I am now prepping to transfer VHS,Betamax (only one thankfully), and 8mm tapes to DVD. Not an easy project as its not straight forward. I have a very good JVC SVHS VCR and need to buy a time-base correcter. Once the capturing to digital form is done (lossless compression) the next task is to correct any other problems (color etc.), compress to MPEG-2 and then author DVDs. Needless to say... I will be keeping the original tapes and uncompressed video along with several copies of the final DVDs.
I had to do this with a friend's Nutshell databases. I managed to track down the program by sheer luck. I happened to have a Tandy 1000SX hanging around with a 360k 5.25" floppy drive to read the data disks. Copied it all to a Virtual PC running DOS 3.3, worked great.
A sample of ye olde media from my library
Circa 1997 TDK Gold CD-Rs: They all work
Circa 1996 Phillips CD-R: Works fine, its even a multi-session disc.
Circa 2000 Ricoh CD-RW with my MP3 collection at the time: Seems to work just fine despite being in my car for over a year.
countless generic Ritek silver discs purchased in CompUSA and used 2001-2002 for audio CDs: All of them work despite being in my car in extreme hot and cold. One has the top silver flaking off because I dropped it on the ground.
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Cygwin and Mingw32 support automake, but I haven't had much luck with them. VS.NET isn't very pretty either if you need external libraries. Sometimes setting up the project file can be a headache, but at least I can get projects to compile.
The cartridge I have is moving magnet. At the time I bought the linear contact stylus, moving coil was very expensive. Typical MC carts require a "pre-preamp" to bring the output levels up to what a standard moving magnet cart would output.
As for the turntable, its basically an SL-1200 with automatic tone arm controls. Same "S" shaped tone arm and direct drive platter, although there is no quartz lock (older model). A linear tracking turntable is in theory the best tone arm setup as it places the stylus parallel to the groves of the record and reads both sides equally. Many folks really can't hear the difference between a linear tracking turntable and a traditional one with properly adjusted anti skate, but audiophiles have been known to be picky;)
The only hype machine for IBOC is the NAB. It was their comeback against satellite radio (which isn't doing so hot either). IBOC's audio advantage is negated by its other advantage.... sub-channels, which as you said aren't being used all that well. Instead of bringing new and innovative content to a radio market, the sub-channels are usually re-broadcasts of AM stations (yeah really) or duplication of formats already available on other stations.
DAB suffers from being an early standard. Kinda like how Europe decided to adopt GSM before something better came out to avoid a standards war. The audio is MPEG-1 Layer II. DRM+, IBOC, and the new DAB+ use modern CODECs designed for low bandwidth applications.
The closest I can find is iZotope RX. http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/rx/ The basic tools are the same, they are kinda vague on the extended feature set. The price seems higher too. Diamond Cut could be run on a VM or Boot Camp if needed otherwise.
The problem with USB turntables are the crap preamps. My own transfer setup is an old Technics SL-1300 direct drive with a high end "linear contact" Audio Technica AT331LP stylus (sadly since discontinued). Recording was done with a Soundblaster AWE64 Gold and later a Soundblaster Live! The quality was pretty good for a soundcard (noise was basically undetectable). The best digitizing solution is likely something USB as its away from the RF interference typical in computer cases.
Post processing (de-noise and de-click) is done with software called Diamond Cut ( http://www.diamondcut.com/ ). Its propose built audio restoration software, not a bunch of plug-ins for some random sound editing program. Highly recommended and comes with an excellent user's manual (covers all kinds of audio restoration techniques).
Mayxxx was making crap well before Whirlxxxx bought them out. This is based on first hand experience. People want cheap cheap cheap, so the design choices you mentioned were made to reach a price point.
They also tend to still have serial and parallel ports as well. No X58 board has them and very few P55 boards still have them. Despite what people here might say, some of us folks still use these ports. USB adapters don't work very well with most bi-directional parallel port devices and USB serial adapters have issues with timing sensitive devices.
Of course. The IIgs toolbox is newer by 2 years, enough time to find out what does/doesn't work with how it was done on the Mac. Less memory constraints too compared to the original Mac (256k upgradable to 8MB on the initial IIgs vs. 128k non-upgradable on the original Mac)
There are some of us who actually own HDMI capture cards. HDCP gets in the way of capturing some sources (like PS3 gameplay) that aren't copyrighted to begin with. There was a work around though. Basically you could trick the capture cards to send the HDCP handshake (the software that came with the card lets you view, but not record HDCP video) and then the video became unlocked for the capture session in VirtualDub.
