[bonesmccoy]

Dude...Hollywood is dead. With the DVD rippers and new MediaCenterPC's, you can pop out a secondary CD drive and insert a DVD drive. Reinitialize and begin ripping "home movies" on DVD.

Cool isn't it?

You just have to make sure your family and friends have DVD players on their TV's that read DVD-RAM DVD's.

There are several different DVD standards.

Freepers who are into home production (like that David Dennis dude) should get into MediaCenter PC's from Gateway, HP, or Alienware.

Alienware looks a little souped up for need. After all, NTSC TV frames are not as sophisticated as rendering 3-D graphics on the fly with thousands of polygons per sec.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Fascinating!

[krb]

You just have to make sure your family and friends have DVD players on their TV's that read DVD-RAM DVD's. There are several different DVD standards.

NO!!!! Of all of the competing standards, you happened to name the one of them that doesn't work in DVD players at all!!!

DVD-R and DVD+R (and the respective +/- RW) are the ones that do 4.7GB of data and will also play in most DVD players. DVD-RAM is the one that is strictly data and will not play in players under any circumstance.

If I had to choose today, I'd get the Sony drive that does both + and - R.

[dennisw]

Freepers who are into home production (like that David Dennis dude) should get into MediaCenter PC's from Gateway, HP, or Alienware.
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RIGHT. I saw a very cool one from Alienware. A super enhanced tivo and much more for $1599.

[Dan Day]

Dude...Hollywood is dead. With the DVD rippers and new MediaCenterPC's, you can pop out a secondary CD drive and insert a DVD drive. Reinitialize and begin ripping "home movies" on DVD.

And how many people are going to be able to make "home movies" as worth watching as a big-budget Hollywood film? Not many of us can hire top-notch actors, afford to film "on location", or hire the services of a special-effects house, world-class cinematographer, costume designer, etc. etc.

There's a reason you see the names of *hundreds* of people in the credits of a major movie.

Hollywood's going to be around for many years to come.