| Seagate promises a video library on a hard disc |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 19 September 2006 | |
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The company said that a 2.5TB hard drive would be capable of storing 41,650 hours of music, 800,000 digital photographs, 4,000 hours of digital video or 1,250 video games. With capacities like that it would likely make for sense for providers of 'static' bandwidth-intensive content such as movies an games to encode large collections onto a hard drive and provide an interactive interface enabling consumers to select, pay for and then access the content of their choice rather than downloading it on-demand over the Internet. Such a solution could be particularly attractive in developing nations where broadband services with the bandwidth needed to deliver video are both scarce and expensive. The up-front cost of the hard drive could be minimised by requiring the customer to commit, for example, to a certain monthly spend buying access to movies.{moscomment}
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