[AT] OT... sort of

[Larry Goss]

I saw a report concerning DVD conversion from VHS and digital video cameras that suggested that it is better to buy cheaper equipment for this process than to go "high end"  An El Cheapo DVD burner from a big box store will not have all the safeguards built into it that impede the process.  They specifically recommended spending no more than $100 for a unit.

So I bought an El Cheapo unit from Cicruit City before they went out of business.  It will take ANY input you can hook to it with off-the-shelf patch cables, and it burns anything to a DVD regardless of the format of the original.

A friend of mine was trying to burn double-sided DVD's -- but he didn't buy double-sided disks!  His wife, an HH Gregg salesman, nor I, could convince him that he HAD to buy double-sided disks to get the length of program recorded that he was hoping to get.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Dick Day <ddss at telebeep.com>
Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009 23:03
Subject: Re: [AT] OT... sort of
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Much of what determines the quality is how the TT is connected 
> to your sound 
> card and the software that you use to clean it up.  I am 
> amazed at the 
> quality of what I'm getting in the MP3 files. if you want higher 
> quality 
> than that, save them as WAV files.
> 
> I have never tried converting video, so I am beyond clueless there.
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT... sort of
> 
> 
> I tried transferring an lp record over to cd through my computer 
> but was
> pretty disappointed in the sound quality. I used a free download 
> program,can't recall the name of it right now.
> Same thing with home video, the video quality was so poor 
> compared to the
> original vhs that I did not go any further with it.
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dick Day" <ddss at telebeep.com>
> To: "ATIS" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:42 PM
> Subject: [AT] OT... sort of
> 
> 
> > I'm sitting here "ripping" my old albums to digital MP3 files 
> and having a
> > blast. It got me to wondering if anyone on the list has ever 
> done this?  I
> > have 100's of vinyl albums that I fear might one day get 
> damaged, so I am
> > preserving the songs on the computer.
> >
> > It's inexpensive and easy to do.  A $70 USB turntable and 
> some free
> > software is all you need. They didn't have "She thinks my 
> tractor's sexy"
> > back when vinyl was popular (please note the obligatory 
> reference to
> > tractors).
> >
> > Anyone else tried or thinking of trying this?
> >
> > Dick
> >
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