Currently Mediacorder cartridges are both the largest capacity true removable media device and also the most inexpensive in the world.

With fixed disks, users have to dedicate hardware running all the time simply to call up a movie which may never be viewed for months or years. Not to mention the heat and cost running hard disks Your entire movie collection is always at risk of corruption at all times. With a hard disk lifetime of 2-5 years, it is not if you lose it, but when. And it is nearly impossible to backup a multiple terabyte drive system.

Mediacorder® cartridges are passive devices and can be removed from the drive anytime. They have a rated lifetime of 30 years, and a theoretical limit of 300 years. Cartridges are shock proof, extremely rugged (best in the industry).

Since your collections are kept safe on several different cartridges 80 movies at a time. There  is never a chance of losing everything. And it is easy to make backups, just use an extra cartridge and put it in a safe place. Mediacorder® cartridges are inexpensive enough to do this.

Recordable DVD’s are just not big enough to hold anything except one highly compressed movie. If you have spent time and invested in a good big screen, then this would be counter to your goals.

With a Blu-Ray burner it would take a dual layer disk recording (50 gigs) to even get close to a Mediacorder at 80 Gigs. But as with all optical technologies  they can and do fail during the “Burn” operation. Currently a blank dual layer disc is around 40 dollars. If BD disks follow the same failure rate as a DVD. This would be 1 out of 10 burns will result in a ruined disk. One failed disk and your out the money plus all the data you put on it previously. Unlike optical technology, Mediacorder’s are completely erasable and read/write. Do not require any burning operation, and you can never “Ruin” a cartridge during writing. A Mediacorder cartridge can be completely rewritten as many times as you like.

Assuming we will ignore the fact that a regular BD disk is a write-once technology. Lets predict the future market in 2 years with some math here. A dual layer DVD is currently around $1.40 for 8.5 Gigabytes of storage, This is basically 0.00 a gigabyte. If we extrapolate this to a 50 Gig BD disk, then this would be the expected minimum a BD would go for in the marketplace. Considering you will be losing 1 out of 10 disks in a pack and the short storage life of optical technology optical is neither practical nor economical when your start reaching HD storage requirements.

This is a state of the art digital storage device and is capable of seeking 1,000 times its play speed. A Mediacorder can begin playback of any movie on the cartridge or begin recording to it as fast as a few seconds. You can pop a cartridge in and out and begin playing within 10-15 seconds which is faster than the load time of a Blu-Ray.