Anyone here get Enterprise in HD and have a HDPC and DVDRW?

Id LOVE to have some DVDs of this series in HD. My signal is such crap here
in Austin....

Most likely this is just a shot in the dark, but it would definitly be worth
it to me to reimburse someone for their time and effort to get a high
quality copy of this.

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:39:10 -0600, wrote:
Id LOVE to have some DVDs of this series in HD. My signal is such crap here
in Austin....

If you're going to make a DVD video disc, you'll have to downconvert it
to 480i anyway. You might be able to just do a data DVD and copy the
..mpg or .avi to it, but you'll have to use a ton of compression to fit
the HD video onto one disc.


John.

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Well 481 is fine as long as its digital from a digital source... I just want
to be able to see TPol clearly

"John 'Shaggy' Kolesar" wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:39:10 -0600, wrote:
Id LOVE to have some DVDs of this series in HD. My signal is such crap
here
in Austin....

If you're going to make a DVD video disc, you'll have to downconvert it
to 480i anyway. You might be able to just do a data DVD and copy the
.mpg or .avi to it, but you'll have to use a ton of compression to fit
the HD video onto one disc.


John.

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*** John P. Kolesar ***
*** --- http://www.shagg.net/ ***
*** Valley Mead Brewery ***
***********************

John 'Shaggy' Kolesar wrote in message ...
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:39:10 -0600, wrote:
Id LOVE to have some DVDs of this series in HD. My signal is such crap here
in Austin....

If you're going to make a DVD video disc, you'll have to downconvert it
to 480i anyway. You might be able to just do a data DVD and copy the
.mpg or .avi to it, but you'll have to use a ton of compression to fit
the HD video onto one disc.

It would fit nicely on two DVD's with no further compression. You just
need to edit out the commercials. A one hour HD show without
commercials is under 6 gigabytes. I use HDTVtoMPEG2 with output set to
transport stream. The version I use has buttons to go forward or back
1, 10 or 60 frames (or seconds). Since the commercials are all in SD
they are easy to spot by the black bars. So it takes less than a
minute to mark all the commercials and then you just let it run to
produce the much smaller file.

Before you get too excited my local UPN affiliate is owned by News
Corp which means they will be approximately last to get HD receiving
equipment. I have gone on SuprNova.org to get a DiVX reduction from
HDTV source for an episode I failed to record. It was less than 800
meg and I was amazed at how good the picture was.

"Steve Bryan" wrote in message
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John 'Shaggy' Kolesar wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:39:10 -0600, wrote:
Id LOVE to have some DVDs of this series in HD. My signal is such
crap here
in Austin....

If you're going to make a DVD video disc, you'll have to downconvert it
to 480i anyway. You might be able to just do a data DVD and copy the
.mpg or .avi to it, but you'll have to use a ton of compression to fit
the HD video onto one disc.

It would fit nicely on two DVD's with no further compression. You just
need to edit out the commercials. A one hour HD show without
commercials is under 6 gigabytes. I use HDTVtoMPEG2 with output set to
transport stream. The version I use has buttons to go forward or back
1, 10 or 60 frames (or seconds). Since the commercials are all in SD
they are easy to spot by the black bars. So it takes less than a
minute to mark all the commercials and then you just let it run to
produce the much smaller file.

Before you get too excited my local UPN affiliate is owned by News
Corp which means they will be approximately last to get HD receiving
equipment. I have gone on SuprNova.org to get a DiVX reduction from
HDTV source for an episode I failed to record. It was less than 800
meg and I was amazed at how good the picture was.

I found 3x08 and 3x09 in that exact format... I cant believe how MUCH BETTER
it looks... I can settle for that. Its pretty pathetic when a small
bitorrent download looks ten time (or more) better than the on air version.