Video and Movie topics - Week 4, 2005

DVDilemma

wholebean - 22 Jan 2005 4:53 AM - 2 messages

Is there any way to determine if a retail DVD is copied from public domain source material BEFORE you buy it? What's the key, when even the retailers (resellers) don't know (or won't say) when their only concern is peddling them? I mean, have you ...

Looking for comments regarding new TV

Mark - 22 Jan 2005 12:52 AM - 2 messages

Hi all, I'm getting ready to buy a new tv and I'm interested in your comments. Here's my scenario: -want to buy in the next month or two, in anticipation of not being to get another tv for at least 5-7 years. We are pregnant with our first and I know ...

Sony Handycam CCD-TR517 Won't Stay On

Ray - 21 Jan 2005 2:36 PM - 3 messages

Hi, all ... I have a Sony Handycam CCD-TR517 8mm camcorder. Playback mode is fine. But in Record mode, I have a problem. I turn it on; it flickers, shuts off, and restarts. Sometimes it keeps on restarting; sometimes ...

JVC GR-DVL367ex and IEEE 1394 firewire: what cable?

Simon Elliott - 21 Jan 2005 1:05 PM - 3 messages

Some time ago I bought a JVC GR-DVL367ex. I now want to transfer some video onto a PC which has an IEEE 1394 firewire port. I've had a look at the JVC website and it seems that DV Cable part VC-VDV204U is the ...

extract stills

gwaihir - 20 Jan 2005 2:00 PM - 4 messages

I am trying to extract stills from an avi file. I play the file, and try the screen capture, but it captures a black box over where the avi file was playing. This black box will display the avi if I put it over ...

How to display 4 TV channels simultaneously on a projection TV?

Simon43 - 20 Jan 2005 7:21 AM - 4 messages

Hi, I run a bar in Bangkok and we are going to install a projector TV system to offer sports TV channels to our customers. There are 4 channels available. It occured to me that since different customers like to watch different sports, I could combine all 4 channels so that ...

Best video rendering CPU/Motherboard price point?

frasser - 19 Jan 2005 8:20 PM - 9 messages

I could buy a new CPU and motherboard or continue with my AMD 2200. Render times are about realtime but I work with multi-hour files so a little more speed would help. I transfer via firewire for the best quality to AVI in Premiere and ...

Sharp LC 45 GX6U and Windows Media

janwyl - 19 Jan 2005 6:47 PM - 2 messages

Anyone thinking of buying Sharp's new LC45GX6U might want to think twice. The screen's claim to fame is that it is one of the first to support native 1080 X 1920 resolution. The reality is that this is ...

RCA or S-Video to VGA?

masonlubert - 18 Jan 2005 11:30 PM - 4 messages

Would it be possible to use a converter to take a RCA or S-video output and plug it into a VGA input such as a monitor cable? Or does the monitors display require a video card and is only capable of ...

FREE TV...THIS IS NOT A SCAM!!!

jndevirg - 17 Jan 2005 11:14 PM - 2 messages

Hey- Check out this great site that is giving away totally FREE Flat Screens! I've joined and I think you should as well. It's a completely legitimate offer, and this company has already given away $4 million in FREE stuff! ...

I need firewire webcam software for Win XP

Jimbo - 17 Jan 2005 6:28 PM - 3 messages

I have a firewire port on my Windows XP PC, and I have a nice JVC DV camcorder. What is the best software I can get to utilize the camcorder as a webcam? I have high speed internet, and the person I want to ...

What to use to generate test TV signals

Ray K - 17 Jan 2005 2:27 PM - 2 messages

This TV has a intermittent buzz in the sound when certain video is present (like white scrolling credits on a dark background at the end of a show/movie). The fancy term is intercarrier buzz. I know how to eliminate it (by tweaking one of the transformers in the ...

Antenna TV Reception Problem

ewyatt - 16 Jan 2005 11:07 PM - 3 messages

Here's a low-tech TV question! What causes a wide horizontal band to slowly cycle vertically (continuously) on a TV using an outside antenna? This is only on some channels above 24, or so. It's ...

No sound through DVD recorder

Gus - 16 Jan 2005 5:34 PM - 5 messages

Anyone have a suggestion about the following problem. I have a Comcast DVR double-tuner box connected to a Sony XBR-960 CRT TV. I am trying also to connect a second output through a Panasonic DMR-E30 DVD ...

Converting NTSC to PAL for a DVD

Raskolnikov Alexis Friedemann - 16 Jan 2005 1:14 PM - 7 messages

I think I have a method that works, but it appears to increase the height of the image. Is there a way to restore the proportions? I render the NTSC avi file in Premiere as a PAL file, which appears to ...

Looking for a toll to cut and past mpg's together or cut something out

Michael Schrading - 16 Jan 2005 12:01 PM - 3 messages

Hi Yes, I recorded some movies from TV and would like to cut out all the spot and other breaks in movies or fit two parts of a movie together! Is there a simple and cheap tool to do this? ...