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.