Dr. Brin Wrote:
True, copyright piracy is (generally) bad. But the bloody
inconvenience and blithering incomprehensibility of simply using a
modern DVD player to watch a film that you already own - let alone
record an episode of NOVA - it is why I keep three VCRs in the house,
still.
I
On 1 Aug 2009, at 09:12, KZK wrote:
Dr. Brin Wrote:
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2009/07/notion-of-disputation-arenas.html
True, copyright piracy is (generally) bad. But the bloody
inconvenience and blithering incomprehensibility of simply using a
modern DVD player to watch a film
William T Goodall wrote:
On 1 Aug 2009, at 09:12, KZK wrote:
Dr. Brin Wrote:
...
True, copyright piracy is (generally) bad. But the bloody
inconvenience and blithering incomprehensibility of simply using a
modern DVD player to watch a film that you already own - let alone
...
I don't
Today's DVD's
1- are not universal if you record on minus or plus mode and many units
throw fits, even then
2- fast-forward and reverse are a mess. They are twichy and over and
undershoot like mad.
3- menu navigation is often torment
4- You cannot copy incrementally, onto the end of a
7- It is much easier to read the back of a video box than the
pages of that tiny booklet--if there even is one.
Vilyehm
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On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:31 PM, David Brin wrote:
Today's DVD's
1- are not universal if you record on minus or plus mode and
many units throw fits, even then
2- fast-forward and reverse are a mess. They are twichy and over
and undershoot like mad.
3- menu navigation is often torment
4-
At 07:31 PM Saturday 8/1/2009, David Brin wrote:
Today's DVD's
1- are not universal if you record on minus or
plus mode and many units throw fits, even
then
Another problem, at least with the unit I have, is that if I want to
record a program (frex) from 8 to 9 on channel m followed by one
