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Ryst Helmut
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...
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 Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| buddy bradley wrote: |
| Ryst Helmut wrote: |
| For me, burning/downloading has never been about saving money... |
Yes, it's clearly been about hassles and unnecessary time-consumption. You must be the toast of every party that you attend. |
Hassle? Not until this DVD bit....an' jes, I yam de toast of every pa'ty.
Tank you.
Shoosh!
has spoken |
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buddy bradley
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| Ryst Helmut wrote: |
| ....an' jes, I yam de toast of every pa'ty. |
You may not believe this, but I'll tell you anyway because you clearly have a lot to learn: Not all South Africans speak like that; some of us aren't Afrikaners. And even if we did, to pick on someone because of their accent after one has taught Englishee in Korea is just plain ridiculous.
I want to be like you but I don't know where to start. Help me. |
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Ryst Helmut
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| buddy bradley wrote: |
| Ryst Helmut wrote: |
| ....an' jes, I yam de toast of every pa'ty. |
You may not believe this, but I'll tell you anyway because you clearly have a lot to learn: Not all South Africans speak like that; some of us aren't Afrikaners. And even if we did, to pick on someone because of their accent after one has taught Englishee in Korea is just plain ridiculous.
I want to be like you but I don't know where to start. Help me. |
I am rolling in laughter over here!!!! I was imitating my student's accent, as I have been actually taking on his accent lately....oh, and he is from Maracaibo, Venezuela.....and he gets a kick out of me imitating him, so jes, eets ok.
Relax.
Oh, and as my friends know, English is my second language and I am a naturalised citizen...so I'd be the last to pick on others.
Sh-oosh!
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Hank Scorpio wrote: |
| What they're working on right now are higher capacity DVD-/+R media, beyond even the 8-9GB mark. I can't recall the source, but I'm pretty sure such media already exists, it's just very expensive and hasn't been put out there to the public yet. Pretty much just in the proof of concept stage. |
Perhaps one of these?
Blu-ray or Blue Laser.
Blue lasers have a shorter wavelength than the current red, giving a greater storage capacity (2-4x current technologies). This technology will also produce ultra-high resolution laser printers.
and a little further down the pipeline:
Holographic Storage.
The concept of putting multiple (like 50-100) layers on a disk and reading all of them (or at least a number of them) at once through a laser or array of lasers. The technology promises 12 times the capacity of the largest (magnetic) Hard Drive at 10 times the data throughput.
[Hey Lemon, read my post to your wife at bedtime, ok?] |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| again please.. if parts of a dvd can be deleted... why cant they also be stored elsewhere? i'm not a dvd head so i dont really know what i am on about but it seems if you can delete something it should be able to be cut and or copied to somewhere else and why cant that then be burned seperately? i am getting a dvd burner soon and knowing this now would be a great help.. (since we are on the subject anyway) |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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More on Blu-Ray: Good News, Bad News
Blu-ray
Blu-ray is a new optical disc standard based on the use of a blue laser rather than the red laser of today's DVD players. The standard, developed collaboratively by Hitachi, LG, Matsushita (Panasonic), Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, and Thomson, threatens to make current DVD players obsolete. It is not clear whether new Blu-ray players might include both kinds of lasers in order to be able to read current CD and DVD formats.
The new standard, developed jointly in order to avoid competing standards , is also being touted as the replacement for writable DVDs. The blue laser has a 505 nanometer (nm) wavelength that can focus more tightly than the red lasers used for writable DVD, and as a consequence, write much more data in the same 12 centimeter space. Like the rewritable DVD formats, Blu-ray uses phase change technology to enable repeated writing to the disc.
Blu-ray's storage capacity is enough to store a continuous backup copy of most people's hard drives on a single disc. The first products will have a 27 gigabyte (GB) single-sided capacity, 50 GB on dual-layer discs. Data streams at 36 megabytes per second (Mbps), fast enough for high quality video recording. Single-sided Blu-ray discs can store up to 13 hours of standard video data, compared to single-sided DVD's 133 minutes. People are referring to Blu-ray as the next generation DVD, although according to Chris Buma, a spokesman from Philips (quoted in New Scientist) "Except for the size of the disc, everything is different."
Blu-ray discs will not play on current CD and DVD players, because they lack the blue-violet laser required to read them. If the appropriate lasers are included, Blu-ray players will be able to play the other two formats. However, because it would be considerably more expensive, most manufacturers may not make their players backward compatible. Panasonic, Philips, and Sony have demonstrated prototypes of the new systems. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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You're dealing with such enormous files that I'm not sure this would work-- but you could try virtualdub (it's free). The program will let you load an mpg and then chop it in two without re-encoding. Tmpg might also do it.
You might also rethink the ripping program you are using to create this monster of a file, as perhaps it is concatenating the files. Wouldn't most consumer DVDs have a series of shorter VOB files-- not one file filling both layers/sides of a disc?
Such sexy talk. It's pretty pathetic that at some of the parties I go to, this would make me fit in.
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Ryst Helmut wrote: |
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I'd suggest this:
Stop being so cheap. If you actually ENJOY all the scenes of a dvd, BUY THE ORIGINAL.
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Cheap, hardly. I literally could skip (an' jes, I skeep) over to Wal-Mart and buy a DVD for the same price (if not cheaper) than what it is costing to burn.
For me, burning/downloading has never been about saving money...
Shoosh!
Ryst |
How's that? I can buy a blank DVD+R 4.7 gig disc for 2000 won or cheaper...you can buy a full dvd for that cost? REALLY? Put the crack pipe away and come back to reality. There is NO WAY you can possibly buy a dvd for the same price you can burn it.
So again, stop being so cheap, if you want the extras, buy the original.
For you it is about pirating and screwing over the studios...be honest about it.
Oh and if ya think I have a high horse, guess so, but at least I am supporting the companies that make movies, so they have enough money to make that next dvd you will pirate. |
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