[thechat] LOTR locations
Norman Bunn
norman.bunn at craftedsolutions.com
Fri Jan 4 15:37:14 CST 2002
Like the idea of moving VHS to DVD, though I still find my VHS machine
quite handy for archiving programs from my Dish PVR (love that real-time
pause and rewind!). Now if I can get my PVR to dump to the PC and then to
DVD, that would be cool. It does have an S-video out...hummmm.
Norman
At 04:28 PM 1/4/2002, you wrote:
>On 03:12 PM 1/4/2002, Judah McAuley said to me:
>>At 03:03 PM 1/4/2002 -0600, Ben Dyer expounded...
>>>I plan on auctioning off most of my VHS tapes at some point this year
>>>(while I can still get something for them). Or maybe not, they'll
>>>probably be collectors items someday. :)
>>
>>Be careful about auctioning off all your VHS tapes, some of those may
>>never come out on DVD. Just like some great music originally issued on
>>vinyl never made it to CD.
>
>This is true. I need to go through my collection and find out which are
>available on DVD (in case I want to buy it again). I'm to the point now
>that my VCR isn't even hooked up anymore. It sits very forlorn-looking in
>the corner now.
>
>>For instance, I just had to break down and buy Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
>>Are Dead on VHS from Amazon.uk because it is out of print in the
>>U.S. Now I have to get the tape converted to NTSC format so I can
>>actually watch it. All because some studio decided it wasn't worth it to
>>keep it in print or put it out on DVD. And this is a movie that's not
>>too old (1990), from a well know director (Tom Stoppard), starring two
>>well known actors (Tim Roth and Gary Oldman).
>
>Of course, if I had a Quicksilver G4, I could dump the video into iMovie
>and then burn it to a DVD...hmmmm, there's a thought for my old
>videos. Obviously not the same quality, but I wouldn't need the VCR
>anymore. :)
>
>--Ben
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