You just had to move Third Watch to the 9PM slot, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU? You sick sons of bitches, that's opposite JAG! Gah! How could you?!
If both season premiers are on the same night, heads will roll. In the meantime, what is this DVD Recorder of which I hear?
God Damn you NBC!
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The most bang for the buck seems to be the Panasonic line.
I own a DMR-E50, the bottom of the line. (350 US$ out the door)I love it.
At first, 350$ seems like a lot, until you figure the cost of doing it any other way. After you get the capture card, and DVD burner, there is still the software, and getting the shit to work together. No thanks! I read about too many experts that couldn't integrate the components and get them to "play well together."
One single, stand alone dedicated component is the easiest way, and possibley the cheapest. Plug it in, cable it up, and burn. NO compatability issues. Plus you can play on the computer while the components run without you! Like I am doing right now.
Just make sure you get HIGH quality DVD blanks, (no Staples or GC or other generic quality discs) and get the rewritalble ones if you want to reuse, or even think about editing. If you get a write only dics, you editing will be your finger on the pause button, done in real time. The next higher level recorders are twice as much money, but come with a hard drive, so you can edit with the player/recorder, and just burn the discs. (Rewritable DVD discs are twice as expencive as the write lonly ones.) Hell, the 600$ one doesn't need discs if you only want to have 4 hours of total footage, and are only using it for replaying at a better time.
Stay AWAY from ANYTHING Phillips,as you have an overpriced coaster maker.(You get what you pay for)
Sony and Pioneer are good, (Pioneer makes the best, but you will pay the most, like 900$+)
http://www.videohelp.com/
Go here if you have any doubts about playback compatability.
Mine will record one channel while playing an other, which is what I think you have in mind. There is also a feature that will automaticly skip recording the commercials. Use it, it is faster and more accurate than you are. (Your finger, it's electronics, who has better reaction time?)
I purchased mine specificly to archive all my VHS tapes, (porn) and it is perfect for the job. Some DVDs it won't let me take "the best of" parts, and add to my collection, (Red Light District) but that is what DVD Xcopy is for, and DVD-RW. When you make your "legal archive" copy on you computer, and select to copy the movie only, no menues, it doesn't copy the signal that makes the Panasonic burner pop up the little box that states, "You are not allowed to copy this material."
Out of the 75+ discs I have burned, only 3 are coasters. 1 was operator error, and the other 2 were icky discs, with visible flaws in the lamination, IE bubbles.
DVD recorders ROCK! I replayed the battle of Apophis and the Prometius from SG1 season 7 's climactic battle one frame at a time several times, just to see how much was going on. THAT was a fleet engagement! What a frag fest! The Promethius and Supporting craft VS Everybody else was great! I can't wait until season 7 comes out on DVD, as my reception is ok, but nowhere near the quality I have seen on the DVDs they sell. (Until you get digital cable, DVDs will always be better, plus all that behind the scenes stuff.)
I own a DMR-E50, the bottom of the line. (350 US$ out the door)I love it.
At first, 350$ seems like a lot, until you figure the cost of doing it any other way. After you get the capture card, and DVD burner, there is still the software, and getting the shit to work together. No thanks! I read about too many experts that couldn't integrate the components and get them to "play well together."
One single, stand alone dedicated component is the easiest way, and possibley the cheapest. Plug it in, cable it up, and burn. NO compatability issues. Plus you can play on the computer while the components run without you! Like I am doing right now.
Just make sure you get HIGH quality DVD blanks, (no Staples or GC or other generic quality discs) and get the rewritalble ones if you want to reuse, or even think about editing. If you get a write only dics, you editing will be your finger on the pause button, done in real time. The next higher level recorders are twice as much money, but come with a hard drive, so you can edit with the player/recorder, and just burn the discs. (Rewritable DVD discs are twice as expencive as the write lonly ones.) Hell, the 600$ one doesn't need discs if you only want to have 4 hours of total footage, and are only using it for replaying at a better time.
