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amrayu
Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 582 Location: san francisco, USA Country: |
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:49 am Post subject: |
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groink wrote: |
Without further review of these DVDR/VHS combo units, I expect the mainstream companies like SONY and Panasonic to have the macrovision detection enabled out of the factory to prevent their products from being used for bootlegging or backing up macrovision-protected VHS and DVD products. What you'd then need to do is wait until someone on www.dvdrhelp.com posts a macrovision hack for any given make/model. Like I mentioned in an earlier message on this topic, SONY says their products can be used for dubbing -- they just won't tell you for copyright reasons.
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yes the panasonic standalone dvd recorder that i have has macrovision protection. but i dont record anything from tape that has macrovision, so its not much of a problem for me.
there are ways to bypass macrovision, you just have to experiment.. _________________
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Scorpion
Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 15
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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groink wrote: |
Without further review of these DVDR/VHS combo units, I expect the mainstream companies like SONY and Panasonic to have the macrovision detection enabled out of the factory to prevent their products from being used for bootlegging or backing up macrovision-protected VHS and DVD products. What you'd then need to do is wait until someone on www.dvdrhelp.com posts a macrovision hack for any given make/model. Like I mentioned in an earlier message on this topic, SONY says their products can be used for dubbing -- they just won't tell you for copyright reasons.
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No where in your message did I see that you were thinking about transfering copy protected/macrovison tapes to a dvd. I don't think there is any standalone dvd recorder out that will let you copy copy protected tapes or dvds. I have a panasonic and pioneer dvd recorder both with hard drives and both will not let you. Of course there are ways around it by having a dvd player that has been macrovision hacked or other boxes that hook up between the dvd player or vcr and the dvd recorder. As for copying dvds that it is better just to use a dvd burner in your computer and the right free/shareware software.
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KouSeiya315
Joined: 14 Dec 2001 Posts: 1837 Location: United States Country: |
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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groink wrote: |
Is there a such animal as a DVD-writable/VHS combo unit? Didn't know if one does exist. |
They exist. When I was in Japan last summer, they were just coming out over there (by Panasonic). It was in a lot of magazine ads. I don't remember the exact price but it was at least 50,000 yen.
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groink
Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 1223
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Scorpion wrote: | No where in your message did I see that you were thinking about transfering copy protected/macrovison tapes to a dvd. |
Hehe... That's because I'm not! I only mentioned about macrovision because everyone else here is concerned about that. As for me, all of my VHS tapes aren't protected. However, in the past I had a couple I wanted backed up, so I ended up buying a $20.00 doo-dad from mainland China that absorbs the macrovision before it gets to my PC. So I'm already covered on that.
As for the DVDR recorders... I'm waiting for the 80GB units to drop in price. Right now, the Panasonic model retails for $2000!
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Scorpion
Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 15
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 3:22 am Post subject: |
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groink wrote: |
As for the DVDR recorders... I'm waiting for the 80GB units to drop in price. Right now, the Panasonic model retails for $2000!
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Not sure where you got that $2000 figure from. Retail price for the Panasonic E-80H is $699 and the new E-85H is $799. Some places on the net carry last years E-80H model for just under $500. I also have heard others are getting them from Best Buy for about $350. The newer E-85H model just hitting stores and the internet now with a 120gig hd is going for about $575.
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groink
Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 1223
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 4:21 am Post subject: |
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Scorpion wrote: |
Not sure where you got that $2000 figure from. Retail price for the Panasonic E-80H is $699 and the new E-85H is $799. Some places on the net carry last years E-80H model for just under $500. I also have heard others are getting them from Best Buy for about $350. The newer E-85H model just hitting stores and the internet now with a 120gig hd is going for about $575. |
I was looking at the Panasonic model a friend of mine owns... The price was from the Panasonic web site, more likely the full retail price and seeing she bought it about one year ago. A unit like this is #127 on my list of things to get, so I never looked into anything else. Right now, I'm using a Windows PC to do the exact same thing, and I have a lot more flexibility in the editing and customizing department (someone told me DVDR stand-alone recorders don't save the DVD content to ISO-formatted discs, therefore you can't edit them directly a Windows-based video editor.) Of course, that may have changed as well.
