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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 06:41:17 +0000 (UTC), newsREMOVE@THISmegazone.org
(MegaZone) wrote:
>Mark Lloyd <mlloyd@5xxxmail.com5xxx> shaped the electrons to say:
>>Also, consider the big difference between "easier" and "better". I
>>tend to prefer "better".
>
>People asked me for copies because they missed the show, or it wasn't
>aired where they are - I was nice enough to use my blanks, cases, and
>pay the postage to get them the discs.
Of course, I would need about half that many of each.
> I didn't feel like doing any
>editing, I have better things to do.
>
OK. People are different.
>Frankly I never bother editing shows I archive, even for myself - I
>never have.
I didn't with a VCR, since it was too stressfun watching those
commercials carefully and hoping to press pause (to resume recording)
at exactly the right moment.
> It is easy enough to skip the ads on playback,
Yes. I suppose the difference is just that doing it on recording means
doing it once (and more efficient use of media, effeciency makjes
sense).
> and it
>just doesn't matter enough for me to bother editing them all out. And
>media is so cheap that I don't really care if I use another disc.
>
As someone once said, no matter how little it's still money.
>My PC is more that up to it - Athlon64 with 512MB (I'll probably bump
>it to 1GB at some point), and it even came with video editing software
Sounds good. I'd consider speed (FSB speed is important, maybe more
than CPU speed).
>(it is an HP laptop), it just isn't something I care enough about to
>bother with.
Hopefully, there are other things (maybe not video-related) you care
about.
> On the rare occaision where I might, I can do it - today
>I use DVD-RW to ferry the data, shortly I'll use my LAN and TiVoToGo.
>
A feature (TiVoToGo) that attempts to duplicate something the Replays
can do anyway. That makes TiVo something like AOL. These "new"
features that incompletely duplicate things others have already had.
BTW, I recently heard of a new TiVo unfeature, the software will
delete recordings of PPV events.
>For me moving content to a PC is just no big deal,
Have you done it? It could be like remote controls used to be.
Seemingly unimportant to people who've never used one.
>I can't be arsed.
??
>Most of the stuff I burn is for someone else so I just toss in a
>blank, hit a few buttons, and it is done in minutes.
I'd still like to do a good job.
> No fuss, no
>waiting for a transfer, no editing.
I do edit the video to remove commercials (and PBS does have
commercials now, although fewer and I haven't seen any offensive ones
yet other than maybe those "pledge breaks").
BTW, an hour show (on commercial TV) is about 45 minutes long. A DVD-R
can hold about 7 "hours" of these.
> And the burning is easier than
>with PC software. If you really like editing things and optimizing
>the burn you'd want to do it on a PC.
>
You have more control over the result. As I said, people are
different.
>Now, if it were a transparent, bidirectional system I might setup a TB
>media server just because.
>
1 Terabyte would hold about 1177 hours of video from the Replay.
>-MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762
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