Stay AWAY from ANYTHING Phillips,as you have an overpriced coaster maker.(You get what you pay for)
Sony and Pioneer are good, (Pioneer makes the best, but you will pay the most, like 900$+)
http://www.videohelp.com/
Go here if you have any doubts about playback compatability.
Mine will record one channel while playing an other, which is what I think you have in mind. There is also a feature that will automaticly skip recording the commercials. Use it, it is faster and more accurate than you are. (Your finger, it's electronics, who has better reaction time?)
I purchased mine specificly to archive all my VHS tapes, (porn) and it is perfect for the job. Some DVDs it won't let me take "the best of" parts, and add to my collection, (Red Light District) but that is what DVD Xcopy is for, and DVD-RW. When you make your "legal archive" copy on you computer, and select to copy the movie only, no menues, it doesn't copy the signal that makes the Panasonic burner pop up the little box that states, "You are not allowed to copy this material."
Out of the 75+ discs I have burned, only 3 are coasters. 1 was operator error, and the other 2 were icky discs, with visible flaws in the lamination, IE bubbles.
DVD recorders ROCK! I replayed the battle of Apophis and the Prometius from SG1 season 7 's climactic battle one frame at a time several times, just to see how much was going on. THAT was a fleet engagement! What a frag fest! The Promethius and Supporting craft VS Everybody else was great! I can't wait until season 7 comes out on DVD, as my reception is ok, but nowhere near the quality I have seen on the DVDs they sell. (Until you get digital cable, DVDs will always be better, plus all that behind the scenes stuff.)
Hmmmmmm.
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Re: God Damn you NBC!
I realize there are some hot babes on JAG but you really need to stop watching that show, either way you are going to end up being disappointed.RogueIce wrote:You just had to move Third Watch to the 9PM slot, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU? You sick sons of bitches, that's opposite JAG! Gah! How could you?!
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
DVD recorders let you record what you're watching onto a ~half-length DVD (4.7GB vs. 9GB). I'd stay away from Sony, their quality control is pretty bad (except for televisions, maybe).
A set-top device is indeed a lot easier to use than the computer solution, but the latter is cheaper. DVD+/-RWs are less than $100 now and decent capture are also under $100. With a computer you can also do all sorts of magic to make the signal look good (because NTSC sucks normally) and turn it into a TiVo-like device.
But as Chrostas said, it is generally much more work.
A set-top device is indeed a lot easier to use than the computer solution, but the latter is cheaper. DVD+/-RWs are less than $100 now and decent capture are also under $100. With a computer you can also do all sorts of magic to make the signal look good (because NTSC sucks normally) and turn it into a TiVo-like device.
But as Chrostas said, it is generally much more work.
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Those bitches.Daltonator wrote:Chardok wrote:Wonder how the Merger affects Dalton...you know, changing from NBC to...
NBC UNIVERSAL
Doesn't affect me much at all, but all the staffers that've been here for 10+ years got an extra week of vacation.
What, you think I get my impression of what the Navy is like because of that show? You think that's what inspired me to go into the Navy? Well, it's not. I can trace those roots back to sixth grade, when my Language Arts/Geography teacher said they had the best food. Yes, that's what did it. Anti-climatic, really.Tsyroc wrote:I realize there are some hot babes on JAG but you really need to stop watching that show, either way you are going to end up being disappointed.
Anywho, I watch it for the entertainment value. If I really thought being a Navy lawyer involved hopping in an F-14 to save the world in between the high profile dramatic trials, and having the chance to bonk a hot female Marine, I'd be in law school right now. And certainly not going SWO (you won't see one SWO pin on any of them lawyers, now will you? Nope, it's pilot, submariner, and SEAL. Though the new PO has an ESWS...and she's pretty hot, like all the others). If there's one thing JAG has taught me, it's that there are only a small percentage of the Navy females that are really hot, and they're all probably on shore somewhere.
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight