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Hard Drives for Video

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If you love to watch great movies, videos or TV shows on your computer or TV set, one of the newest and simplest ways to accomplish this is through a video hard disk drive (HDD). Video hard drives are relatively new and are similar to DVD players except removable discs are not necessary.

Video harddrives are usually small devices about the size of a paperback book. Video hard drives hold from around 60 GB to over 500 GB of data and have technology to play, encode and decode many different types of music and video files. The larger drives can store around 1,000 hours of video! You can easily download movies, video, music and TV shows onto these video hard drives and play them later by hooking them up to your computer or TV set with simple wires. Some video hard drives even include an LCD screen so you can watch your videos or movies anywhere.

Video hard drives are quite affordable and range in price from about $150 to about $500 depending on the storage size and features. HDD devices support a wide range of video and audio compression methods. Most video hard drives can play media from DivX format, DVD format, MPEG 4 format as well as mp3’s. So if you are looking for a device that lets you record all your favorite movies, video and music and then play them back at your leisure, look into video hard drives.