Most malware nowadays isn't as "visible" as it once was. A lot of it is bot net clients working in the background or browser redirects. The stuff is a royal PITA to find and remove as well.
How many of these sites that were flagged as infected really are? Quite a few ad networks have "poisoned" ad banners in rotation that exploit Flash/Acrobat bugs and have malware payload... did any of these sites, that just happened to be showing one of those ads, get counted as infected?
I had Comcast@Home installed in 1997. Basically an uncapped 8/1 connection for $40/mo with equipment rental. By 2001 @Home collapsed and the system was over subscribed. A cap of 1.5m/384k was put into place once Comcast brought everything in house. There were some incremental speed increases, but nothing spectacular and the price only seemed to steadily increase. When I left for FiOS in 2007 I think Comcast was still capped at 3-4M/512k up on the regular tier. Cable really didn't become competitive until... well... competition in the form of FiOS showed up. Now I have a 30/30 connection to the house for ~$33/mo (part of a triple play deal).
Is there a point that more speed doesn't matter? Sure, YouTube is still pretty damned slow at 30Mbps. Most sites can't handle those speeds anyway. I have put the faster upload speeds to use though, very handy for online backups and umm... sharing of Linux distros on BitTorrent.
More like the price of copper has dropped and no longer sells for more then the labor costs of removal. When I had FiOS installed, I had the option to keep a line as copper (house has two lines) if I had a service/device that required it.
What guarantee does Verizon have that their VOIP is going to be more reliable than the cable company's VOIP?
Verizon actually has two phone services running side by side on FiOS right now. There is the "normal" service, which is literally just POTS over fiber. It has no special added features, they literally move your copper pair to fiber and nothing else so it should be the same reliability as copper POTS (in theory). There is also the new "FiOS Digital Voice" service which is apparently VoIP and offers all kinds of features like online voicemail and call management. Both use the POTS jacks on the ONT, the difference is at the switch.
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I am now prepping to transfer VHS,Betamax (only one thankfully), and 8mm tapes to DVD. Not an easy project as its not straight forward. I have a very good JVC SVHS VCR and need to buy a time-base correcter. Once the capturing to digital form is done (lossless compression) the next task is to correct any other problems (color etc.), compress to MPEG-2 and then author DVDs. Needless to say... I will be keeping the original tapes and uncompressed video along with several copies of the final DVDs.
I had to do this with a friend's Nutshell databases. I managed to track down the program by sheer luck. I happened to have a Tandy 1000SX hanging around with a 360k 5.25" floppy drive to read the data disks. Copied it all to a Virtual PC running DOS 3.3, worked great.
A sample of ye olde media from my library
Circa 1997 TDK Gold CD-Rs: They all work
Circa 1996 Phillips CD-R: Works fine, its even a multi-session disc.
Circa 2000 Ricoh CD-RW with my MP3 collection at the time: Seems to work just fine despite being in my car for over a year.
countless generic Ritek silver discs purchased in CompUSA and used 2001-2002 for audio CDs: All of them work despite being in my car in extreme hot and cold. One has the top silver flaking off because I dropped it on the ground.
The problem is the lack of good documentation.
Cygwin and Mingw32 support automake, but I haven't had much luck with them. VS.NET isn't very pretty either if you need external libraries. Sometimes setting up the project file can be a headache, but at least I can get projects to compile.
Does this support dependencies? I got a project that optionally needs to find things like FreeType and SDL.
The cartridge I have is moving magnet. At the time I bought the linear contact stylus, moving coil was very expensive. Typical MC carts require a "pre-preamp" to bring the output levels up to what a standard moving magnet cart would output.
As for the turntable, its basically an SL-1200 with automatic tone arm controls. Same "S" shaped tone arm and direct drive platter, although there is no quartz lock (older model). A linear tracking turntable is in theory the best tone arm setup as it places the stylus parallel to the groves of the record and reads both sides equally. Many folks really can't hear the difference between a linear tracking turntable and a traditional one with properly adjusted anti skate, but audiophiles have been known to be picky ;)
AM stereo actually sounds pretty good, particularly with music. Sadly it was never widely adopted.
The only hype machine for IBOC is the NAB. It was their comeback against satellite radio (which isn't doing so hot either). IBOC's audio advantage is negated by its other advantage.... sub-channels, which as you said aren't being used all that well. Instead of bringing new and innovative content to a radio market, the sub-channels are usually re-broadcasts of AM stations (yeah really) or duplication of formats already available on other stations.
DAB suffers from being an early standard. Kinda like how Europe decided to adopt GSM before something better came out to avoid a standards war. The audio is MPEG-1 Layer II. DRM+, IBOC, and the new DAB+ use modern CODECs designed for low bandwidth applications.
