Re: Punch cards

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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.
> 
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> (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
>  important to the thread.)
> 
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> I read messages from the public lists.
> 

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