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Offline Dinger

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« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2003, 11:19:20 PM »
well, if you've ever rented a DVD, you can see why "disposables" would be reasonable.  A VHS cassette can stand being rented out several times without significant degradation, but thumbprinted, scratched DVDs are just unmanageable.
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Offline Torque

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« Reply #16 on: May 17, 2003, 02:15:43 PM »
You can still rip and burn a DVD with just a DVD player and a CD burner on your puter, it will take two cds though for a regular DVD player to read it.

DivX and XVid codecs can reduce a DVD down to 700+ mgs.

I did read awhile ago about a company that was planing on releasing a DVD player that was DivX capatible must be the reason for the recent drop in DVD everything.

If you have a S-Video out and a surround card just play them straight from your HD.
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Offline Gunthr

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« Reply #17 on: May 17, 2003, 08:27:36 PM »
Fast forward ten years. I wonder if movie stars will make as much money as they do today?
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