Computer Museum of America on Tuesday night's PBS NOVA (fwd)

From: quapla_at_xs4all.nl <(quapla_at_xs4all.nl)>
Date: Fri Feb 1 03:38:56 2002

Me too!! Me too :=)

On a side note, wil that disk also be playable on a stand alone DVD player?

Ed

>
> --- Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com> wrote:
>> If I remember, I'll tell my Tivo to record it, and then I can download
>> it to my [[ can't mention it here, I'll get picked on again... ;-) ]]
>> "non-impressive base machine" & convert it to MPEG2 - altho I'm not
>> sure what size it'll be - depends on what resolution folks will be
>> happy to put up with...
>
> I'd appreciate VCD resolution at a minimum. Even a P100 (or CD-32 with
> MPEG cart) can play back a VCD mpeg.
>
>> Otherwise I could burn them to SVCD if anyone has DVD players that can
>> play them...
>
> I do! I have an upgraded Apex AD600A (I had to update the firmware
> because mine had a bug - it couldn't play SVCD disks with the video
> file in the MPEG2 directory, only in the MPEGAV directory).
>
> My experience is that an SVCD MPEG (which is 480x480) runs about 50 min
> for an 800Mb file (which barely fits on an 80 min CD-R because it uses
> 2552(?)-byte sectors, not 2048 byte sectors. Looks nice, though. VCD
> (352x200) is about 500MB for the same length (about 10MB/minute).
>
> I'm game, but I have broadband (presuming you didn't want to burn
> disks).
>
> -ethan
>
>
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Received on Fri Feb 01 2002 - 03:38:56 GMT

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