Warning - completely not freevo related, just chatting...
Eric Bus wrote:
Dale Cooper wrote:
Hum, on the other hand, is anyone actually recording movies from TV to _keep_ them? I mean - we have got DVD, right... and if not then P2P :) I for one hate movies run on TV for these reasons:
In my case: no :)
Yup, neither do I.
Cable TV here is always 4:3, so all 16:9 movies are cropped. Quality is not as good as DVD and you have to remove the commercials. So the only reason I record TV is for normal shows that don't come out on DVD or that are 4:3 by origin.
Pffff! Cable TV. I have no cable :( I am in "developing" country, living in "bad location" when it comes to cable companies. They just won't put cable here .. f****rs. And I am living in the capital city, LOL.
However we have quite good (state-owned) channel with no advertisements. It is sort of prostitute - it becomes whatever they want. E.g. for the time of the olympics it was a "sport channel" for 24 hrs a day :) There are interesting movies from time to time, subtitled and these would be worth recording for me. Currently they are broadcasting all Kubrick's movies, sometimes they do all (or most) Woody Allen's movies. ... and yes, that was them who broadcasted Twin Peaks for me :)
a) it is in 99% dubbed (not VO). Thats why I bought DVD to watch it in English, French, German, Chinese... whatever the original was... (ah -with subtitles, of course :) )
Fortunately most programs here are in the original language with subtitles.
Yes, I envy the TV in Netherland. Although it is funny - the "patterns". I am in Amster regularly, every year in the middle of September. And there are the same movies on TV, every year :) Maybe just a coincidence :)
However I guess the French and Germans are having the same problems as we (Czechs) - too many movies dubbed.
b) sound is just stereo, not DD, DTS, 5+1
Depends on your source ofcourse. Digital TV has MPEG2 video with 5.1 sound. In theory, because most programs are still broadcasted in Stereo :)
hehe, Digital TV here is _experimental_ only, working in 2 cities and nothing is for sure. The politicians can't agree on the multiplexes and arghhh..... It would just made me angry if I kept writing... so I will stop here :)
...I guess, this should go to some other for.. ahhm...list as this is really not freevo related :)
Anyway, have a nice weekend, everyone. Dale
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