[Shotimes] OT: DVD burner

[Mark Nunnally]

Go buy the volumes currently on DVD :)

The old Laserdisc video is actually an analog signal (albiet better than
VHS), and the majority of MPEG-2 encoding programs for the home PC won't
look anywhere near as good as they would encoded from the uncompressed
digital masters at a high end studio.  It's amazing how far the technology
has come, a lot of the early DVD releases ( I can recall "Twister", etc)
don't look anywhere near as good as current pieces ("Seabiscuit" is one of
the best I've seen for MPEG-2 encoding).

This is unless of course you happen to have some odd-ball discs that aren't
available on DVD, but that's hard to imagine since anything that's done in
AC3/5.1 on laserdisc was probably a "major" production, and should be easy
to find currently on DVD.

What sucks is we'll be buying them all again for 16x9 HD in the near future.
For the first time since popping up about 10 yrs ago, HD technology is
picking up some steam.  Satellite TV is a big reason for this, but it won't
be long before DVD will jump on the bangwagon since dual layer stuff is more
common, and sony's new 25 gig capacity stuff is looking to be just around
the corner.

mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike" <srfdude@cox.net>
To: "`V6 SHOtimes" <SHOtimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:33 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] OT: DVD burner


> With all the computer guys here, does anyone have any experience or
knowledge
> of software that will let me copy my laserdiscs that have either AC3 or
DTS
> onto DVD?  I don't want to decode the digital audio into 2 channel........
> Mike
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