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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SFRT - Frenchy on May 25, 2005, 02:59:05 PM
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They used my car in CMT Homecoming: Toby Keith In Oklahoma . My folks in France wanted to look at the show, but I don't have the capability to save TV on DVD. Any help would be appreciated:)
Homecoming Show times (http://www.cmt.com/shows/schedule/series_sched.jhtml?seriesID=17615)
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WalMart sells a DVD recorder/copier. It costs about $300.
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I have a panasonic dvd recorder. They are not that expencive anymore but I'm not gonna speculate about what they cost were you live. Rpm's price looks right for an entry level recorder (like mine)
Makes excellent recordings @ 2hours per DVD and ok recordings in 4 hour mode.
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Since it's on TV... you lose no quality with a VCR tape.
-SW
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Prolly right Wolfe, but DVD's should be cheaper and safer to send.
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*whispers* I'm not sure they have the DVD technology in France yet... maybe you can try the Minitel? ;)
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Regardless, isn't the coding different between US and European DVDs, or is it only in the UK?
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America uses PAL and europe uses NTSC.. or is it the other way around? Never could remember that.
-edit- America etc uses NTSC and europe etc uses PAL
http://www.alkenmrs.com/video/standards.html
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If you have a video input on your PC you can hook your PC up to it. DVDR's are fairly cheap now a days. That's the rout I'd take verses getting a stand alone recorder.
If it's not that long of a show you can even burn it onto a CDR in VCD format. That plays in MOST DVD players...not all though.
OR you can encode it into a smaller AVI format AND if they have the Intardnet in France then you can email it to them OR do a file transfer type thingy.
For $300 you can almost fly them FROM france to here and they can watch it on your couch.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
For $300 you can almost fly them FROM france to here and they can watch it on your couch.
ARRRRRGGGGGHHH!!
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
They used my car in CMT Homecoming: Toby Keith In Oklahoma . My folks in France wanted to look at the show, but I don't have the capability to save TV on DVD. Any help would be appreciated:)
Homecoming Show times (http://www.cmt.com/shows/schedule/series_sched.jhtml?seriesID=17615)
I watched that show two times.
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I'm the one stopping at the red light, turning his head. Also the one going thru it burniong rubber:D
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
I'm the one stopping at the red light, turning his head. Also the one going thru it burniong rubber:D
Frenchy, I made a point to watch it again tonight to find your car, but I guess each time I have seen it, I have missed the begining.
Are you in the begining? I suspect you are, because I have seen it three times, but always after it had started.
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"Since it's on TV... you lose no quality with a VCR tape.
-SW"
Wrong, VCR only records every other frame, that's why some porn movies you get are pretty poor quality, every time someoone records from it, it gets worse.
wipass
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DVD recorders are way down in price. When first introduced here, the Phillips one sold for £900. Last year I bought a 32" Panasonic widescreen TV - £750, and the DVR was included in the price. It uses Panasonic DVDRAM discs, but these cannot be read by all players, so if I record a TV programme, I can't play it back on any old player - only those than can read DVDRAM format.
As Nilsen says, the quality is excellent at 2 hrs/DVD (Standard), but I find it's just as good on Long Play - 4 hrs. So I've set default to LP.
Don't worry about all that NTSC/PAL compatibility crap. DVDs have one of about 6 region formats. Region 1 is N America (NTSC equivalent), Region 2 is Europe (PAL equivalent). Asia uses some of the others. But - it's easy peasy to convert your DVD player to multi region. I did mine using a handheld infrared transmitter. For details, go here: http://www.dvdchips.co.uk/
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Originally posted by beet1e
DVD recorders are way down in price. When first introduced here, the Phillips one sold for £900. Last year I bought a 32" Panasonic widescreen TV - £750, and the DVR was included in the price. It uses Panasonic DVDRAM discs, but these cannot be read by all players, so if I record a TV programme, I can't play it back on any old player - only those than can read DVDRAM format.
As Nilsen says, the quality is excellent at 2 hrs/DVD (Standard), but I find it's just as good on Long Play - 4 hrs. So I've set default to LP.
Don't worry about all that NTSC/PAL compatibility crap. DVDs have one of about 6 region formats. Region 1 is N America (NTSC equivalent), Region 2 is Europe (PAL equivalent). Asia uses some of the others. But - it's easy peasy to convert your DVD player to multi region. I did mine using a handheld infrared transmitter. For details, go here: http://www.dvdchips.co.uk/
I've got a Pioneer DVD recorder, with a 160GB Hard Drive (up to 160 Hours worth), or burn on a standard DVD-R disc...or you can record on the HD, and watch dvd discs (multi region outa the box), or record on HD, and watch a previously recorded program off the HD, or chase play a program your recording..etc etc
Tronsky
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Wow tronski - 160 hours? I would never need all that. I don't watch a whole lot of TV, and delete the stuff that I've seen, usually. How much of that HDD do you actually use? Will you ever export it all to DVD?
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We use nearly all of it because we set it to the highest quality which gives us about 40 hrs odd (I've still got stargate episodes from xmas to watch :)). I generally don't export it to DVD, unless I give it out to someone (like an F1 race etc) but I did copy most of a season of SG1 for a friend to disc. I generally delete as I go to.
Tronsky
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Those dvd recorders with harddrive sure are handy, and i would get one of those now if i didnt already own a dvd recorder.
Im guessing that either the ps3 or xbox 360 will give me that option so ill wait for one of those.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Those dvd recorders with harddrive sure are handy, and i would get one of those now if i didnt already own a dvd recorder.
I suppose it depends on individual usage. I bought 5 blank DVDRAM disks over a year ago, and I haven't even used all those yet.
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Nuke, I'm in the middle, when they talk about cruising 12th street and picking up girls. All you see is fast flashes of cars.
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Originally posted by beet1e
I suppose it depends on individual usage. I bought 5 blank DVDRAM disks over a year ago, and I haven't even used all those yet.
RAM disks are great, but i record all episodes of Falcon Crest and Will & Grace so that would be too costly.
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isn't there some thing where a DVD from europe can't be played here, and vise versa?
what about home made DVD's (non- bootleg, like making home movies onto DVD) is it the same?
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Originally posted by Nilsen
RAM disks are great, but i record all episodes of Falcon Crest and Will & Grace so that would be too costly.
Yes, I had to pay £14 for those 5 DVDRAM disks. That's about 163 Norwegian kroner. *I* could buy 3 decent bottles of wine for that. ;)
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lol Beetle :D
oh... Oprah is on, gtg