But unlike many of his friends, he has no illusions about making it as a veejay, a video disk jockey.
But the company is riding high on computer giant Compaq's decision to use Creative's second-generation digital video disk upgrade kit in its new PC lines.
Why, he asked in March, are Sony and Toshiba developing rival high-definition video-disk formats, with the Hollywood studios splitting their support?
VCRs, they are actually specialised computers with a huge hard disk on to which video signals can be saved.
So obsolete, in fact, that it may quickly join the ranks of such Sony success stories as the hard drive floppy disk and the Betamax video format.
Using Freescale's direct sequence flava of UWB, the 720p HD video ran flawlessly off the UWB attached disk.
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Companies have to choose between tape storage for archiving, cheap disk storage for everyday nonessential data like backups and video archives, better gear and software for the more important records such as essential e-mails and tax returns and very pricey faultless storage (with outages measured in seconds per year) for online transactions and stock exchanges.
This process may take quite a bit of time and disk space depending on the quality and length of the video.
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As hard drive capacities have surged, the risk of failure has gotten more severe, since one disk can conceivably contain every photo, e-mail, video and document you've created over the course of a decade.
Plus: videocassette players, portable video recorders, the now-ubiquitous Walkman and 3.5-inch floppy disk drives, launched in 1980.
Video eats up far more bytes than music: A two-hour movie occupies as much disk space as 600 songs.
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