Well, if you do this to use a VHS tape as an SVHS tape, the quality will not be quite as good.
If you do this to go from SVHS to DVHS, if the 'tape quality' is not good enough, you should get no signal at all, or one with constant dropouts.
If you can find a tape that crosses that threshold, you should be good to go, but I would be nervous about integrity after sitting on a shelf for a few years. (Don't do it for anything important!)
And while we're on the subject: why is it called "Hydro Ottawa"? Why do people think that "hydro" = electricity? "Hydro" means water! I expect a "hydro" company to supply my faucets, not my electrical outlets!
Probably because a great dael of power comes from hydroelectricity generated at Niagara Falls, by The Formerly Crown Corporation Formerly Known As Ontario Hydro.
The word gets a bit diluted by people paying their "Hydro Bill" each month..
You don't need to do anything special -- just set up SSL and issue yourself a certificate.
Any web browser will warn strongly that the certificate is not issued by a trusted organization, but you said you don't need to prove your identity, so this should perfectly suit your needs.
Don't be so sure..
Our televisions are designed for the North American market. I doubt the manufacturers will disable the flag "feature" for Canadian sets only..
That means that even if the CRTC doesn't create similar rules, most TVs will respect the flag anyway.
Canada isn't any better. They have a some serious censorship problems. Especially when it comes to radio broadcasting. And you'd be a fool to think that their RIAA/MPAA equivelant is any different. They have absurd royalty and copyright problems just like America. Not to mention, bizarre taxation of blank media.
1. Radio Censorship.
Are you talking about the CanCon (Canadian Content) regulations? This is hardly censorship by any definition of the word. One could say that censorship is the suppression of undesirable ideas.
CanCon doesn't do that -- the rule is something like 35% of radio content must be Canadian in origin. This does not mean you can not express certain (American) ideas; a radio station is free to play $CONTROVERSIAL_AMERICAN_PROGRAM instead of $MINDLESS_BRITNEY_SPEARS_POP if they are borderline on filling their Canadian Content quota.
If you are referring the CRTC's decision not to renew CHOI-FM's license, well, appearantly the stuff they ran makes Howard Stern look like a children's program. Either way, there is a difference between holding an unpopular/controversial viewpoint and being mindlessly offensive.
2. Royalty/copyright/media levy I'm not entirely sure of what the "absurd royalty and copyright problems" you claim are. There is a 21 cent ($CDN) levy on CD-Rs. This is supposed to 'recoup losses'. In turn, private copying of music (even from a source you do not own, i.e. a friend's CD or the Internet) is explicitly legal. In addition the courts have repeatedly told CRIA that they can not have the names of 'suspected file sharers'. This decisions should make it rather difficult for CRIA/CMPDA (Canadian Motion Pictures Distribution Association) to actually sue file sharers, since they can't get their contact information.
Seems a lot less absurb than Americans being sued left and right..
This site says it was adapted into a short animated film in 1982, so you're probably right.
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Those are unwarranted expectations. An analogy would be cars designed on the assumption that drivers understand how internal combustion engines work. Few of us would be able to drive safely if that was a prerequisite.
Since everyone loves analogies -- especially car ones -- I think a better one would be expecting people to tell the difference between a gear shift lever (on steering column) and turn signal lever. Both look pretty much the same, if you don't know what you are looking at.
It seems reasonable enough to me to know which does what.
Upon rereading, it seems to me that there never was a TrekToday story about Star Trek: Enterprise being cancelled, only a story about the denial of rumours about the cancellation.
So, what article were the editors reading when they posted the story? The way the Slashdot story is phrased implies that it is absolute truth that Enterprise is cancelled; the article suggests that it is a load of crap.
SANE is network-aware.. You can access scanners remotely with it. I'm not sure of its status on Windows at the moment, but I think it works with at least SCSI scanners in Windows.
Certainly Windows frontends like SaneTwain will work with any sort of SANE supported scanner if it is on a Linux or other *NIX backend.
NTSC material from film on DVD can either be hard telecined (i.e. the source is interlaced, no inverse telecine has performed) or 24p with the appropriate flags set in the MPEG file.
24p material is indicated using a standard, repeating pattern of toggling on and off the top field first and repeat first field flags. A regular DVD player will simply follow these instructions, producing 3:2 output.
A progressive player will see the pattern of flags and know that the video is 24p, outputting it as such. The video is encoded as 24 whole frames per second -- it is simply flagged so that the DVD player outputs 29.97fps.
Now the difference in progressive players comes into effect when you are talking about playing back material that has been hard telecined -- television shows shot on film are a good example, since they tend to be edited on video -- some have a far better inverse telecine filter than others.
ZeD is a "media convergence experiment", i.e. a website and TV show on the CBC at 11:25pm. It runs for 40 minutes, commercial-free, and shows short films, documentaries, independent music acts, mostly Canadian.
The content is (mostly) available on the rather nifty website; most of the show's content originates from it. Think DeviantART, except for all types of media, and with a TV show that showcases the best of it.
But it WORKS on the Mac -- in the application switcher-menu-thingy (what is it called, anyway?) there is ONE entry for each application -- select Photoshop and ALL of the Photoshop windows surface to the top.
If you have multiple windows on-screen at once and you click on a different one, the Photoshop palettes disappear until you click on the main Photoshop window again.
Under Windows/Linux, in the GIMP each palette is treated as a seperate window. They don't all stay on the same plane. This sucks bigtime. It's probably why under Windows Photoshop's palettes are contained within a massive Photoshop window.
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Plone is far too complicated for what you want, I think.
