Sony BluRay server

[bcjenkins]

Link Here
Highlights:

200 BD/DVD/CD Changer with Full HD 1080P Video Output
500 GB Hard Drive
XMB™ (Xcross Media Bar) User Interface
Hard Drive can hold up to: 137 Hours of Video, 2000 Music Albums, or 20,000 Photos
BRAVIA® Theatre Sync™ (HDMI-CEC)
AVC-HD with x.v.Color output
Video Codec Format : MPEG2/MPEG4-AVC/VC-1
Dolby® Digital and dts® Digital Output
BD-Java Interactive Capability
Quick Set Up
MP3 and JPEG Playback from DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW

All for only $3500!

[ybrew]

Minor rant.

Only 20,000 photos?

I've got 8000 photos on my sage server occupying just under 1.5 gig of space.

500gig / 1.5gig = 333.333333333333

333.333333333333 = 2,666,666.666666666667

That's over 2.5 million photos.

So why do they say it'll hold 20K pics when it is capable of holding MANY MANY MANY more than that.

/end rant

[MeInMaui]

Another way to look at it is 500GB / 20,000 photos = 25MB / photo.

That doesn't sound unreasonable for high resolution raw format images. Since they don't specify image resolution or file format, this could be the most conservative estimate they could reasonably make.

Aloha,
Mike

[Crashless]

I think it's possible they mean:

137 hours of video AND 2000 albums AND 20,000 photos.

Either way...that's some serious money...

[ChePazzo]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

Another way to look at it is 500GB / 20,000 photos = 25MB / photo.

That doesn't sound unreasonable for high resolution raw format images. Since they don't specify image resolution or file format, this could be the most conservative estimate they could reasonably make.

Aloha,
Mike

While I would agree that a Blue Ray server would want to boast the highest resolution photos, marketing types typically try to make the reported number as large as possible (hence the 500GB instead of the real number: 500,000,000,000 Bytes = 465GB).

[mohanman]

I could use another ash tray at home.
Mo