RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Headphone/Speaker switcher

["Russell Horn" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

One catch.  I haven't found a VHS drive for my PC. :-)

I haven't got a video recorder any more - I just don't have the need. My
graphics card does, however, have an SVHS input as well as output so if I
had a VHS drive and the inclination I could use DIV-X to move all my VHS
stuff to cd-rom, with the added advantage that as long as the discs are
looked after, once it's digital there's no further degradation - oh and CD's
take up a whole lot less room than VHS :)

If you don't mind splitting stuff over disks you can even use the Video CD
format which most home DVD players will play, so you can still watch the
stuff in your living room. It's great to set the computer to record
Enterprise, then burn it to video CD. Store them in slim line cases and you
have a nice archive of the latest star trek series.

Perhaps the most amusing bit is that the Movie Industry manufactured the
Video CD format as a means to move us away from VHS back into a
non-recordable format they controlled. When they backed it it went nowhere
and today it's taking off with people at home recording stuff to a format
that's way ahead of VHS much to the disdain of the movie industry that
invented the thing :)

Russell.

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