Got a HD recorder ?

I changed my living room system when we upgraded the old HD DISH 3LNA to
a HD 5 LNA super wide oval antenna.

Our HD Sony Plasma is 2+ years old now and running fine. No burns.
I took out the AV amp (for the shop natch) and hooked all directly
into the Sony.

Now for the news for all.

The Sony disk player that came with the old (2+ yrs old) AV amp and it had
the unique HD 5 wire connections. Before we used the yellow video out.
What a difference. The CD's are being displayed as HD's - almost as good as
and much better than that of the use of the yellow + 2 sound.

See if you can get around it that way. The TV has I/O ports to the Tape deck.
I record HD picture that is down converted to higher than normal quality video
when the tape is played or recorded on a DVD recorder. Higher quality signals.

Martin

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cavelamb himself wrote:
Christopher Tidy wrote:
On Nov 9, 9:47 am, _
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:49:49 -0600, Ignoramus3257 wrote:

On 2007-11-09, cavelamb himself wrote:

A question for someone who knows...

I have a little over 1000 movies stored on DVD disks.
(It was a mad house when it was all VHS tapes!)
I'd like to have movies to watch at anchor aboard the boat.

It's partly a space issue.
And I don't want to take the disks out anyway.
So...

I checked at Fry's today.
750 Gig USB drive for just under $300.
That would hold about 100 movies.
(guessing an average of 7 Gig or so per title?)

But how to load them is the question...

"play" them on?
I can do this already - but the time factor is a bit
much at 1:1.

But I'm hoping to find some kind of special software to read
them on at much greater speed.

If you convert them to .avi files in format such as XviD, then the
movies would take about 750 megs each, so you can have about 1,000
movies per disk (give or take). They also have terabyte disks for sale
now.

i

The time to convert 1500 hours might be a factor.

As might the capabilities offered by the DVD itself (chapters,
subtitles,
etcetera).

Sony makes a *real* jukebox that holds 300 DVD's. They also made DVD's
that won't work right in it (probably due to the rootkit copy-protection
scheme). DVP-CX995V.


In my opinion, chapters and menus and copyright warnings suck. To be
rid of them and just be able to watch the movie would be an
improvement.

Chris


A lot of these (mebe 30-40%) are copied from old VHS tapes,
so the DVD resolution issue is a non-starter.

ALL of the copies have had the MacroMedia BS removed.
(I (heart) my GoDVD box)

the 1500 (actually more like 2000!) hours of conversion time
brings me back to my origonal question -
is there some way to simply rip the DVD to HD?

(iggy's perl script not withstanding )


Richard

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