Converting VHS to Digital...need advice — #4
What sort of video and how much quality do you need?
I did a whole bunch of pre-digital home movies via a simple DV bridge. The unit was $300, but that was years ago. Given th…
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Converting VHS to Digital...need advice — #5
It's old home movies. Old birthday parties, etc. Somple VCR-like quality is all I need. DV bridge is referring to taking a VCR, hooking it up to someone's DV camera, and importi…
Converting VHS to Digital...need advice — #6
It's old home movies. Old birthday parties, etc. Somple VCR-like quality is all I need. DV bridge is referring to taking a VCR, hooking it up to someone's DV camera, and importi…
Converting VHS to Digital...need advice — #7
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Originally Posted by WinsOBoogi
It's old home movies. Old birthday parties, etc. Somple VCR-like quality is all I need. DV bridge is referring to taking a VCR, hooking…
Converting VHS to Digital...need advice — #8
if you borrow someone's Mini DV camera w/ a digital pass through capabilities you can get very good results. i used this method for a couple of vhs tapes and it worked fine. a lot…
Converting VHS to Digital...need advice — #9
I use http://www.miglia.com 's Director's Cut Take 2 product. It's a dv bridge and works very well. You can go the camcorder route with someone's miniDV camera. I've not noticed an…
Converting VHS to Digital...need advice — #10
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Originally Posted by robby818
if you borrow someone's Mini DV camera w/ a digital pass through capabilities you can get very good results. i used this method for a coupl…
Converting VHS to Digital...need advice — #11
I used a Formac tvr which was $300. I imported it into imovie and went from there. The result i was impressd with.
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #1
Are the largest SATA internal HD's for a Power Mac G5 500GB? Due to the chassis, I know that you can only have a max of (2) internal HD's. Is their a limit to the size of the HD's …
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #2
Largest drive I know of today is 500 GB SATA. I'm sure a year from now there will be bigger ones. Biggest drive 8 months ago was 400 GB... biggest 12 months ago was 250 GB.
When…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #3
Serial ATA uses LBA48, which theoretically limits drives to 144PB, but the implementation in the G5 may have a lower limit (still well above any drive available today).
A 500GB SAT…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #4
Thank you CatOne, and just so I am clear, the full 500GB drives will work in a 2nd Generation Power Mac G5, correct? Will the full capacity (minus the formatting chunk of course) b…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #5
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Originally Posted by rickey939
Thank you CatOne, and just so I am clear, the full 500GB drives will work in a 2nd Generation Power Mac G5, correct? Will the full capacity…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #6
I'd recommend you do little research. I've seen some issues with the 500gb Seagate SATA drive. Maxtor's 500GB should be shipping now.
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #7
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Originally Posted by hmurchison2001
I'd recommend you do little research. I've seen some issues with the 500gb Seagate SATA drive. Maxtor's 500GB should be shipping no…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #8
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Originally Posted by hmurchison2001
I'd recommend you do little research. I've seen some issues with the 500gb Seagate SATA drive. Maxtor's 500GB should be shipping no…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #9
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Originally Posted by mduell
Yes, you'll be able to use ~465GB of the drive in any G5 PowerMac. Most of the "loss" is due to the difference between 1 billion bytes and 1 g…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #10
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Originally Posted by rickey939
Have a link to the Seagate issues? That is one of the drives I am looking (Seagate Barracuda 7200.9) at, the other is the Hitachi Deskstar…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #11
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Originally Posted by hmurchison2001
No links yet Rickey. I work for a reseller and we've had issues with multiple Seagate 500GB drives installing in our config warehouse…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #12
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Originally Posted by hmurchison2001
No links yet Rickey. I work for a reseller and we've had issues with multiple Seagate 500GB drives installing in our config warehouse…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #13
All SATA drives will work in a PowerMac G5. 500 GB drives are way too expensive, though, I'd get 400 GB drives if you really need the space. 500 GB drives are veeeery expensive per…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #14
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
All SATA drives will work in a PowerMac G5. 500 GB drives are way too expensive, though, I'd get 400 GB drives if you really need the spac…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #15
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
All SATA drives will work in a PowerMac G5. 500 GB drives are way too expensive, though, I'd get 400 GB drives if you really need the spac…
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #16
Wonder how long 500GB takes to format, 4 - 5 hours?
Largest Internal (SATA) Power Mac G5 HD's? — #17
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Originally Posted by voo
Wonder how long 500GB takes to format, 4 - 5 hours?
Quick format should take about a minute... why bother with a full format?