DVD HDD
August 10th 2008 08:20
We bought a new DVD player a few weeks back, because our old one suddenly died. The new feller is one of those with a hard drive, so you can record straight onto the machine, and then basically treat what you’ve recorded like a file on a computer: copy it, paste it, throw it away – whatever.
There’s so much it can do we haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of it yet, but we managed to record the opening series of the Olympics, which was far better than trying to watch it after midnight. Superb opening with some stunning effects, wonderfully imaginative use of fireworks, extraordinary co-ordination between thousands of performers, amazing visuals, and an incredible pre-teen girl who sang with enormous confidence, in spite of the fact that 91,000 people were watching in the stands, and billions more were watching on television. Is that too many superlatives? Not really. Each Olympic opening ceremony outdoes the previous one, partly because the technology improves exponentially every four years, and partly because each nation probably feels they’ve got to outdo the previous host.
My son came round tonight and burnt a DVD of the hard drive copy of the opening – took a few minutes of sussing out the very detailed manual, but we got there. Even managed to format a disc ourselves later on. Who says old people are beaten by technology?
We first saw one of these hard drive DVDs in Luxembourg, when we stayed with friends there last year. I think that inspired my wife – hopefully she didn’t stick a spanner in the old DVD just so she could get a new one!
In spite of all the tricks that the DVD can do, we haven’t quite round to installing the leather home theater seating yet, but give us time! (Not!!)
There’s so much it can do we haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of it yet, but we managed to record the opening series of the Olympics, which was far better than trying to watch it after midnight. Superb opening with some stunning effects, wonderfully imaginative use of fireworks, extraordinary co-ordination between thousands of performers, amazing visuals, and an incredible pre-teen girl who sang with enormous confidence, in spite of the fact that 91,000 people were watching in the stands, and billions more were watching on television. Is that too many superlatives? Not really. Each Olympic opening ceremony outdoes the previous one, partly because the technology improves exponentially every four years, and partly because each nation probably feels they’ve got to outdo the previous host.
My son came round tonight and burnt a DVD of the hard drive copy of the opening – took a few minutes of sussing out the very detailed manual, but we got there. Even managed to format a disc ourselves later on. Who says old people are beaten by technology?
We first saw one of these hard drive DVDs in Luxembourg, when we stayed with friends there last year. I think that inspired my wife – hopefully she didn’t stick a spanner in the old DVD just so she could get a new one!
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