Re: Re: Pinnacle ShowCenter + PVR

[Tony Butler <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting keyvan2r <keyvan@xxxxxxx>:
> > I would be very interested to know what you think of the
> ShowCenter,

Not arrived yet :(

> > > cat5 wired), but this one made me stop and reconsider. I am
> building a 2 Tb server to rip my dvd's onto.

Nice!  Would you say disk prices have dropped enough to make this viable? 
I
was gonna do that about 6 months ago, but it was still too expensive to rip
@
dvd quality.  Am thinking of highest quality DivX or XDiv at the moment for
a
lot of stuff (ie swmbo's and the kids!) as it does seem fairly acceptable,
with
full strength DVD rips for proper films lit alien/t2/american beauty :)

> > How are you planning to use Showcenter??
Music + dvd's mainly - dunno about the picture side of things.
I know what you mean about ripping the dvd's to one format and then needing
another one - I had that problem with my audio collection.  Initially
ripped in
WMA because I found I preferred the sound and the Audiotron supports it
natively.
Had to go through an exercise recently to re-rip because not everything
supports wma natively.  What I have done now is rip an "Archive"
of WMA
lossless files, and then batch converted them to MP3 for day to day use.
I also have low bitrate MP3 of some of the collection for playing on my
PDA....
The price/space requirements of audio mean this doubling up doesn't cost
significantly more, and I can convert the lossless files to any format I
like
in the future....
DVD-wise is a different story altogether of course :(  Dunno wot to do yet.

cheers,

T.