World Police
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May 25th, 2007, 11:27 AM
Juan,
If the DVD is encoded correctly, it should play on your set top dvd player as well.
Something you might look at getting though is a media streaming device, which commincatedswith your pc and can stream music/movies/pictures to your TV. Something like this: http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=318
Juan,
If the DVD is encoded correctly, it should play on your set top dvd player as well.
Something you might look at getting though is a media streaming device, which commincatedswith your pc and can stream music/movies/pictures to your TV. Something like this: http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=318
Chief Mogrifier
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May 25th, 2007, 12:05 PM
Quoting DurkaDurka
There must be something I'm missing. How does one encode a DVD? Is there a program that does this? Is the encoding done during the download or after you have the movie in your hard drive
Juan,
If the DVD is encoded correctly, it should play on your set top dvd player as well.
Something you might look at getting though is a media streaming device, which commincatedswith your pc and can stream music/movies/pictures to your TV. Something like this: http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=318
If the DVD is encoded correctly, it should play on your set top dvd player as well.
Something you might look at getting though is a media streaming device, which commincatedswith your pc and can stream music/movies/pictures to your TV. Something like this: http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=318
World Police
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May 25th, 2007, 12:27 PM
Quoting #juan
Juan, I take it that you are downloading divx rips of DVD's, what I would suggest is you download an iso image of the dvd instead, an image is an exact duplicate of the original DVD. Using Nero, you can then burn the image to DVD, which will be playable on any dvd player
There must be something I'm missing. How does one encode a DVD? Is there a program that does this? Is the encoding done during the download or after you have the movie in your hard drive
Chief Mogrifier
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May 25th, 2007, 12:38 PM
Quoting DurkaDurka
Thanks...I will give that a try. Can you get that kind image from the usual Torrent sites?
Juan, I take it that you are downloading divx rips of DVD's, what I would suggest is you download an iso image of the dvd instead, an image is an exact duplicate of the original DVD. Using Nero, you can then burn the image to DVD, which will be playable on any dvd player
Chief Mogrifier
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May 25th, 2007, 12:41 PM
My computer room is upstairs and at the other end of the house and I didn't want to run a fifty foot usb cable.....but thanks
Quoting Twila
Twila
Juan, we hook our computer up directly to our tv and watch the movies we've downloaded through that. Looks great. Sounds good. As long as the download is good quality. We just used regular usb cables, nothing fancy
My computer room is upstairs and at the other end of the house and I didn't want to run a fifty foot usb cable.....but thanks
Bright Spark
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Location: Atikokan, Ontario
May 25th, 2007, 01:58 PM
Or you could, depending on the TV and the distance between it and your computer, just buy a DVI-to-HDMI cable, which gives excellent quality. I have it hooked up that way, and boy, does You Don't Know Jack get a lot more fun on a 42" LCD, a wireless keyboard and mouse when you have people over.
I'd stay away from converters, the quality is usually pretty subpar (in fact, it's often too blurry to read most stuff on the screen), especially for their price.
Quoting #juan
For $100, you can buy a top of the line Panasonic DVD player with the ability to play Divx movies you burn onto a DVD. In fact, there are many of them out there, ranging from about $50 on up. I have a Samsung Home Theatre system that not only has DIVX abilities, but also a USB hookup on it, so I can just toss a movie (or music or pictures) onto my 2gB key and toss it on, without wasting my blank DVDs; this way actually plays it better because it can read the information off the key faster than it can off the disc, resulting in fewer (if any) skips.
Twila
My computer room is upstairs and at the other end of the house and I didn't want to run a fifty foot usb cable.....but thanks
My computer room is upstairs and at the other end of the house and I didn't want to run a fifty foot usb cable.....but thanks
Or you could, depending on the TV and the distance between it and your computer, just buy a DVI-to-HDMI cable, which gives excellent quality. I have it hooked up that way, and boy, does You Don't Know Jack get a lot more fun on a 42" LCD, a wireless keyboard and mouse when you have people over.
I'd stay away from converters, the quality is usually pretty subpar (in fact, it's often too blurry to read most stuff on the screen), especially for their price.
Bright Spark
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May 25th, 2007, 02:02 PM
Oh, and from experience, Panasonic DVD/DIVX players seem to play the smoothest. I see 2 models from Future Shop available, one is $90 and one is $250 (it has DVD recorder capabilities as well).
You can just burn 6 movies onto a blank DVD as data files and it will play them. Saves space and works very well.
Oh, and from experience, Panasonic DVD/DIVX players seem to play the smoothest. I see 2 models from Future Shop available, one is $90 and one is $250 (it has DVD recorder capabilities as well).
You can just burn 6 movies onto a blank DVD as data files and it will play them. Saves space and works very well.
World Police
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May 25th, 2007, 02:07 PM
This links takes you to the DVDR section of the pirates bay, most of the movies listed are full images of the commerical release.
Quoting #juan
http://thepiratebay.org/top/202
Thanks...I will give that a try. Can you get that kind image from the usual Torrent sites?
This links takes you to the DVDR section of the pirates bay, most of the movies listed are full images of the commerical release.
World Police
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May 25th, 2007, 02:12 PM
Juan, what Snowles suggested would work as well. It's all personal preference. I dislike divx rips on my big screen due to the fact that 99% of them are encoded at a 4x3 resolution, lack of Dolby Digital 5.1 and image quality. Divx rips do have the advantge of downloading a lot faster though due to them being highly compressed.
Juan, what Snowles suggested would work as well. It's all personal preference. I dislike divx rips on my big screen due to the fact that 99% of them are encoded at a 4x3 resolution, lack of Dolby Digital 5.1 and image quality. Divx rips do have the advantge of downloading a lot faster though due to them being highly compressed.
Ponderous Intellect
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May 25th, 2007, 05:58 PM
Quote:
ah, of course not. Not good feng shui. Although I did see in a decorating magazine the latest is a hard drive for your tv. It sits descretely beside the tv. Then all you need is a flash drive....
Twila
My computer room is upstairs and at the other end of the house and I didn't want to run a fifty foot usb cable.....but thanks
My computer room is upstairs and at the other end of the house and I didn't want to run a fifty foot usb cable.....but thanks
Newbie
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June 9th, 2007, 12:50 PM
OK, I did a quick scan of the thread and I see people mention sites like TorrentSpy and ThePirateBay using clients like Azureus.
Azureus is a sh***y bloated torrent client.
Utorrent is a leaner, meaner torrent appz. (If you like, you can tweaks Utorrent for faster downloads)
here is the link
http://www.johntp.com/2006/04/19/how...s-of-utorrent/
The best site for movies is www.isohunt.com (A Canadian own & operated)
TorrentSpy is best if you're looking for XXX DvDs..
OK, I did a quick scan of the thread and I see people mention sites like TorrentSpy and ThePirateBay using clients like Azureus.
Azureus is a sh***y bloated torrent client.
Utorrent is a leaner, meaner torrent appz. (If you like, you can tweaks Utorrent for faster downloads)
here is the link
http://www.johntp.com/2006/04/19/how...s-of-utorrent/
The best site for movies is www.isohunt.com (A Canadian own & operated)
TorrentSpy is best if you're looking for XXX DvDs..
