From: Michael Betancourt (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 00:49:34 PST
Some general thoughts:
1. You must make sure that the DVD player can actually play the format
you want. It's usually printed on the box itself, so if it doesn't say
"DVD-R" then don't buy it sicne you can't be certain it will work. My
advice is to actually bring a disk with you to the store and try it in
the demo machine (this may confuse the clerk a little) to be sure.
2. The best "buy" I've seen (and I own one of these myself) is the
E-Gear machine sold at Target for about US$60-70. It doesn't have all
the fancy features some players have, but I've found it plays disks my
other machines won't. It does play DVD-R format disks, and is about 1/2
the size of most machines.
3. There are two formats of recordable DVD, one is burned by MACs, the
DVD-R while the other is burned by Phillips equipment, DVD+R so you need
to watch compatibility issues. I haven't seen a commercial player that
will handle both on the market yet, but maybe somebody else knows one... ?
Hope this helps.
Michael Betancourt
cinema project wrote:
>So I've noticed a recent trend when talking to
>film/video artists that people are more and more using
>dvd-rs to send out samples of their works to
>programmers. It's actually really great, I'm rather
>impressed with the quality of image on the format over
>the standard NTSC VHS format.
>The problem is that I don't even own a dvd player. I
>can watch them on my computer... but that's not really
>the best of scenarios. o I think it's time to join the
>masses and buy a dvd player.
>
>I'm hoping someone out there has some recommendations
>for specific brands/models that work really well with
>the dvd-r format.
>
>
>Thanks for you help,
>
>Pablo de Ocampo
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