120GB unit for $575?????? This I gotta look into! Thanks!
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TLCy
Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 7
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:26 am Post subject: Question for Lite-On LVD-2002 owners |
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Does the Lite-On LVD-2002 player read soft subs like smi or srt?
Hopefully the answer is yes
If it doesn't, I guess I'll just have to merge the subtitles and make it hard sub.
TIA!
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groink
Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 1223
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:40 am Post subject: Re: Question for Lite-On LVD-2002 owners |
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TLCy wrote: | Does the Lite-On LVD-2002 player read soft subs like smi or srt? TIA! |
No, that model doesn't support subs. But there are other makes/models that do, so I'd look into those rather than trying to hardsub your stuff just to stay with the LVD-2002 (of course if you already bought the unit, then...)
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amrayu
Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 582 Location: san francisco, USA Country: |
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 5:21 am Post subject: Re: Question for Lite-On LVD-2002 owners |
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groink wrote: |
No, that model doesn't support subs. But there are other makes/models that do, so I'd look into those rather than trying to hardsub your stuff just to stay with the LVD-2002 (of course if you already bought the unit, then...)
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i think with the older model it did support soft subs. i've read that the lvd 2002, with a firmware upgrade supported soft subs. but of course it was just a beta firmware, and liteon was quick on discontinuing the lvd 2002, and took the firmware off their homepage. _________________
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bmwracer
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 125547 Location: Juri-chan's speed dial Country: |
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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TLCy wrote: | So what's the best stand alone player out there right now? |
Best in terms of what? Being able to play al formats? Picture quality? Sound quality? Ease of use? Features? Price to performance?
I doubt that you'll be able to find one standalone player that can meet all those requirements... You have to decide what's important to you, then you can filter out all the player that don't meet your criteria...
Check http://www.dvdrhelp.com/...
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eltinator
Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 6787 Location: Fremont, CA Country: |
Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Yu* *Ki
Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 10:19 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your info but I already checked this website but I couldn't find any info regarding my player.
any help will be appreciate it.
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Buruburu
Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 229
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 10:43 am Post subject: Re: Please Help... |
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Yu* *Ki wrote: | Hi,
1)Maker:LG
Model:DVP-S500
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Sony has a model with the same exact number. So according to that, -R no, +R yes. Which is VERY VERY STRANGE
Yu* *Ki wrote: |
2)Maker:SHARP
Model:DV-HR300
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No ones knows _________________
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eltinator
Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 6787 Location: Fremont, CA Country: |
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bmwracer
Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 125547 Location: Juri-chan's speed dial Country: |
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Yu* *Ki
Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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eltinator wrote: | Oh, I'm not sure the exact ratio but it said somewhere on dvdrhelp that I think dvd-r plays on 93% of the DVD players and DVD+R plays on 90% or something? Odds are both will be ok for you.
EDIT: Not sure if this will help....
DVD-R is a non-rewriteable format and it is compatible with about 93% of all DVD Players and most DVD-ROMs.
DVD+R is a non-rewritable format and it is compatible with about 88% of all DVD Players and most DVD-ROMs. |
Thanks a lot................
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KouSeiya315
Joined: 14 Dec 2001 Posts: 1837 Location: United States Country: |
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niko2x
Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 4009 Location: East Coast, US Country: |
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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darn, iguess i waited too long to get the liteon models. i was thinking if i waited long enuough, the prices will drop a bit. who knew that they'd discontinue it so fast?
I guess to get one that is equivalent, i'm looking in to the Philips DVP642. it has MOST of the requirement that i want:
-- cd-r/cd-rw/dvd/dvd-r/dvd rw/+, -.
-- regionfree hackable (by doing this, from vcdhelp:)
- Open the tray.
- On your remote press '0000'.
- Press '0' to make it region free or whichever zone you want to set it to.
- The newly selected region will appear on the top left corner of the screen.
- Close the tray
most importantly, it plays divx 3 to 5.
My only grip is that this doesn't seem like it plays any xvid avi's, or any ogg support.
BM, if you see this let me know what you think. if you know of any other that does all those things, let me know plz. _________________
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