Quote: 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…

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…

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…

Quote: 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…

I used a Formac tvr which was $300. I imported it into imovie and went from there. The result i was impressd with.

Can you view lyrics on the new Video Ipod? ...i heard the nano has this capability... also, how does it look, i have not see this and the folks at the apple store are never able to…

You can view lyrics, and it scrolls, but it's not as if the lyrics are automatically put in for you. You have to do it manually, or use some third-party program to add the lyrics t…

so that is on the Nano AND the New Video ipod? Thanks again!

Yes, the lyrics are applicable to both the nano and the iPod with video. You can usually find the lyrics to a given song by Googling, then copy and paste them in the Info window fo…

Pear lyrics on the Mac will auto load the lyrics into your mp3 file for you when you play each song. With the current version it will only write lyrics to the mp3/aac files in the…

wow that Pear Lyrics is great! Thanks for the link.

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 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…

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…

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…

Quote: 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…

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.

Quote: 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…

Quote: 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…

Quote: 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…

Quote: 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…

Quote: 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…

Quote: 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…

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…

Quote: 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…