But the recent advances in technology have opened up more affordable and less space-consuming options for those looking to go retro.

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The goal, says Real Networks Vice President Jeff Chasen, is to do away with space-consuming discs and let users create a backup copy of their video collection.

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And it is space-consuming.

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They have been collecting dust and consuming precious shelf space.

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Yet, the entire petabyte of data is backed up, moved to a disaster recovery site, consuming additional power and space used to store it all.

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Founded by Jeremy Leggett, the chairman of solar energy company Solarcentury, along with (rather unusually since his company will be consuming plenty of fuel to get rockets into space) Virgin Galactic Chief Executive Will Whitehorn.

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