Try (in order of least to most favorite): Typo3, WebGUI, or preferrably (in my opinion) eZ Publish.
eZ Publish requires more setup, but is considerably more flexible than the others in my list.
Any capture/TV viewing program with works with WDM drivers (i.e. any reasonably modern program) will with with your card. (I am assuming it is an All-in-Wonder)
If you want a program for TV viewing/PVR functions, SnapStream or BeyondTV should work for you.
No, it isn't open-source.. but then again most people don't really need a standalone program to WATCH TV on their computer, since most people are interested in recording it (of which the GPL'd Virtual VCR will do excellently).
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If you do this to go from SVHS to DVHS, if the 'tape quality' is not good enough, you should get no signal at all, or one with constant dropouts.
If you can find a tape that crosses that threshold, you should be good to go, but I would be nervous about integrity after sitting on a shelf for a few years. (Don't do it for anything important!)
I've never met one left handed person (myself included) who uses the mouse in their left hand.
It is just too much of a pain to use someone elses' computer.
I'm sure people who use their mouse in their left hand exist, but they must be rare..
Probably because a great dael of power comes from hydroelectricity generated at Niagara Falls, by The Formerly Crown Corporation Formerly Known As Ontario Hydro.
The word gets a bit diluted by people paying their "Hydro Bill" each month..
You don't need to do anything special -- just set up SSL and issue yourself a certificate.
Any web browser will warn strongly that the certificate is not issued by a trusted organization, but you said you don't need to prove your identity, so this should perfectly suit your needs.
That means that even if the CRTC doesn't create similar rules, most TVs will respect the flag anyway.
Are you talking about the CanCon (Canadian Content) regulations? This is hardly censorship by any definition of the word. One could say that censorship is the suppression of undesirable ideas.
CanCon doesn't do that -- the rule is something like 35% of radio content must be Canadian in origin. This does not mean you can not express certain (American) ideas; a radio station is free to play $CONTROVERSIAL_AMERICAN_PROGRAM instead of $MINDLESS_BRITNEY_SPEARS_POP if they are borderline on filling their Canadian Content quota.
If you are referring the CRTC's decision not to renew CHOI-FM's license, well, appearantly the stuff they ran makes Howard Stern look like a children's program. Either way, there is a difference between holding an unpopular/controversial viewpoint and being mindlessly offensive.
2. Royalty/copyright/media levy
I'm not entirely sure of what the "absurd royalty and copyright problems" you claim are. There is a 21 cent ($CDN) levy on CD-Rs. This is supposed to 'recoup losses'. In turn, private copying of music (even from a source you do not own, i.e. a friend's CD or the Internet) is explicitly legal. In addition the courts have repeatedly told CRIA that they can not have the names of 'suspected file sharers'. This decisions should make it rather difficult for CRIA/CMPDA (Canadian Motion Pictures Distribution Association) to actually sue file sharers, since they can't get their contact information.
Seems a lot less absurb than Americans being sued left and right..
This site says it was adapted into a short animated film in 1982, so you're probably right.
It seems reasonable enough to me to know which does what.
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Upon rereading, it seems to me that there never was a TrekToday story about Star Trek: Enterprise being cancelled, only a story about the denial of rumours about the cancellation.
So, what article were the editors reading when they posted the story? The way the Slashdot story is phrased implies that it is absolute truth that Enterprise is cancelled; the article suggests that it is a load of crap.
So what I want to know is, did anyone at Slashdot even READ the fine article before a story about it?
A company's own website can't make that claim.
Certainly Windows frontends like SaneTwain will work with any sort of SANE supported scanner if it is on a Linux or other *NIX backend.
NTSC material from film on DVD can either be hard telecined (i.e. the source is interlaced, no inverse telecine has performed) or 24p with the appropriate flags set in the MPEG file.
24p material is indicated using a standard, repeating pattern of toggling on and off the top field first and repeat first field flags. A regular DVD player will simply follow these instructions, producing 3:2 output.
A progressive player will see the pattern of flags and know that the video is 24p, outputting it as such. The video is encoded as 24 whole frames per second -- it is simply flagged so that the DVD player outputs 29.97fps.
Now the difference in progressive players comes into effect when you are talking about playing back material that has been hard telecined -- television shows shot on film are a good example, since they tend to be edited on video -- some have a far better inverse telecine filter than others.
The content is (mostly) available on the rather nifty website; most of the show's content originates from it. Think DeviantART, except for all types of media, and with a TV show that showcases the best of it.
If you have multiple windows on-screen at once and you click on a different one, the Photoshop palettes disappear until you click on the main Photoshop window again.
Under Windows/Linux, in the GIMP each palette is treated as a seperate window. They don't all stay on the same plane. This sucks bigtime. It's probably why under Windows Photoshop's palettes are contained within a massive Photoshop window.
Try (in order of least to most favorite): Typo3, WebGUI, or preferrably (in my opinion) eZ Publish.
eZ Publish requires more setup, but is considerably more flexible than the others in my list.
If you want a program for TV viewing/PVR functions, SnapStream or BeyondTV should work for you.
No, it isn't open-source.. but then again most people don't really need a standalone program to WATCH TV on their computer, since most people are interested in recording it (of which the GPL'd Virtual VCR will do excellently).
It would be pretty irresponsible of Yahoo to write a spider that downloads complete videos from peoples' websites.
At least Future Shop/Best Buy (the owners) are slightly less evil than Wal-mart.
Besides? What happens if the GPS receiver isn't able to get a fix on its' position (happens sometimes)? The plane is not going to drop out of the sky.