DVD-follies
La-dee-DAH!
I have received my first DVD: “Ultimate Tehachapi” from Pentrex.
What a pain-in-the-neck!
Seems a DVD presumes you’re sitting down and viewing the entire video in one shot.
Um, “Ultimate Tehachapi” is an eight-hour video.
What has happened in the past is I would view 5-10 minutes of a tape while eating, and then eject the tape.
Naturally, it would eject at the place in the tape where you ejected it, so that you could reinsert the tape later, next time, and pick up where ya left off.
Can’t do that with a DVD — or so it seems (cue all-knowing DVD experts).
Eject a DVD after a few minutes, reinsert, and whole DVD loads again, and starts from the beginning. It ain’t picking up where ya left off.
Ya also can’t fast-forward a DVD, or back-up to replay a part ya wanna replay. (Maybe ya can, but fast-anything also includes the sound; the announcer yammering at gibberish-speed. Fast-anything with a VHS cuts out the sound.
Now that I know all this, I ain’t sure I wanna dub my valuable VHSs to DVD. The best one I have has a panning-shot of AT&SF diesels running parallel to Cajon Blvd. I always play it twice or even three times. Eight diesels are on the point. The diesels are doing about 50, and the camera pans from one diesel to the next — one after another back-to-front; eight all-together.
I always back it up and play that segment over. Don’t know if I could do that with a DVD.
Segments of my Amtrak Corridor cab-rides get played over-and-over.
I ain’t so sure DVD was an advance.
I have received my first DVD: “Ultimate Tehachapi” from Pentrex.
What a pain-in-the-neck!
Seems a DVD presumes you’re sitting down and viewing the entire video in one shot.
Um, “Ultimate Tehachapi” is an eight-hour video.
What has happened in the past is I would view 5-10 minutes of a tape while eating, and then eject the tape.
Naturally, it would eject at the place in the tape where you ejected it, so that you could reinsert the tape later, next time, and pick up where ya left off.
Can’t do that with a DVD — or so it seems (cue all-knowing DVD experts).
Eject a DVD after a few minutes, reinsert, and whole DVD loads again, and starts from the beginning. It ain’t picking up where ya left off.
Ya also can’t fast-forward a DVD, or back-up to replay a part ya wanna replay. (Maybe ya can, but fast-anything also includes the sound; the announcer yammering at gibberish-speed. Fast-anything with a VHS cuts out the sound.
Now that I know all this, I ain’t sure I wanna dub my valuable VHSs to DVD. The best one I have has a panning-shot of AT&SF diesels running parallel to Cajon Blvd. I always play it twice or even three times. Eight diesels are on the point. The diesels are doing about 50, and the camera pans from one diesel to the next — one after another back-to-front; eight all-together.
I always back it up and play that segment over. Don’t know if I could do that with a DVD.
Segments of my Amtrak Corridor cab-rides get played over-and-over.
I ain’t so sure DVD was an advance.
posted by BobbaLew at 9:59 AM
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