A wise tip to those tesla builders...my friend had some plans for a tesla coil and was going to build one for Sci Fair (we're both in a research and development class), but after talking to his dad realized how frigging dangerous the things are, and apparently with enough voltage or somthing (i'm not sure, it's his dad who has the Phd in electronic engenerring) you can give yourself cancer if close enough+high enough voltage/x-rays...yeah. Just stay away from teslas in general.
There's actually several systems out there for backing up your HD to VHS, upto 8 gigs i believe, although it isn't digital. They run ads for them in those Tiger Computing or whatever magazines, and occasionally Microwarehouse. I'm listening to spybreak right now so it's kinda messing up my thought process, but i'm sure with the VHS backup, you could abuse the original purposes, a CSS encoder, firewire, vid out and a dig8 tape some how. yeah.
Ok, i read somthing about this about 3 days ago, and thought that the story of "Release on DVD when lucas has time to do 'special' things with this movie" was total BS and cover for the fact that if he were moronic enough to go out and release his latest baby, it would be ripped by anybody who was reasonably bright enough to go grab DeCSS while it was easy to find (and still is, in two minutes searching on yahoo, i found at least 3 sites with working copies of DeCSS on angelfire)(no i won't email you the addy or zip file with it). If you *really* want a digital copy of TPM, talk to the guy who fixes computers in the back room of your local small-time computer store, and ask for a copy. I can't tell you if that will work in your part of the world, but I'll just tell you that my DVD of TPM has Indian subtitles. Hadlock's point boiled down: If you release a movie that is directed mostly to the technology/sci-fi part of society, it *will* be ripped. Lucas is waiting for the ripping problems to go away first. Note: Just so i don't get flamed too much, if you decide to go ask bob the computer repair man for a copy of TPM, please send a $100 check to LucasFilm or some such. We do have copyrights in this world. Respect them (to an extent).
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A wise tip to those tesla builders...my friend had some plans for a tesla coil and was going to build one for Sci Fair (we're both in a research and development class), but after talking to his dad realized how frigging dangerous the things are, and apparently with enough voltage or somthing (i'm not sure, it's his dad who has the Phd in electronic engenerring) you can give yourself cancer if close enough+high enough voltage/x-rays...yeah. Just stay away from teslas in general.
There's actually several systems out there for backing up your HD to VHS, upto 8 gigs i believe, although it isn't digital. They run ads for them in those Tiger Computing or whatever magazines, and occasionally Microwarehouse. I'm listening to spybreak right now so it's kinda messing up my thought process, but i'm sure with the VHS backup, you could abuse the original purposes, a CSS encoder, firewire, vid out and a dig8 tape some how. yeah.
Ok, i read somthing about this about 3 days ago, and thought that the story of "Release on DVD when lucas has time to do 'special' things with this movie" was total BS and cover for the fact that if he were moronic enough to go out and release his latest baby, it would be ripped by anybody who was reasonably bright enough to go grab DeCSS while it was easy to find (and still is, in two minutes searching on yahoo, i found at least 3 sites with working copies of DeCSS on angelfire)(no i won't email you the addy or zip file with it). If you *really* want a digital copy of TPM, talk to the guy who fixes computers in the back room of your local small-time computer store, and ask for a copy. I can't tell you if that will work in your part of the world, but I'll just tell you that my DVD of TPM has Indian subtitles. Hadlock's point boiled down: If you release a movie that is directed mostly to the technology/sci-fi part of society, it *will* be ripped. Lucas is waiting for the ripping problems to go away first. Note: Just so i don't get flamed too much, if you decide to go ask bob the computer repair man for a copy of TPM, please send a $100 check to LucasFilm or some such. We do have copyrights in this world. Respect them (to an extent).