Doctor Who progressive or interlaced? How to record it digitally.

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On 4 Apr, 08:07, Phil Randal wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I'd say they should ban alcohol from puns too. Makes as much sense.
Oh, stop wining!

lol! Very good. Bet the OP doesn't get it though.

I think the OP has a pint. These alcohol-related puns are pretty
unbeerable.

"Stephen Wilson" wrote in message
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An even better idea is to buy the official DVDs when they are released.

Better still is to snip some of the content when making a supercilious one
line remark.

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:46:47 +0100, Phil Randal
wrote:

I'd say they should ban alcohol from puns too. Makes as much sense.
Oh, stop wining!

lol! Very good. Bet the OP doesn't get it though.

I think the OP has a pint. These alcohol-related puns are pretty
unbeerable.

That's the spirit!

Rod.

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:58:36 +0100, "Agamemnon"
wrote:

I've been forced to go digital since I can no longer find and good quality
video tapes in the shops.

That seems a strange reason. Didn't the reliability, speed of access
and storage capacity of disk based systems have anything to do with
your choice?

No, because of the audio sync wow and flutter problems I was getting with
InterVideo's software I was using previously. In fact WinDVD Creator is so
bad that it can't even synchronise video and audio when converting between
MPEG formats or even sync its own video edits at the correct start points in
its own editor when burning to DVD. Complete rubbish. Pinnacle Studio 8 will
work properly on MEPG files but will not allow me to set the audio bit rate
on AVI conversions or even play back AVI audio in the editor or record DVD's
in 16:9 ratio so I eventually tracked down VirualDub which will let me
create DivX files which I can then burn to DVD and which take up less space.
The only thing I can't do with it is to re-dub audio with it.

Goodness me, that seems like a lot of trouble. I have a a freeview
receiver with a hard drive and DVD recorder all in the same box. If I
want to keep something I just stick in a blank DVD, select the item
from the list on the hard drive, tell it to copy and go away and do
something else for a while. When it's finished I tell it to finalise
the disk so it will play on any standard DVD player. No probs.

Rod.

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:46:47 +0100, Phil Randal wrote:

wrote:
On 4 Apr, 08:07, Phil Randal wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I'd say they should ban alcohol from puns too. Makes as much sense.
Oh, stop wining!

lol! Very good. Bet the OP doesn't get it though.

I think the OP has a pint. These alcohol-related puns are pretty
unbeerable.

Now you're just milking it ;-)

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Phil Randal wrote:
wrote:
On 4 Apr, 08:07, Phil Randal wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I'd say they should ban alcohol from puns too. Makes as much sense.
Oh, stop wining!

lol! Very good. Bet the OP doesn't get it though.

I think the OP has a pint. These alcohol-related puns are pretty
unbeerable.

You got the right.
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"Agamemnon" wrote in message
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While I was editing the current episode of Andromeda on ITV4 in order to
test out my new AVI/DivX/Xvid capture and editing software
(VirtualDub-MPEG2
1.6.15) which I recorded using the Xvid real time Codec set to
interlaced,
I
noticed that the episode seem to have been either deintelaced at source,
ie.
by the broadcaster, since there is no motion blur in any of the frames
where
you would expect them to be such as rapid arm or hand movements.

Are you capturing using an analogue card plugged into a set top box?

Yes. It can also capture from my VHS video recorder.


I used to record the analogue transmissions with an analogue TV tuner card
(AIW 9000), but the digital reception is better here than analogue (even
though this isn't an official Freeview area) and I got tired of the 4
channels of dross so got a Nebula digital TV card for the PC in order to

Way too expensive. Its £80 inclding VAT for the USB version.

watch 40 channels of dross instead. I record the mepg2 direct instead of
messing with on the fly compression, as that just adds another chance for
the quality to drop. Three 45 min Who eps fit on one 4.3G DVDr, though
sometimes that takes a bit of re-encoding (done by the authoring sw, or
run
through DVD Shrink after authoring). I'd rather not be messing around
recompressing on the fly to try and fit 6 to a disc, but to save only
having
one ep on a whole blank I do sometimes try and stretch to 4 with a bit of
re-encoding if the picture doesn't get noticeably poor.

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 19:39:11 +0100, Agamemnon wrote:

"Southpaw" wrote in message
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"Agamemnon" wrote in message
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An even better idea is to buy the official DVDs when they are released.

After hearing all the stories about manufacturing defects in almost every
BBC Doctor Who release including missing scenes, reversed phase stereo,
out of sync Dolby 5.1 and scenes from X-rated horror films included
instead of the original episodes I'm not touching the official DVD's. On
top of that how can they justify asking me to pay double the price of a
full season of a US show for the equivalent of half a season of a US
show, for a boxed set, in other words four times the price of a US DVD
boxed set, when they can't even be bothered to watch and listen to any of
their DVD masters and printed DVD's to check for errors and defects.

£15 for a 13 episode box set, (guaranteed defect free) is a reasonable
price that I would pay and save all the haste of recording it myself
considering a 26 episode season of a US show can be had for only £30.

Still begs the question of why you would want to record, keep (and
presumably re-watch) the show anyway?

Yer, I know. It's not like its filled with good looking sexy totty like
Andromeda or Babylon 5, or Star Trek or most other US shows that have
straight producers. Oh and talking about RTD's pervesions, I read the
following about the Judoon. Is this where RTD got the idea from?

Why don't you just get off to some porn instead of torturing yourself to a
semi-erection watching Jeri Ryan in spandex with metal all over her face?
Or even better, get yourself a woman in RL and get rid of some of that pent
up frustration. It isn't at all healthy.

£15 for a 13 episode box set, (guaranteed defect free) is a reasonable
price that I would pay and save all the haste of recording it myself
considering a 26 episode season of a US show can be had for only £30.

Once it`s hit the sales it can but most US boxsets start life at
significantly more than that. I do agree the Dr Who new series boxsets are
vastly over-priced though, I haven`t bothered to buy S2 myself. The classic
series DVDs however are a bargain and the early stories in particular look
so much better IMO with the re-mastering work.

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On 2007-04-03, Agamemnon rambled on thusly:

Oh... is was 5000% was it. Right, I assumed 10,000. That's only 1/8 of a
chest X-Ray at the distance he was standing then and 100 times that is 12.5
chest X-Rays which 8 times less than a CT head scan.

Also, the henchmen's species is sensitive to X-rays, so the brief
exposure will kill it.

There are more X-Ray's and Gamma rays coming from outer space and hitting
the moon because it does not have an atmosphere so how come it hasn't died
from them?

"If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
"And other science facts
"Just repeat to yourself
"'It's just a show
"'I should really just relax....'"

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