DVR-118L Hub Lock Broke or Disk had Defect in Plastic?

Update: No warranty issue because drive, at this time, is reading fine; burning some data disks overnight. Working with Verbatim who contacted me on twitter and so far it is positive, results TBA.

This appeared in the MacTheRipper forum subcategory: Hardware

Felt the Journal has been ignored for flashier projects and it is publicly readable without the signup hassle or (wrongly) feel DVD rippers are illegal. More than ever a backup of your expensive movie disk should be done.

Machines break, disks become less than 100% unbreakable in normal use. How many $15, $20 or $30 charges to your wallet does the movie industry deserve? One buy with free replacement (100% free no S/H charge) if it breaks or scratch unreadable. Fat chance of that happening. You have to buy a new movie at current price, if it has not gone out-of-print. So, backup the disk.

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Hi,

I had A Murphy's Law night. Record Realplayer window that displayed STS-131 Spacewalk. Final amount of video is just under 50GB, still have to process it into .MOV then edit. Of course a DVD writer is handy to backup source files. Unless a disk commits suicide.

Truthfully I can't be sure who is at fault; hub lock break, disk defect in the hub area plastic. Never happened before - ever.

Photos via twitpic:

[url=http://twitpic.com/1eaqdf]Write Side[/url] level of nasty --> hardware p0rn

[url=http://twitpic.com/1eaqxo]Label Side[/url] level of nasty --> clean

[url=http://twitpic.com/1ear9q]CloseUp[/url] level of nasty --> hardware p0rn

Working with macsales on twitter. Nice customer support from them. Better than trading e-mail and fast. Naturally once all the ground work is done out comes the phone or e-mail or web page to request RA number. It is nice to just send tweet " it is broke..." and get a real person back to you. Comcast, Zappo's, and others do it and Comcast is getting Support love from CS in twitter (all the other types of CS benefit be it phone or other)

DVR-118L in Mercury Pro enclosure (Oxford chip), 2 Firewire and 1 USB.

So, which is it - drive or disk? Yes, a pop quiz, think about it.

Will post results of warranty decision.

-f :cry:

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Reference Links:

Other World Computing: http://twitter.com/macsales

Verbatim: http://twitter.com/usverbatim

Comcast: http://twitter.com/comcastcares

And Me http://twitter.com/fairuse

Edit: correction; make photo links clickable. Add: update at top and reference links

USA Women's Curling Team Unity Song

This song is should be sung to the tune "59th Bridge Street Song (Feelin' Groovy) by Simon and Garfunkel. Happy thoughts.

Slow down its going too fast, you gotta make the curling last

Brushing down the icy path

Playing to win and feelin' groovy

Ba da, Ba da, Ba da, Ba da... Feelin' Groovy.

Hello brushers,

What cha doing?

I've come to watch your brooms sweepin'.

Ain't cha got no hammer for me?

Doot-in' doo-doo,

Feeling groovy.

I've got no concedes to do,

Only wins to keep.

Let the fans drop their cheers on me.

Curling, I love you,

All is groovy

Good luck USA Curling Team.

(Thanks to Mrs. fairuse for the help.)

Gray Sky and Beeping Vehicles

HPIM1153-trim
Originally uploaded by duddits-fairuse

No sleeping in today. They are under my window!

Sharp HDTV with Blu-ray Drive Homemade DVD Test

With some reserve I made a DVD to test the Blu-ray playback. The manual has a convoluted list of yes, no, maybe, DRM fickle don't even try that disk with stupid footnote references to other pages of user manual. Shoot me now! I may take the TV apart to see the little demon they put in the TV. No regular person will understand that stupid book, i.e., my wife and every grandmother I know.

(Maxwell, my black cat will eat the plastic demon if I get it out).

A photo of test disk.

What! The dam thing works! More info and credits click photo.

Sigh, 10 hours of computer time to make a disk that is butt ugly because I did not have source video [uncompressed]. Wait, this is a playback test not a video quality test. Microwave time in 2 days for this critter. Done.

[begin oops edit]

Dvorak's CAGE MATCH

-- For more on RedLetterMedia's video that is on the test disk and my reason for skipping the movie Avatar. Star Wars & Avatar -- a trap for writer and director via computer shortcuts

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What Would Einstein Say?

It never ends....