The closest I can find is iZotope RX. http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/rx/ The basic tools are the same, they are kinda vague on the extended feature set. The price seems higher too. Diamond Cut could be run on a VM or Boot Camp if needed otherwise.
The problem with USB turntables are the crap preamps. My own transfer setup is an old Technics SL-1300 direct drive with a high end "linear contact" Audio Technica AT331LP stylus (sadly since discontinued). Recording was done with a Soundblaster AWE64 Gold and later a Soundblaster Live! The quality was pretty good for a soundcard (noise was basically undetectable). The best digitizing solution is likely something USB as its away from the RF interference typical in computer cases.
Post processing (de-noise and de-click) is done with software called Diamond Cut ( http://www.diamondcut.com/ ). Its propose built audio restoration software, not a bunch of plug-ins for some random sound editing program. Highly recommended and comes with an excellent user's manual (covers all kinds of audio restoration techniques).
Gigabyte is one of the few companies that still equips their P55 boards with parallel and serial headers. Ironically Intel still sells a desktop board with a parallel and serial ports right on the backplate: http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/db-DQ57TML/DQ57TML-overview.htm
Mayxxx was making crap well before Whirlxxxx bought them out. This is based on first hand experience. People want cheap cheap cheap, so the design choices you mentioned were made to reach a price point.
They also tend to still have serial and parallel ports as well. No X58 board has them and very few P55 boards still have them. Despite what people here might say, some of us folks still use these ports. USB adapters don't work very well with most bi-directional parallel port devices and USB serial adapters have issues with timing sensitive devices.
Of course. The IIgs toolbox is newer by 2 years, enough time to find out what does/doesn't work with how it was done on the Mac. Less memory constraints too compared to the original Mac (256k upgradable to 8MB on the initial IIgs vs. 128k non-upgradable on the original Mac)
There are a few Chinese companies that are outsourcing manufacturing to the US... why? Better infrastructure. Things like electricity are more reliable and cheaper in the US. http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/news/international/china_america_full.fortune/index.htm
Actually, yes it is trivial. Slashdot gives me the option to remove them.
Kinda sad the Apple IIgs had a Mac style GUI in color before the Mac did.
There are some of us who actually own HDMI capture cards. HDCP gets in the way of capturing some sources (like PS3 gameplay) that aren't copyrighted to begin with. There was a work around though. Basically you could trick the capture cards to send the HDCP handshake (the software that came with the card lets you view, but not record HDCP video) and then the video became unlocked for the capture session in VirtualDub.
Most malware nowadays isn't as "visible" as it once was. A lot of it is bot net clients working in the background or browser redirects. The stuff is a royal PITA to find and remove as well.
How many of these sites that were flagged as infected really are? Quite a few ad networks have "poisoned" ad banners in rotation that exploit Flash/Acrobat bugs and have malware payload... did any of these sites, that just happened to be showing one of those ads, get counted as infected?
Most videos stop after a few seconds of playback. It lags pretty bad and I'm not even viewing HD video!
I had Comcast@Home installed in 1997. Basically an uncapped 8/1 connection for $40/mo with equipment rental. By 2001 @Home collapsed and the system was over subscribed. A cap of 1.5m/384k was put into place once Comcast brought everything in house. There were some incremental speed increases, but nothing spectacular and the price only seemed to steadily increase. When I left for FiOS in 2007 I think Comcast was still capped at 3-4M/512k up on the regular tier. Cable really didn't become competitive until... well... competition in the form of FiOS showed up. Now I have a 30/30 connection to the house for ~$33/mo (part of a triple play deal).
Is there a point that more speed doesn't matter? Sure, YouTube is still pretty damned slow at 30Mbps. Most sites can't handle those speeds anyway. I have put the faster upload speeds to use though, very handy for online backups and umm... sharing of Linux distros on BitTorrent.
More like the price of copper has dropped and no longer sells for more then the labor costs of removal. When I had FiOS installed, I had the option to keep a line as copper (house has two lines) if I had a service/device that required it.
What guarantee does Verizon have that their VOIP is going to be more reliable than the cable company's VOIP?
Verizon actually has two phone services running side by side on FiOS right now. There is the "normal" service, which is literally just POTS over fiber. It has no special added features, they literally move your copper pair to fiber and nothing else so it should be the same reliability as copper POTS (in theory). There is also the new "FiOS Digital Voice" service which is apparently VoIP and offers all kinds of features like online voicemail and call management. Both use the POTS jacks on the ONT, the difference is at the switch.