Comments on: Talk about bleeding edge http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1825.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Wed, 23 May 2012 04:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: In-Cog-Nito http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1825.html/comment-page-1#comment-2215 In-Cog-Nito Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:48:33 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001825.php#comment-2215 Thank you Fazal. Very good insight. The more I read, the less I liked as well about the PVR/DVD. I think as with most technologies, the more specialized the better. Ouch on the 10 hours. The most I've ever edited were 5-10 minute clips for work. Time is a premium nowadays, so I think I'll go with something like Philip's push a button and get results deal. Thank you Fazal. Very good insight. The more I read, the less I liked as well about the PVR/DVD. I think as with most technologies, the more specialized the better.

Ouch on the 10 hours. The most I’ve ever edited were 5-10 minute clips for work. Time is a premium nowadays, so I think I’ll go with something like Philip’s push a button and get results deal.

]]> By: Fazal Majid http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1825.html/comment-page-1#comment-2214 Fazal Majid Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:04:46 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001825.php#comment-2214 I have a Panasonic PVR-DVD combo. The UI sucks compared to my old TiVo, but at least I know I am not being spied on. For producing DVDs, you have only very basic editing capabilities. The DVD burner should only be seen as a way to offload recorded movies, it is too limited in functionality to edit home videos. iMovie + iDVD on the Mac is far superior to anything you would find in a PVR-DVD combo, and there are less elegant but still serviceable equivalents on Windows. In any case, budget approximately 10 hours of work for 1 hour of final DVD produced, at least initially. Editing video is very labor-intensive. I have a Panasonic PVR-DVD combo. The UI sucks compared to my old TiVo, but at least I know I am not being spied on. For producing DVDs, you have only very basic editing capabilities. The DVD burner should only be seen as a way to offload recorded movies, it is too limited in functionality to edit home videos.

iMovie + iDVD on the Mac is far superior to anything you would find in a PVR-DVD combo, and there are less elegant but still serviceable equivalents on Windows.

In any case, budget approximately 10 hours of work for 1 hour of final DVD produced, at least initially. Editing video is very labor-intensive.

]]> By: In-Cog-Nito http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1825.html/comment-page-1#comment-2213 In-Cog-Nito Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:38:26 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001825.php#comment-2213 Yes, more to break. But sure must be nice to use before it breaks eh? As with most technologies though, I think I'll wait and see what else comes down the pipes. Yes, more to break. But sure must be nice to use before it breaks eh? As with most technologies though, I think I’ll wait and see what else comes down the pipes.

]]> By: tom walsh http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1825.html/comment-page-1#comment-2212 tom walsh Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:11:31 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001825.php#comment-2212 If you have a DVD-PVR combo, what do you do when the PVR hard disk goes belly-up? The same thing with a TV-VCR combo. Hard to service, and when one half goes, you are stuck with the repair/replace question. You can get equivalent picture and sound quality with S-Video or video-out and RCA plug audio connections, I believe. tom If you have a DVD-PVR combo, what do you do when the PVR hard disk goes belly-up? The same thing with a TV-VCR combo. Hard to service, and when one half goes, you are stuck with the repair/replace question. You can get equivalent picture and sound quality with S-Video or video-out and RCA plug audio connections, I believe.
tom

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