movie storage

Bought two 1TB USB powered drives for $50 each shipped from Amazon on sale a couple of weeks ago. I bought them for offline backups but it shows the prices are falling on the smaller drives now that 4TB are becoming common.

We don't watch TV in the camper but if we did I with proper compression (yes you loose some quality but you're camping rough it :-) you should be able to get them down to less than 1 GB each so you could put a bunch of them on a thumb drive. I bought a cheapy 32GB thumb drive off eBay for $8 shipped a few weeks ago.

When home, we get two movies per day from Net Flics and copy them to a small 1T drive made by Western Digital from Costco. The drive will plug directly into the back of the newer TVs making it very easy to use.

Bill

Thanks everyone for the feedback.

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i back up all my DVD's to external Hard drives

I made a small DVD rack that hangs aside the television. It is the kids job to load and rotate. I find the kids like to look at the cases to decide. I do like the idea of down loading from a legal source however. Best of luckWe only watch one family movie per night

I use a very large (half terabyte) USB drive myself.. Movies are recorded off the air in my case, I will not burden the campground with streaming and can not afford that kind of bandwidth myself even if I had a cell connection.

We keep our collection of dvd's (movies/tv shows) in the camper for when the Satellite or OTA is obstructed by trees or whatever.

Rather than deal with yet another electronic device, I select a couple dozen DVDs to take along. Easy to sort through, read the propaganda, etc.

I store mine on the DVD they came on. Doesn't take up that much space for a couple hundred movies. Pull the ones I want to watch when in the toyhauler and I'm good.

And I don't believe in pirating or copying movies I don't own, so that really limits what is available online.

And AFATG there really aren't that many movies I care to watch more than once other than a lot of old classics. Most modern movies cater to the younger, sophomoric crowd and I usually can't stand to watch them once, and sometimes can't even finish them. But that's just me.

If I had to watch a movie I think I could find one over the air, the networks show them all the time. 25 movies would take me the rest of my life to watch. Whatever media you choose may not be current and could be unusable before you finish watching them all.