"cavelamb himself" wrote in message
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A question for someone who knows...

I have a little over 1000 movies stored on DVD disks.
(It was a mad house when it was all VHS tapes!)
I'd like to have movies to watch at anchor aboard the boat.

It's partly a space issue.
And I don't want to take the disks out anyway.
So...

I checked at Fry's today.
750 Gig USB drive for just under $300.
That would hold about 100 movies.
(guessing an average of 7 Gig or so per title?)

But how to load them is the question...

"play" them on?
I can do this already - but the time factor is a bit
much at 1:1.

But I'm hoping to find some kind of special software to read
them on at much greater speed.

Anybody have a handy clue?

Thanks

Richard


I bought a bunch of soft zippered cases for $4 ea. that hold 50 dicks each.
To convert to hard disk files like .avi, it will take you weeks and weeks of
work even though you will fit them all on a 750. Take the disks! So, you
watch movies on the boat and play computer fishing games at home?