How would you provide storage for 5 TB of new data each year in your home?

Are there other solutions you think might be appropriate?

There will be hours f footage to upload is Motionbox the fastest and best there is for video uploading and access? or is there a faster, better alternative?

I am about to buy a Mini dvd disc camcorder to make the uploading job easier in the future.

Thanks

All of the original plastic storage cases that the tapes came in are in great shape, with the exception of 4. I’d like to buy replacement cases somewhere but I cannot find them anywhere online. Can anyone assist?

Thanks in advance!

And if there aren’t any home HD video recorders like that (again, I mean with HDMI INPUTS, not just cameras that can shoot HD and only record that), whether tape-or disc-based–even expensive Blu-ray, then why not?

If so, then which ones, whether Blu-ray or otherwise (especially much less-expensive than Blu-ray recorders are now, such as a high-definition prosumer video cameras that might have an IN-version of HDMI–mine has HDMI, but only OUT)?

This includes prosumer video cameras that might have HDMI inputs that you can use in VTR mode–my HD video camera has HDMI, but only OUTput. So what about those?

Also, what about any D-VHS that were made late enough to have HDMI INputs (not just the few with output-only HDMI)?

And if not, then why not?
Also, which satellite TV or digital cable TV receivers with DVRs have FireWire/iLink/IEEE 1394 OUTputs?

Hey, will you come back a little later and see my responses to your answers, please?

Thanks,
Mike Christensen
Yeah, Jettoblack, thanks, but I wasn’t talking about making an illegal copy of a Blu-ray disc; just recording and keeping HD from the air.

So what about recording and keeping HD from a TV signal past when the DVR fills up like we could do with standard definition, even in DIGITAL quality (if we hooked up a digital recorder like a DVD recorder or some digital video cameras that would accept input that way)?

Okay, so we can record SD in perfect or near-perfect quality by recording it from the air to a digital medium, so why not let us do that with HD (and keep it after the DVR is full)?

Also, if the media producers were going to try to prevent us from even recording HD TV to removable media, then why was D-VHS invented WITH a FireWire IN, AND why did earlier models of digital cable TV (and maybe digital satellite) tuners come with FireWire OUT so you could record HD video to D-VHS from those, AND why were D-VHS decks advertised with that very action as one of its purposes?
Also, Jettoblack, there already are TV tuners out there for computers that tune in HD and let you record those to your hard disk (which files you can then move to removable media), and those don’t need a special fast RAID to work. So somehow they must be compressing the video while recording, if we really do need the faster drive system for recording uncompressed HD. So it must not be too hard to have a CoDec or just hardware or combo. or whatever that can do that, but then I just need to get an HDMI capture card that can use that. Huh? But then if I could copy to D-VHS until Blu-ray recorders come down in price (if those even have HDMI inputs), that would be good.

So do Blu-ray recorders have HDMI in, then (for hooking to the tuners I was talking about), or not even those? And do Blu-ray recorders have their own ATSC tuners?

Jettoblack, will you follow up on my new questions here by editing your answer and adding your new comments below the original ones?

Thanks.

I have a backup system in place, but it’s all in my home on my pc. If there’s a fire or a flood I’d lose it all. Thanks.

O….I’m looking at Motionbox.com $29 per year gives you unlimited storage. Does anyone have any experience with this site?
One other question. Are there any websites that host pictures and movies? I’ve been using flickr for pictures, but it would be nice if there was one site for both.