Re: Electronic House magazine's Best Homes of the Year 2007

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 >sorry ... Scrubs ...

lost on me ... I'll try to ignore ... !

>AnyDVD & CloneDVD ...

we use our PC to play DVDs ... so maybe we should get one of them ...
but 'curious to know how they cope with the different encodings ...
ie: the 24fps vs 50Hz Europe & 60Hz USA business, which I'd assumed
meant it wasn't just prohibitions but codings that were different on
the DVD ... 'wonder if Zone 1 & Zone 2 copies of the same movie play
to same quality through AnyDVD or CloneDVD ?

>roll of duct tape ...

yes, 'wonder if people are better in the more formal environment of
rows of seats ???


Chris


On 6 May 2007, at 09:57, Phil Harris wrote:

>
>> actually, that's not a bad idea ...
>
> Glad you like it - now what's your opinion on penecillin, microwave
> ovens
> and vaseline? :-D
>
> (Sorry - just had a four hour "Scrubs" marathon and Dr. Cox
is my
> favourite
> character on TV...)
>
>> some sort of introductory
>> material to get people settled & in the mood ... at the
>> concert-hall, at the theatre, & for operas, they used to have
>> / have overtures, to do the same thing ...
>
> ... or just to fill up the 15 minutes whilst your CRT projector
> reaches
> operating temperature ...
>
>> only ... it could all for nought, without a way to jump the
>> copyright & disclaimer texts, and the trailers, at the start
>> of DVDs ...
>> sometimes it's possible, by jumping around the controls (as
>> it were), but far from always ...
>
> Ahhh - you haven't done your research. What you're talking about is
> called
> "User Prohibition" and is part of the DVD playback licence
specs as is
> intended to lockout the transport controls during those wonderfully
> involving trailers and FBI warnings...
>
> Thankfully every "chipped" DVD player I've had over the
years has user
> prohibitions disabled as part of that useful package of mods.
>
> However, if you're using a PC for playing or ripping DVDs then
> AnyDVD and
> CloneDVD between them not only allow you to disable user
> prohibitions and
> region coding (functions of AnyDVD)but also effectively remaster
> DVDs to
> remove trailers, adverts and any other unwanted stuff (functions of
> CloneDVD).
>
>> 'must remember have a we're at the cinema mode on the HA,
>> too, to handle the things that would be interruptions ...
>
> Yeah - for me, a roll of duct tape and a big sign saying "Shut
the
> f*ck up
> and watch the film then you'll know what's going on and won't need
> to ask me
> who did what to who and why..." helps enormously.
>
> Phil
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