[William Adams] Basically, I’m turing my media into searchable content that can be used for more than just entertainment. This is a good thing for book/learning people such as ourselves, we have ready access to a library of Congress amount of information right here on our little server at home.

This is exactly what I have in mind for my home theater room. With 200 gig hard drives now at $99, I’m planning on ripping all of my DVD’s to the ‘media server (where all my MP3’s are stored)’, and making them available all over the house with gigabit ethernet.