Video Storage format

I use a MiniDV camcorder. I import into iMovie08 to edit.
To store my movies I decided not to use the DVD format. I want them to be a long time inversion so don't want to face in 20 o 30 years the fact that there's no DVD players and having to convert hours and hours of video.
On the other hand I want the movies to be able to be played in a TV.
Will be a multimedia hard drive a good solution for me?
They seem to read mp4 format, does this mean that they can read h.264? I have experimented and it seem the best compresion with the best quality.
I also read about AppleTV, is this a better solution? I think is not because you need the computer, the AppleTV device and the hard disk where you have stored the video, while with a multimedia hard drive you just have to plug the drive to the Tv. I am right?
Any sugestions will be very apreciated. For me it's been a nightmare to decide a way to store my family videos that will not give me in the future trouble.

I doubt that any electronic/digital medium will last for twenty years. You're best and cheapest bet would be to keep the original tapes (properly stored) and dub them to new tapes every five years or so. As new technology emerges, copy the tapes to the new medium.
-DH

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http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10573
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<CompleteDocument>
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               <Elem2>Test5</Elem2>
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SQL> begin
2    dbms_xmlschema.registeruri(
3      schemaurl => 'http://www.xxxhello.com/sbreak_tsd.xsd',
4      schemadocuri => '/public/sbreak_tsd.xsd'
5    );
6 end;
7 /
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"http://www.xxxhello.com/sbreak_tsd.xsd" ELEMENT "CompleteDocument";
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Index wurde erstellt.
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1 Zeile wurde erstellt.Then I deleted table and schema again:
SQL> drop index idx_lastmodified_sbreak;
Index wurde gelöscht.
SQL> drop table sbreak;
Tabelle wurde gelöscht.
SQL> begin
2    dbms_xmlschema.deleteschema(
3      schemaurl => 'http://www.xxxhello.com/sbreak_tsd.xsd'
4     ,delete_option => dbms_xmlschema.delete_cascade_force
5    );
6 end;
7 /
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2    dbms_xmlschema.registeruri(
3      schemaurl => 'http://www.xxxhello.com/sbreak_tsd.xsd',
4      schemadocuri => '/public/sbreak_tsd.xsd',
5      gentypes => FALSE,
6      options => DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTER_BINARYXML
7    );
8 end;
9 /
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"http://www.xxxhello.com/sbreak_tsd.xsd" ELEMENT "CompleteDocument";
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SQL> create index idx_lastmodified_sbreak on sbreak t (extractvalue(VALUE(t),
'/CompleteDocument/LastModified'));
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SQL> insert into sbreak values(xmltype(bfilename('DATA', 'sbreak/sbreakinstance.xml'),
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insert into sbreak values(xmltype(bfilename('DATA', 'sbreak/sbreakinstance.xml'),
NLS_CHARSET_ID('AL32UTF8')))
FEHLER in Zeile 1:
ORA-31011: XML-Parsing nicht erfolgreich
ORA-19202: Fehler bei XML-Verarbeitung
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