The way to get the highest quality out of a VHS-to-digital transfer is to get a capture card or firewire bridge that either supports uncompressed, progressive or 60i (60 fields a s…
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Personaly i have the 300, it actually enhances the analog input before is encodes it digitaly. The work it has done for me i…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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No links yet Rickey. I work for a reseller and we've had issues with multiple Seagate 500GB drives installing in our config warehouse…
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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…
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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…
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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…