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  1. John_Berger

    analog video capture

    I use the Pinnacle Deluxe. It's an AV/DV bridge that captures and displays both composite and S-Video. Works beautifully and I'd recommend it to anyone. Okay, I am big time confused. Where does this even come into play with Ted's question? :confused:
  2. John_Berger

    Question for Vince or other PC recording gurus

    Why bother? The problem is definitely in the PC itself! (:D Sorry. I had to.) If you have an electrician's store in your area, there should be devices out there to determine if an outlet is grounded or not. I doubt these will be cheap, but I would hope that your church would pay for it...
  3. John_Berger

    CD-ROM & DVD-ROM drives suddenly do not appear under "My Computer" ? What's wrong?

    If both of the drives are on the same IDE controller and the BIOS does not detect them, it is possible that the controller has partilly died. If the drives are not there, Windows should not show them at all in either Control Panel or Windows Explorer. So, the fact that Windows is detecting the...
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    Question for Vince or other PC recording gurus

    I'm not sure how you define "rather old", but you might be out of luck. Many "old" buildings (even as young as 30 years old) did not incorporate three-wire electrical connections. The hot and neutral are present for you to get the electricty, but the ground wire is not present. So, it is very...
  5. John_Berger

    Question for Vince or other PC recording gurus

    Also, if the problem is indeed a mono-to-stereo issue like I describe in my second post, Radio Shack does sell mono-to-stereo adapters to prevent the grounding from directly connecting to the "middle" audio section of the plug.
  6. John_Berger

    Question for Vince or other PC recording gurus

    No. This is purely a case of electromagnetic principles. You are using electrical equipment that is likely not grounded yet a ground needs to be available. I have run into this numerous times before. For example, I can have a device plugged into an outlet with no grounding abilities and I'll get...
  7. John_Berger

    God I hate PayPal

    Oh, well. I've never had a problem with them. I've made over 100 transactions, both sending and receiving, and can't say that I've ever experienced a problem. Am I in the minority on this?
  8. John_Berger

    Question for Vince or other PC recording gurus

    Yeah, that pretty much clinches it as improper grounding.
  9. John_Berger

    Hard Drive: how to hush it?

    Then you get different hard drives across the Pond than I do. ;) I'm running some systems with hard drives that are four or five years old and the only thing that can be heard is the fan, which is not all that loud at all.
  10. John_Berger

    Hard Drive: how to hush it?

    That's not good. Hard drives shouldn't be noisy at all. What kind of noise is it? Is it a high pitched whine?
  11. John_Berger

    Buck Rogers (TV) seems to be on tap- still no sign of Rockford or Kolchak

    It's not in the first seaon, but everything time I think of Erin Gray, I only think "Off-think, off-think, off-think." :D
  12. John_Berger

    Anyone Else Have High Blood Pressure?

    I can only go on my own personal experience obviously, but about six months ago my BP was about 138/91 which is borderline not good. I read in a lot of medical books and magazines about how lecithin (found naturally in soybeans) can reduce blood pressure and cholestrol. I changed nothing in my...
  13. John_Berger

    Disposable DVD off to a slow start

    Let's see. Disney loses Roy; Disney loses Pixar; Disney loses EZ-D. When will Disney lose the people that come up with crap like this?
  14. John_Berger

    Disney, Pixar to go separate ways

    It's about time. Maybe now Pixar can retain the trademarks on their characters like Eric alluded to.
  15. John_Berger

    Dead Whale Explodes on Taiwanese Street

    Oh, man, I forgot about that!!
  16. John_Berger

    Email problem?

    It's the new MyDoom virus that's going around. All e-mails that are supposedly from you are forged. These f**king a-holes who write these things really should be enough to justify socially acceptable homicide. Now if only we could get the f**king morons of the world to stop opening...
  17. John_Berger

    Who burns their home movies to DVD?

    Okay, what am I missing here? Guys, please, lay off the expensive stuff, all right? Just because you use it and know HOW to use it doesn't mean that it's automatically perfect for Travis. I think that many of us lose sight of the fact that expensive does NOT always equal "more suitable to the...
  18. John_Berger

    You know it's too cold out when:

    That picture is very cool, no pun intended! Thankfully, it doesn't get that cold here. :)
  19. John_Berger

    Who burns their home movies to DVD?

    Your DVD writer will come with the software necessary to do this as long as you buy a retail (not OEM) package. Pinnacle Studio 8 is very good for what you want to do. Ulead and Sonic have some good products out there to do it as well.
  20. John_Berger

    Hard drive displaying wrong size

    MBR is the Master Boot Record. It holds information regarding how to boot the operating system from that drive. It should not have any impact if the drive if not used for being a boot drive. I am much more concerned about the 128 MB detection. Definitely check for an Auto setting in the...
  21. John_Berger

    Arrrrgh...Movie Piracy: A Big Deal?

    I'm not even going to bother lest the admins accuse me of picking a fight. Believe what you want.
  22. John_Berger

    This :rolleyes: smiley is less offensive no?

    Then you missed the one that got barred from someone's signature about a year ago because the sensitive ones complained about it.
  23. John_Berger

    Dexter's Lab crosses the line

    But that statement wasn't? Uh, okay.
  24. John_Berger

    Are Sony, and others invested in Blu-Ray playing fairly???

    I'll try to ask the question that was asked in the appropriately deleted statement -- but without the totally unnecessary, political rhetoric that the original poster used. But since when is that an issue that deserves intervention by the U.S. Justice Department? The idea of usurping one...
  25. John_Berger

    Arrrrgh...Movie Piracy: A Big Deal?

    And get off your self-appointed, holier-than-thou, self-righteous high horse while you're at it, officer.
  26. John_Berger

    Dexter's Lab crosses the line

    Don't forget "Tom and Jerry". Those two were continually beating the tar out of each other. My God, I have a sudden urge to slam my cat's face with an iron! It's MGM's fault! :D
  27. John_Berger

    This :rolleyes: smiley is less offensive no?

    Nuh-uh! Blame Nick! It was his thread that prompted me to post it! He owes you a keyboard -- and I think that it should be one of those translucent, membrane-style keyboards that glow brilliantly in the dark. A wireless mouse would work, too. Hey, if Nick's buying... :D
  28. John_Berger

    DVD Mastering Help-mpeg conversion?

    Ulead DVD Workshop has an option to not re-encode compatible files as long as all of your DVD settings are identical to your MPEG file. Even the wrong audio bit rate will cause it to re-encode, but I've never had a sync problems because of it. I've never had sync problems with Sonic DVDit...
  29. John_Berger

    Hollywood, will you PLEASE retire the Wilhelm scream!?

    :laugh: I'm not sure which is worse, though.
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