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Playback Drive: Pre-Loaded Media and Production Hard Drive

Posted by John Saddington on Apr 7, 2010

I had no idea that this type of product actually existed. I suppose the next question is whether or not it’s worth the price tag?

Playback Drive is a hard drive that comes pre-loaded with a bunch of animations, media, loops, and more:

  • 75 High Definition Video Loops
  • 75 Standard Definition Video Loops
  • 50 TripleWide Video Loops
  • Over 120 Still Images

It’ll spot you $249.00 though.

Apparently it’s a collaborative effort between WorshipVJ, VisualWorshiper, and Orange Thread Media.

A good bunch of guys, I might add. Check out this promo vid:

So, is this worth the $250 spot? What’s your take?

Thanks @PhillipGibb for this tip!

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCreate. He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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12 Responses to “Playback Drive: Pre-Loaded Media and Production Hard Drive”

  1. JayCaruso
    Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 10:29 pm

    Price is really good at first glance. It would be nice to see them have examples of the clips and images (more than what is on the video). Also, I don’t like the $50 addition for FW800 but it’s still pretty good.

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  2. Graham
    Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 10:40 pm

    Yeah the pricetag seems reasonable… Like JayCaruso said… I’d like to see more examples though.

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  3. Brandon Cox
    Friday, April 9, 2010 at 12:38 am

    Our church once paid $180 for a collection of 18 CD’s that housed thousands of backgrounds… deal or no deal, we’ve come a long way!

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    • Stuart
      Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 6:41 pm

      This is the nub isn’t it?

      Does your / my church have the wherewithall to do this for themselves? If so then the $249 shouldn’t be worth it. That said, if you have ability and capability to do this then shelling out the bucks to support a ministry or two is not an issue either.

      The real question for rne (apart from agreeing with Jay’s) is will the church use them and / or do they know how to use them?

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  4. Nancy Thompson
    Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 11:37 am

    The price is really good. Less than $1/piece for media that has been preselected for church use. If you’re doing anything at all with visual worship in a church setting, this seems to be a no-brainer. And if you know of a church that is just getting started using visuals in worship, this would be great place for them to start.

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  5. David
    Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    They’re certainly the guys with the chops. But backgrounds are such a commodity business now. Is it worth the net $1 extra a clip over something 50-75% as good? Hmm.

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  6. Travis
    Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    The general price is pretty stinking good for what you get compared to similar sites. (HighwayVideo, WorshipHouseMedia, etc.) The real question here is how much of it is usable for you? The number of videos for that price, HDD or not, is good, some things may not be good for your church setting though. I anticipate getting one for my church and moving all of my video content on it and using it as the storehouse for all my media. I’m waiting to find out how much space the data takes up before I make a decision on drive size.

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  7. Stephanie Ciardi
    Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Seems like a decent price. I’ve not done too much pricing in the church realm specifically, but generally speaking some HD stock video can be around $75 a pop. Multiply that by just the 75 HD videos it includes and it would seem you’re already getting a decent price. I agree with JayCaruso though, it would be nice to see the examples cause at this point it’s hard to say if it would even be useful for my church specifically.

    On another note, I’m all about getting unique footage. If you have the time and resources to get your own, I think it makes that much more of an impact to the audience.

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  8. proctor
    Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    hey everyone-
    first off, John…wow…thank you so much for the kind words and the post you wrote about the Playback Drive. This blew us away! and the 8Bit Network….LOVING THIS new online community!

    to those of you who have written comments…thanks for everything you wrote…we agree with you that it’s only fair that you get a better glimpse of the content you are getting on PBHD. I’ve just posted a Guided Tour walking you through the majority of the content (still finalizing and downloading from our FTP servers)…. I hope this answers some of your questions and gives you a more close-up look at what PBHD is all about.

    http://worshipvj.com/pbhd-a-guided-tour/

    thanks again for your feedback! let us know what else we can do to help serve you.

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  9. Jonathan Allen
    Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    I always watch Deal or No Deal on TV, what an exciting show and i love the briefcase girls too.**-

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