Gonk wrote:
I think that even with the plummetting cost of hard drives we're not quite there yet for storing complete movie libraries

That is correct for movies. Perhaps OUTLAWS will consider such a unit for CD & DVD storage. Random access is great.

Movies aside, I use a hard drive recorder for archiving as well as listening to music. I can put approximately 104 hours of redbook stereo on a 200 Gb Seagate (or whatever) drive. Using 2 channels I feed them into TAPE input of 990. The length of a "song" (as the machine refers to it) is not limited to 80 minutes on a CD. So for example I could assemble the entire Beethoven Sonata library (32 sonatas) into a continuous play...or break them up...or "make projects".

It is convenient