On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 00:30 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 15:03 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > I don't have a problem with digital- best thing since sliced > > bread for me. > > Some people are just lucky. Many more are not. > > One of the things I did while training was a bit of work in a TV set > repair shop. A great deal of their customers have rotten reception, > many of which will not do anything about it, and berated the staff for > not fixing their telly. And there's plenty more that can't do anything > about it, because they're located in a reception shadow. They had a map > on the wall shaded in different ways for different reception problem > areas, with a legend for the antennas needed to work in some locations, > and also some rather large blackspots where there was no solution. > > > In fact I have trouble with analogue because I use a tv > > server- the adc doesn't work as efficiently, whereas digital is > > already mpeg. > > Though is it in the format that you need? It certainly won't be if you > wanted to record to a standard DVD that you could take around and watch > at a mate's place. > > *Conversions* have been really annoying me over the last few days. I've > spent about 8 hours copying someone's Super 8 film collection to video, > and some 16 mm, watching the original film quality disappear. Then had > to deal with the issues of recording onto a DVD recorder (which isn't > compatible with all players), and having to convert that into another > disc that ought to work on all players. > As long as its compact and quick enough to get on the hdd I'm happy. I actually want h.264, but that requires either HD or a quick conversion on any PC I choose. No biggy... If I were to take it around to a mates (not likely with my setup- much better...) I'd take the laptop and use the tv out or something like that- take too much time to create the dvd. > FFS! You'd think Bill Gates designed all this incompatible crap. > > -- > (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. >
