Posted by DVDfever Dom on 05/30/06 11:22

Damon wrote:
> Ed wrote:
> > Fecking Panasonic.
> >
> > I meant to 'finalise' but instead hit 'format' and wiped 5 episodes of
> > Dr Who that I was backing up from the hard drive. And of course I'd
> > deleted them frmo the hard drive before I formatted the disc.
> >
> > No one ever told me i cant finalise a DVD ram. I hate panasonic.
>
> So get them off a bittorent site, problem solved

They won't be in as good quality though. It's rare you get DVD-format
(mpeg2) torrents online due to the size of them.

BTW, I was hoping the originator of this thread was Russell T Davies :)

To save problems like this happening, I got a 400Gb Seagate USB hard
drive and connect that via firewire to my PC. That way, every time I
record something I want to keep I archive it to DVD and convert that to
an .mpg file on the hard drive (the latter is dead easy with a program
like Mpeg Video Wizard) and I do that before I delete it from my TiVo.

That way, you don't end up filling a disc and then finding that part of
the disc was duff and you can't get that episode off it and it was on
weeks ago so there's no chance ot getting it again at the same quality.

I never fill the hard drive as once I've got a disc's worth to make a
DVD out of (eg. a whole series if it's something 6 eps long) then that
space is freed up again.

Dom

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