The wonderful world of photoshop and other art tools. Create anything, any time you want. Handy for print media. Moving along.

Need an eye catcher for your print ad in People's Sexiest Man Alive issue? Got one. Go home all of you, that includes you 110 of the Hottest Guys on the Planet. GM did not pick you.

Behind the cover (page 0) on page 0+1 is a buff Albert Einstein ready to kick ass. With that look and his brain you are tools, Mr Hottest Guys. The Bad; wife took Albert and the Victoria's Secret Holiday book with her. The Good; said I would pull document shredder duty and fetched magazine for a couple of photos. And! The Ugly; A great man's likeness has been parodied to sell GMC Station Wagon to my Ford Taurus X Station Wagon driving wife. Better luck next time GM - you are a day late and a dollar short. Make that many dollars short.

I will conclude with a thought experiment. What would Albert Einstein say about this. I think he would be laughing. Still, I cannot refrain from saying it is a little tacky. Credit wife for bringing Albert looking like a abs-climber-bowflex ad model on TeeVee (morning TV before 7:00 AM).

Photos: I took a picture of the magazine layout to illustrate my critique.

I do try not to giggle. (photo: HP ps 733 )

(Compare photo at right, a cropped G1 phone photo with above. Nothing like real camera controls. Even lame control is better than none. Or worse, software sims that muck up shot. Tried that here and software trashed 3 shots. I am still winning by 6 [1 out-of-focus, 1 wrong filter and 2 pilot error. Rest are bad comp.)

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To repeat; It never ends.

Holy F* S*, Holy F* S*, OMG. The Shadow! They are back?

Not sure the reference to an excellent 1990's science fiction TV series (Babylon 5) works but that is what I thought. Shadow are hard to see. Maybe a more modern 'thing' like the Replicators from Stargate-SG1 would be better. Everybody dies, I mean buys!

Thanks for the find, http://curry.com/?p=1951

Film - LUX Prize 2009 (via European Communities, 2009 [EbS])

I found this a refreshing moment after the Hollywood (MPAA) and NewsCorp's control all media content. In the can - USofA film makers that means the rubbish bin. Hundreds of TV channels and 2 web portals and it is all junk save a few well written shows or films. Where are the 'media moguls' of the past who wanted to preserve an identity; dead of course. The current batch of producers/distribution brass here in the NaU (North american Union) have not bothered with anything except the profit margin (in a per minute price if they could).

Harsh? Yes, but I do get to spend 80 to 90 percent of my time with 4 cableTV sets and 2 Satellite Radios on 24 hours a day. I may be a bit saturated on Hollywood's Rx for the masses.

What do you think of this video? Make a comment. [Note: Not on my words, they kill english comp teachers & I will rot in hell for ranting. IamNotaWrtr]

LIVE LUX Prize 2009
EP roundtable with:
First Part
- Fatih AKIN, Director of "Auf der anderen Seite"("On the edge of heaven")
- Hanna SCHYGULLA, the film's leading actress
- Leonard ORBAN, EU Commissioner for Multilingualism
- Christian LÜFFE (Goethe Institut)
Second Part
- Kamen KALEV, Director of "Eastern Plays" (contending for Lux Prize 2009)
- Philip Boëffard, Producer of "Welcome" (contending for Lux Prize 2009)
- Doris Pack, Chairwoman of the EP Committee on Culture and Education

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Credit © European Communities, 2009

Talk, Talk, Talk -- Right!

Added Chatdango so the page will load slower. Ordered by a semi-famous tv ad turtle. Hint: the turtle is on dsl ....

Broadcast via G1: Can I Tolerate My Video Looking Bad?

When mobile video recorders bite back: Where is film when you need it?

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Fifth-Gen iPod Nano..taken to The Outer Limits!!! from Andy Ihnatko on Vimeo.

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The player on newspaper page was not friendly to my browser. Let google eat it, google eats anything.

For mobile video compare there should be some control video. I think a low price outdated camera that does AVI video will work. The sturdy hp photosmart 733 with 3.2 MP 3x optical zoom fits.

----- Flickr video. Produced by G1 native app Camcorder. It is actual size. There is a glitch at 1 minute 09 seconds frame 16 to 1:13 frame 05 (flickr smoothed it some during transcode).

Need edit more .....