Feck feck feck deleted all my dr whos

Ed wrote:
More feck than feck feck feck I'd say. Feck feck feck would be doing
what you did with something you've had for years on VHS and then
copied over to DVD, and then wiped with very little hope of
replacing.

You could always - wow, here's an idea - buy the DVDs.
It's not out yet!

Blaming Panasonic is a bit harsh. In future, RTFM!

I was joking, I've read the manual several times, I just didnt realise
you couldnt finalise DVDRAM, so hit format without properly reading as
that is where finalise usually sits in the menu. So it is partly
panasonics fault, and then again mainly mine for not reading the text
that says 'are you sure you want to format as it will delete anything
on the disc'!

They do seem to be releasing the Dr. Who DVDs fairly quickly, so I doubt
you'll have too long to wait before you can buy it.
--
Adrian

Ed Chilada wrote:
On 30 May 2006 04:22:15 -0700, "DVDfever Dom"
wrote:

To save problems like this happening, I got a 400Gb Seagate USB hard
drive and connect that via firewire to my PC. That way, every time I
record something I want to keep I archive it to DVD and convert that to
an .mpg file on the hard drive (the latter is dead easy with a program
like Mpeg Video Wizard) and I do that before I delete it from my TiVo.

How do you get the video off the Tivo? I've done this myself after
fitting a turbonet card (or whatever it's called), and then being able
to get .ty files from the Tivo over FTP. ISTR I also installed a codec
which allows me to then view them in Media Player. However, being able
to edit them or convert them to anything else seems to be a
non-starter. Is there something I should use - perhaps the
aforementioned Video Wizard?

I record to DVD+RW (often in 3hr mode so I can get six 30-min eps of a
BBC series on a disc - any lower quality and it really can suffer, and
given how cheap DVD-Rs are - the disc-type it finally ends up on -
there's no need to skimp on such things) which I copy to the PC with
DVD Decrypter and that'll store the individual programmes as .vob
files, which can then be imported into Mpeg Video Wizard.

Dom

I record to DVD+RW (often in 3hr mode so I can get six 30-min eps of a BBC series on a disc - any lower quality and it really can suffer, and given how cheap DVD-Rs are - the disc-type it finally ends up on - there's no need to skimp on such things) which I copy to the PC with DVD Decrypter and that'll store the individual programmes as .vob files, which can then be imported into Mpeg Video Wizard.

Must be a pain watching them at 2x speed though, they last 45 minutes
on my tv!

On Tue, 30 May 2006 15:54:33 +0100, Ed wrote:

I record to DVD+RW (often in 3hr mode so I can get six 30-min eps of a
BBC series on a disc - any lower quality and it really can suffer, and
given how cheap DVD-Rs are - the disc-type it finally ends up on -
there's no need to skimp on such things) which I copy to the PC with
DVD Decrypter and that'll store the individual programmes as .vob
files, which can then be imported into Mpeg Video Wizard.

Must be a pain watching them at 2x speed though, they last 45 minutes
on my tv!


"of *a* BBC series", not current Dr Who ones.

--
Steve (3)

Adrian A wrote:
Ed wrote:
More feck than feck feck feck I'd say. Feck feck feck would be doing
what you did with something you've had for years on VHS and then
copied over to DVD, and then wiped with very little hope of
replacing.

You could always - wow, here's an idea - buy the DVDs.
It's not out yet!

Blaming Panasonic is a bit harsh. In future, RTFM!

I was joking, I've read the manual several times, I just didnt realise
you couldnt finalise DVDRAM, so hit format without properly reading as
that is where finalise usually sits in the menu. So it is partly
panasonics fault, and then again mainly mine for not reading the text
that says 'are you sure you want to format as it will delete anything
on the disc'!

They do seem to be releasing the Dr. Who DVDs fairly quickly, so I doubt
you'll have too long to wait before you can buy it.

But the individual DVDs seem a bit of a rush-job whereas the
whole-series boxset will be out some time in Oct/Nov so I'd rather wait
until then for better quality.

I'm not sure if this is the case with Doctor Who, but sometimes with
things like this you just get the Dolby Surround sound on the quick
releases while the eventual whole-series boxset has DD5.1 as they've
had more time to sort that out, and I could tell that would be an
obvious essential in the werewolf episode as when they were trapped in
a room and looked all around. The sound was bland on TV but mixed in
DD5.1 would sound superb.

Dom

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Ed wrote:
Fecking Panasonic.

I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes of
Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course I'd
deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.

No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.

So get them off a bittorent site, problem solved

But it always seems to take about 22 years to download through Bittorrent
(and I'm on a 10Mbit connection)!

Then get yourself on a private site.

"DVDfever Dom" wrote in message
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Damon wrote:
Ed wrote:
Fecking Panasonic.

I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes of
Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course I'd
deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.

No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.

So get them off a bittorent site, problem solved

They won't be in as good quality though. It's rare you get DVD-format
(mpeg2) torrents online due to the size of them.


So he should buy or rip the DVD when it comes out. Sounds like he has
already seen them and only wants them for the collection anyway.

"Mike Redrobe" wrote in message
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Ed wrote:
More feck than feck feck feck I'd say. Feck feck feck would be doing
what you did with something you've had for years on VHS and then
copied over to DVD, and then wiped with very little hope of
replacing.

You could always - wow, here's an idea - buy the DVDs.
It's not out yet!

Blaming Panasonic is a bit harsh. In future, RTFM!

I was joking, I've read the manual several times, I just didnt realise
you couldnt finalise DVDRAM, so hit format without properly reading as
that is where finalise usually sits in the menu.

You should be asking "do data recovery programs work on DVD-RAM disks"?

I don't know the answer


Depends on if it was quick format or proper format.

"Mother Farquhar" once tried to test me. I ate their
liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti


"Damon" wrote in message
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Ed wrote:
Fecking Panasonic.

I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes
of Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course
I'd deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.

No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.

So get them off a bittorent site, problem solved

But it always seems to take about 22 years to download through
Bittorrent (and I'm on a 10Mbit connection)!



Get them from alt.binaries.drwho, where someone called WhoFan posts a DVD
every week with the episode, the trainer, the confidential, the kiddies
"totally Dr Who" and any other stuff from that week. He does titles and
all, I hope he doesn't lose his virginity anytime soon.

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Mike Redrobe wrote:
Ed wrote:
More feck than feck feck feck I'd say. Feck feck feck would be doing
what you did with something you've had for years on VHS and then
copied over to DVD, and then wiped with very little hope of
replacing.
I just didnt
realise you couldnt finalise DVDRAM, so hit format without properly
reading as that is where finalise usually sits in the menu.

You should be asking "do data recovery programs work on DVD-RAM
disks"?
I don't know the answer

I do now...

Isobuster will recover from a formatted DVD-RAM
- I tried it with a camcorder formatted disk, as I was archiving it anyway.

--
Mike