Originally posted by: Jonno
Hi folks, sorry to have been slow with the replies - net access is a bit intermittent at present...
Alien Evolution:
This is my own transfer from a digital UK broadcast (I'm in the UK, in case that wasn't clear!) It was initially taped onto PAL DV as a 4:3 recording of the receiver's 16:9 output - squeezed, in other words. I subsequently encoded this and authored a simple DVD-R with some other odds and ends (it was early 2003 IIRC, and I wanted to backup some of the laserdisc stuff which of course ended up in the Quad set anyway).
Hi folks, sorry to have been slow with the replies - net access is a bit intermittent at present...
Alien Evolution:
This is my own transfer from a digital UK broadcast (I'm in the UK, in case that wasn't clear!) It was initially taped onto PAL DV as a 4:3 recording of the receiver's 16:9 output - squeezed, in other words. I subsequently encoded this and authored a simple DVD-R with some other odds and ends (it was early 2003 IIRC, and I wanted to backup some of the laserdisc stuff which of course ended up in the Quad set anyway).
It is a pity that there is the "other stuff" on the disc. A 1 and 1/4 hour documentary deserves to be the only feature on a single layer DVD-R. Everything else lowers the picture quality of the whole final product. I must agree with DigitalfreakNYC's point of view on this issue. Three maximum quality DVD-Rs are better than one DVD-R with the same stuff compressed to fit on it. But since you resized and burned it already, there is no way to get the maximum possible quality again, right? I mean, the master tv recording probably does not exist anymore. But even if so, it is still the "closest-to-source" Evolution DVD-R I heard of.