Good to see you here!
[ B.O.Y.S.: Boys On Your Screen (The Message Board) ] Written by The Poor Farang am 25 Jan 2001 19:34:19:
As an answer to: I disagree written by St. Mule am 16 Jan 2001 02:58:03:
And posting using that neat nick-name, again!
On with your comments and my banter....
>>DVD is a two sided CD, with some special features.
>That is not a true statement. Most DVDs have a label on one side and they play only one side.
>The main difference is the DVD does not use the same format as CDs. It uses a UDF (Universal
>Disk Format) and MPEG compressed data.You are right, of course! I'm pleased that you called me on that. I thought everyone was going to let it stand!
Perhaps you also can answer some other questions about this format?
Like, what is the maximum size? Full size CDs seem limited to 650 to 800 mb. But I see DVDs with nearly 8 gigabytes on a single side??I do have a few double sided DvD's with less than 3.5 gigs on side. Are these older DVDs? Possibly in a different format?
I can copy the CD to a disc, but generally, I can't use the copied video data, in any way that I've yet tried. I guess this means that the Dvd video encoding is pretty good and there will be no effective way to copy DVDS? The exceptions are some specifically computer friendly DVDs. One of these, for example had 7.5 gigs of video data and about 6 megs of windows programs and movie clips that I can use on my PC. These work from the CD and and after coying
>Actually with the speed of processors (1.3 GigaHertz) and enough RAM you can get good
>performance without a decoder card. However, I would buy a scaled down DVD play for my
>TV before I spend the bucks for the DVD/Video Combination. One reason is all the ones that
>have DVD on their computers say they don't like the limitations of viewing and want a real
>player.The DVD must be decoded while it is played. If you do not have a hardware decoder, you must have a software decoder, or am I missing something here? The software decoders that I have tried, run like dogs, compared to the hardware decoders. Now I haven't tried it on a 1.3 gig machine, but it was rather bad on 900 mhz athelon and an 850 mhz Intel. Yes, I could watch the movie, but I could not do anything else, easily, with the computer
>Yes but how about having it play on the TV where you can snuggle up together.
No Problem!Start with any system and you can expand it to do what you want. . You can get some interesting gadgets on your home cable system, however, so you can still snuggle up to a boy, while watching the DvD on your favorite TV. Of course, it still looks good on a big monitor and perhaps that is even better for snuggling? The device in question, codes an RCA signal as a cable channel and feeds it back into your home cable system.
Been traveling a bit. Sorry I took so long to answer. And, again, it is good to see that nick back.
The Poor Farang