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bmwracer

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject:

The Panasonic better show up tomorrow: I gotta hang around and wait for FedEx to deliver it...

bmwracer

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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

Got it!!!!! The thing showed up at 10AM this morning... Been playing around with it all day in between mowing the lawn and playing basketball... I need more DVD-RAM discs. So far, so good.

ahochaude

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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject:

Congrats bmw. Have fun with it and don't break it by fooling around with it too much. _________________

bmwracer

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:38 am Post subject:

ahochaude wrote:

Congrats bmw.
Have fun with it and don't break it by fooling around with it too much.

Heh, it won't be too long before I open 'er up and see what makes it tick. hehe

dochira

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:09 am Post subject:

bmwracer wrote:

Been playing around with it all day in between mowing the lawn and playing basketball... I need more DVD-RAM discs. Sweat

So far, so good. Thumbsup

Cool. I know you'll enjoy it. If it saves you any amount of time converting the tapes to DVD, it'll be worth every penny, right?

bmwracer

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:03 am Post subject:

dochira wrote:

Cool. I know you'll enjoy it. If it saves you any amount of time converting the tapes to DVD, it'll be worth every penny, right?

You bet.

Picked up some more DVD-RAM discs at BB ($15 for 5, not bad) and I'm on project #1: transfer my LDs to DVD. Big Grin

dochira

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:20 am Post subject:

bmwracer wrote:

Picked up some more DVD-RAM discs at BB ($15 for 5, not bad) and I'm on project #1: transfer my LDs to DVD. Big Grin

Awesome.

bmwracer

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:

dochira wrote:

Awesome.

Let's see how long it goes before the novelty wears off. Sweat

bmwracer

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:04 am Post subject:

Uh oh, got a slight problem: Although I can play the DVD-RAM on my PC using PowerDVD, Windows Explorer cannot read the DVD-RAM disc... I suspect it's because I'm running Win2K and there's no UDF driver for the DVD-RAM drive... Suggestions before I commit seppuku?

dochira

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:15 pm Post subject:

bmwracer wrote:

Uh oh, got a slight problem:

Although I can play the DVD-RAM on my PC using PowerDVD, Windows Explorer cannot read the DVD-RAM disc... Sweat

I suspect it's because I'm running Win2K and there's no UDF driver for the DVD-RAM drive...

Suggestions before I commit seppuku?

Didn't think there would be a speed bump... I'm guessing the UDF driver in Nero, InCD, doesn't work. Sweat

bmwracer

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:12 pm Post subject:

dochira wrote:

Didn't think there would be a speed bump... I'm guessing the UDF driver in Nero, InCD, doesn't work. Sweat

Just found InCD late last night... Seems to be buggy: causes Win2K to be unresponsive at times, not to mention it uses some system resources...

Oddly, I've discovered that supposedly Win2K SP2 supports DVD-RAM automatically, whereas SP4 does not. Grumble

Great going, Microsoft. Smack!

Need another option (aside from XP)...

bmwracer

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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:23 am Post subject:

No luck. Looks like I've got only three choices: the Roxio UDF driver, the Nero InCD driver, and the Adaptec UDF driver...

dochira

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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:27 am Post subject:

bmwracer wrote:

Great going, Microsoft. Smack!

Need another option (aside from XP)...

Sorry to hear that. I wonder why MS decided to do that in SP4. Crazy

bmwracer

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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:37 am Post subject:

dochira wrote:

Sorry to hear that. I wonder why MS decided to do that in SP4. Crazy

No idea.

From numerous queries at support.microsoft.com, the whole thing is completely ignored/covered up. It's JFK all over again...!

olnil

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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:15 am Post subject:

How about going the Dvd-rw route?

bmwracer

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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:32 am Post subject:

olnil wrote:

How about going the Dvd-rw route?

I thought about that before I bought the recorder, but the DVD-RAM offers more features and flexibility, one of 'em being that it's the only format on the Panasonic that can record 16:9.... All the others are 4:3 only. Sweat

BTW, the Adaptec/Roxio UDF drivers bite: they locked up Windows, so InCD is the way to go. Sweat

dochira

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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject:

bmwracer wrote:

BTW, the Adaptec/Roxio UDF drivers bite: they locked up Windows, so InCD is the way to go. Sweat

I should try the DVD-RAM disc in my PC. But I have WinXP, so it should be fine, right?

Actually the DVD-RAM would be perfect, since I am finding episodes here and there on my tapes. Even with the labels, it's like finding a needle in a haystack.

bmwracer

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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject:

dochira wrote:

I should try the DVD-RAM disc in my PC. But I have WinXP, so it should be fine, right?

From what I've read, yes.

I'm surprised that you haven't tried it out yet... I'm still bleary-eyed after playing with the recorder for the past two days... Nut

dochira

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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

bmwracer wrote:

From what I've read, yes.

I'm surprised that you haven't tried it out yet... I'm still bleary-eyed after playing with the recorder for the past two days... Nut

I've been going through the tapes to figure out what to record. But what I should do is record them as I see them onto the DVD-RAM. Then I can collate them on the PC.

bmwracer

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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:16 am Post subject:

dochira wrote:

I've been going through the tapes to figure out what to record. But what I should do is record them as I see them onto the DVD-RAM. Then I can collate them on the PC.

That's a good idea.

One thing I did discover, albeit late: when buying DVD-RAM discs get the higher speed ones, not the 2-3X ones that I bought: it takes 25+ minutes to copy the entire 4.7GB to my HD... Sweat

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