THE
CD RECORDER A Newsletter Produced & Published by Octave Systems,
Inc.
Vol. V, Issue #5
May, 2002 "Octave Systems
the Intelligent Choice"
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This Issue:
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A
Few Words from the President: "DVD movie copying"
As far as we know there is no way to copy a movie from a DVD and retain the same quality. Here are some of the reasons why not.
1 - DVD Recorders and media available to the public at the most can hold 4.7 GBs. Many DVD movie titles are double sided and possibly even double layered making the total storage nearly 20 GBs.
2 - The movie industry invested millions in ensuring it could not be done. The main piece of the puzzle that prevents this is macro vision a method of encrypting the video signals making them very difficult to copy.
We have seen advertising for DVD copying software. The ad will claim that the software can copy any DVD movie titles. What they do not tell you is the quality of the output is much lower. Many of them copy to the Video CD format which is very popular in Asia
Even if you could copy a DVD movie and maintain the quality, by the time that you buy the media, the burner, and your time are you really saving any money? DVD movies are not that expensive… lets give the studios a break for a change.
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DVD
CD Knowledge Center "Just an Idea"
I run a local fishing club web site: www.georgianfishing.com. I recently added the ability for the members to upload photos. The problem was they were having a heck of a time getting the pictures compressed even though I linked a tutorial on compressing and re-sizing graphics.
They had the tools in place, but not the knowledge. So I made a video of me going through the steps of compressing and re-sizing a picture. There is this great open source program called CamStudio, I found it on www.download.com, it follows your mouse around recording everything you do into a video. The quality was shockingly good; however the size was too much. So I set the compression high and managed to get a smaller file size, 2 MBs, but the quality is poor.
http://www.georgianfishing.com/compress_pics.asp - if you have high-speed access you can download the second video, if not download the first one.
The only problem with this is most of the members are on dial-up. So the question remains on how to deliver the video. I'm going to make a bunch of videos on what to do and burn them to a CD and then duplicate several. The CDs can be given out to their members. Then I started to wonder if anyone out there has done this on a commercial level, maybe tutorials on using high-end software such as PhotoShop 6.0. When I was learning the art of web development would I have subscribed to a service on how to use PhotoShop 6.0 where I received a new CD every month with videos on how to do things in PhotoShop 6.0? Maybe… no lets make that yes!
Only if I had more time! As I said… just an idea…
J.P. Avery
Webmaster
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CD Copy Master Update: "Brussels in California"
Please extend a big welcome to Roni. She is currently at Octave learning the ins and outs of the CD Copy Master. She will be heading back to Brussels to head up the assembly and distribution of the CD Copy Master in Europe.
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Specials:
"Free Shipping: EZ/CD Printer $395.00"
EZ/CDPrint is the first affordable, high resolution color inkjet printer that not only prints on paper but also on a compact disc surface. EZCDPrint prints directly on your CD-R / DVD-R without labels.
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Question
& Answer Forum:
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Can the Sony CRX175A2/C1 24x10x40 IDE burn CDs off the computer's memory? |
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When you say burn off the computer's memory what do you mean exactly - from RAM or what?
The CDX175 is a CD Recorder and with proper software can burn CDs from hard disk or other CD Roms.
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Has any company or individual yet come up with an inexpensive kit or process to silkscreen CD labels at home? |
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There is no such item that we know of at this time. There are many ways of putting labels on CDs including paper labels through inkjet printing to thermal transfer. Screen printers are generally used in very high production environments but the machines cost many tens of thousands of dollars. |
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When I covert/copy audio CDs to the hard disc, the default setting is to save the tracks as high-quality .wav files. These are 50 MBs or more. My hard disc is getting filled up. Should I be saving them in some other format? Can I go for lower "resolution" and still get satisfactory results?
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Covert them into MP3, about 3-4 MBs per 3-4 mins of song. Use Nero, Real Player or WinAmp… |
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Where can I get a CD that can hold 11 hours of music?
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The music would need to be recorded in MP3 format. So any CD-R media will hold approximately 11 hours of music. Note that the CD will only be playable on CD players capable of playing MP3 CDs.
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I just bought 8cm CD-R's at a computer show. Can I format them into CD-RW's?
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CDR and CDRW disks are totally different in that CDRW uses a dye that is erasable and CDR uses another one that is not. What you are asking is somewhat like trying to make a phonograph record (if you are old enough to remember them) erasable and re-useable. Just can't be done.
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