It's really pretty easy. So is capture from television.
I have a WinTV card and cap in VirtualDub then compress it. Shiit, 330 megs? I, quite regularly in fact, archive 45 minute shows to a 700 meg CD. That's much better quality.
Now that CD's are cheap, why not? I mean, until we have DVD burners, might as well make do, right?
In any event, a few people I know have been archiving Mystery Science Theater 3000 shows on CD's. It's nice to have an episode on a 700 meg CD, but if it were up to me, I'd be tossing all these old episodes on DVD-R.
The quality of DivX movies (though DivX is crap, it's a hack of a beta Microsoft MPEG4v3 codec, back when it was a buggy piece of shit; MSMPEG4v2 is MUCH better and gives better quality) is nice right now, but it would be much better if we got some nice high density storage!
The Apple GF3 is shipping in the end of March or beginning of April. This is probably to coincide with the release of OS X.
Look at this info about the PC NV20, Geforce3 that is:
NV20 Pictures: http://www.geocities.com/tnaw_xtennis/GF3pics.htm
NV20 Specs in detail: http://www.digit-life.com/articles/nv20/index.html
ASUS V8200 & Elsa Gladiac 920 Info: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/#982608161
Hercules 3D Prophet III box-picture:
http://www.vc-news.com/images/proph3.jpg
Hercules 3D Prophet III 128 MB-version rumor:
http://www.vc-news.com/news.asp?date=2%2F19%2F2001 #3840
Hercules 3D Prophet III, April 14th release date, $599 price, rumor:
http://www.vc-news.com/news.asp?date=2%2F19%2F2001 #3837
NV20 vs. NV10 full-scene-antialiasing-comparison-screenshots:
http://www.m3dzone.com/article.php?sid=98
NV20 Q3 1024x768 4x4 FSAA, 70 FPS, Info:
http://www.nvnews.net/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000561.html
Date of launch party: Feb 26th, Paris.
Date for end of NDA: Feb 27th, expect reviews on all major hardware-sites.
and THIS story from Feb 13th:
"It appears that the next generation chipset from NVIDIA will be named the GeForce3. If this story over at NVchips-fr is on the up and up.
According to the report, the pic appears to be real and some shops in Switzerland already have the card in their price list for around 500$. It also says that the GeForce3 will appear in stores around the end of February or beginning of March. Thanks for the tip Tanguy!
So who's going to order one
Update: I received word from a reliable source that CompUSA has the Guillemot 3D Prophet III logged in their system as SKU# 282126 with a retail price of $599. Hopefully this is a feature rich card (TV-Out, DVI, modified Blue Orb?) as Hercules products typically command a premium price. Keep in mind that the 3D Prophet II Ultra sells for $499 at CompUSA online.
Update II: I received a confirmation from a CompUSA Corporate Sales Manager that the SKU# for the GeForce3 is valid.
Update III: I've removed the image of the Hercules 3D Prophet III box shot at the request of Top D Computers."
Worst case scenario, they will be launched in mid March, but you won't see Apple roll the GF3 out until late March w/ OS X.
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Under 5 megabytes a second, sorry. You're wrong on this one.
Not to mention the fact that 16x DVD drives are all over the place...
http://www.divx-digest.com
It's really pretty easy. So is capture from television.
I have a WinTV card and cap in VirtualDub then compress it. Shiit, 330 megs? I, quite regularly in fact, archive 45 minute shows to a 700 meg CD. That's much better quality.
Now that CD's are cheap, why not? I mean, until we have DVD burners, might as well make do, right?
In any event, a few people I know have been archiving Mystery Science Theater 3000 shows on CD's. It's nice to have an episode on a 700 meg CD, but if it were up to me, I'd be tossing all these old episodes on DVD-R.
The quality of DivX movies (though DivX is crap, it's a hack of a beta Microsoft MPEG4v3 codec, back when it was a buggy piece of shit; MSMPEG4v2 is MUCH better and gives better quality) is nice right now, but it would be much better if we got some nice high density storage!
Proprietary hardware. Only their OS can run on their hardware, and only on their hardware can their OS run.
I think that part of the problem he's addressing is that there may be controversy over what SHOULD be the "automatic" or "beginner" install's fs.
The Apple GF3 is shipping in the end of March or beginning of April. This is probably to coincide with the release of OS X. Look at this info about the PC NV20, Geforce3 that is: NV20 Pictures: http://www.geocities.com/tnaw_xtennis/GF3pics.htm NV20 Specs in detail: http://www.digit-life.com/articles/nv20/index.html
ASUS V8200 & Elsa Gladiac 920 Info: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/#982608161
Hercules 3D Prophet III box-picture:
http://www.vc-news.com/images/proph3.jpg
Hercules 3D Prophet III 128 MB-version rumor:
http://www.vc-news.com/news.asp?date=2%2F19%2F2001 #3840
Hercules 3D Prophet III, April 14th release date, $599 price, rumor:
http://www.vc-news.com/news.asp?date=2%2F19%2F2001 #3837
NV20 vs. NV10 full-scene-antialiasing-comparison-screenshots:
http://www.m3dzone.com/article.php?sid=98
NV20 Q3 1024x768 4x4 FSAA, 70 FPS, Info:
http://www.nvnews.net/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000561.html
Date of launch party: Feb 26th, Paris.
Date for end of NDA: Feb 27th, expect reviews on all major hardware-sites.
and THIS story from Feb 13th:
"It appears that the next generation chipset from NVIDIA will be named the GeForce3. If this story over at NVchips-fr is on the up and up.
According to the report, the pic appears to be real and some shops in Switzerland already have the card in their price list for around 500$. It also says that the GeForce3 will appear in stores around the end of February or beginning of March. Thanks for the tip Tanguy!
So who's going to order one
Update: I received word from a reliable source that CompUSA has the Guillemot 3D Prophet III logged in their system as SKU# 282126 with a retail price of $599. Hopefully this is a feature rich card (TV-Out, DVI, modified Blue Orb?) as Hercules products typically command a premium price. Keep in mind that the 3D Prophet II Ultra sells for $499 at CompUSA online.
Update II: I received a confirmation from a CompUSA Corporate Sales Manager that the SKU# for the GeForce3 is valid.
Update III: I've removed the image of the Hercules 3D Prophet III box shot at the request of Top D Computers."
Worst case scenario, they will be launched in mid March, but you won't see Apple roll the GF3 out until late March w/ OS X.
350 above the 150 bucks they charge for the standard video card.