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Subject: Re: Pinnacle Studio and WinDV freeze up after long idle period, can't
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Voltaire <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:55:12 +1300, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Voltaire <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:48:21 -0500, Patok <[email protected]>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Voltaire wrote:
>>>>> Patok <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Voltaire wrote:
>>>>>>> gargoyle60 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:44:08 +0000, choro <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And what do you mean, Pinnacle is "only slightly less fragile than
Nero".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...in the sense that with the Imation DVD-RWs Nero also used to fail
to
>>>>>>>> write, even though the discs passed all the analysis tests according
to
>>>>>>>> some of the Nero tools/utilities.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Apart from those failures, rarely has Nero let me down, although it
>>>>>>>> sometimes cannot perform a full erase on some of my CD-RW discs.
>>>>>>> My God, someone actually still uses those?  ([:>}
>>>>>>   Duh.  What do *you* use?
>>>>>
>>>>>  I use USB thumb drives. My favorite are the ones that hold SD cards.
>>>>> I usually keep one in my pocket that has a 32G card slid into it. I
>>>>> found the CD-RW disks would slit my pants in a few weeks or so.
>>>>
>>>>   Oh. So your DVD player takes thumb drives? :) And then of course I
misread
>>>>your post. I thought you were questioning Nero and Pinnacle, while in fact
it
>>>>was the CD-RW disks. With *that* sentiment I can agree.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>> I would have thought by now all DVDs would have been rendered
>>>completely obsolete. Movies can be downloaded for rental or purchase.
>>
>>
>>It will be a whole before DVD's become obsolete as video hire places
>>have invested a lot of money in buying DVD's for rent. Unless you can
>>get good traffic flow on the internet then renting a video by
>>downloaded it takes time and you might have a limit on how much data
>>you can download. Rented downloads are not likely to be in Blu-Ray
>>quality and some may be in lower quality than DVD to have a smaller
>>file to download. Also 5.1 sound, subtitles and special features could
>>be missing.
>>
>>Maybe oneday your take your media into a movie hire place and they
>>will dump some movies of your choice onto your media for a hire cost.
>>There will be a time limit put on the media so that it expires on a
>>certain date.
>>
>>Regards Brian
>
>Downloaded movies can be watched as soon as they are purchased with no
>waiting as the download continues as they are being viewed. HD 5.1 is
>not a problem for this reason as file size is of no concern. There is
>actually little Blu-Ray content worth watching once you have seen the
>quality of Discover Channel and National Geographic videos as far as
>I'm concerned. Many are simple re masters.
>
> Rental stores will hang on as long as possible but they used to be
>for those that chose not to purchase cable. Now cable is far more
>popular so there has to be a steady decline in stores like
>Blockbusters. I drive by a store that advertises XXX material. I bet
>those will be the last to go. ;)
>
> I don't know about the upload to your media idea unless the gas pump
>has USB connection. The idea is to not have to leave your house and
>buy on impulse as soon as you see the trailer.
>
> Then there is the Xfinity factor with On Demand that HAS to cut into
>rental but this whole discussion is about the demise of the oversized
>DVD.
>
>  What will 3-D bring to the (coffee) table I wonder.

Censorship changes from country to country so what you are allowed to
watch depends on what country you live in. So the law would only allow
me to download from a rental place in my country and there are no
internet rental places at the moment.
I could watch a paid-for movie on Sky TV as some popular ones are
downloaded on the sky decoder waiting to be unlocked for $6.99 so it's
cheaper to hire a movie for $2.00 which includes blockbuster movies
and is a short distance to get the movie. Those living in remote areas
would gain more from downloading rented movies or getting them from
Sky TV.

I think it would useful if there was a place on the internet that had
the old 1960's TV serials. There are some "The Avengers" serials that
I'd love to download and watch that are not available on DVD (or are
difficult to find on DVD).

Regards Brian

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