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Posted by rm on 03/01/07 01:10
Excellent suggestion and I'm hoping you are correct since I've copied 30+
movies already... Both players we use are pretty old. I'll play them back
on the PC from that folder and give it a test.
Can you recommend a good DVD player (since ours are like $40 models :)?
"Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
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> rm,
>
> Gene has an extremely likely explanation. If you are not burning dual
> layer disks, however, then use the VIDEO_TS folder on your hard disk from
> one of these "rain fade" examples, and try playing it directly with your
> PC, thus avoiding the step of burning a disk. If the resulting movie looks
> fine in the 2nd half, then the burner / blank disks / or your set-top
> player are suspect. Given that you have tried different brands of
> top-notch media from Verbatim, Sony, and Taiyo Uden, the fault is then
> most likely in either your burner or your player, and you can next trying
> playing the "faulty" disks on other set-top players as well as on your PC
> to see if they also look like "rain fade". By using this logical process
> of elimination, you should be able to isolate the problem to one of these
> causes.
>
> Smarty
>
>
> "Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote in message
> news:mn.e3817d7234acda9d.1980@nobody.invalid...
>> On 2/27/2007, rm posted this:
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> I've tried 2 different PCs and 3 different programs: DVDFab, DVDXCopy,
>>> and DVDShrink. On both PCs and all 3 programs I get the same result.
>>> The first half of the movie looks great. But then somewhere after 1/2
>>> way through, it blurs like it has rain fade on a satellite dish - best
>>> way I can describe it. I've used Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden, Sony, and one
>>> other (can't remember right now).
>>>
>>> Any thoughts or suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> I have no idea what rain fade is or looks like, but I wonder if you are
>> burning to single layer or dual layer disks.
>>
>> If so, perhaps there is a problem in the way the burners or the disks
>> deal with the second layer.
>>
>> The above is a WAG (I bet that's obvious :-) ).
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
>> letters617blochg3251
>> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
>>
>>
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