[MacDV] Recording TV to Mac

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Never having used usenet, how do you access the alt.bonaries files or groups
or pages or whatever they are?

> From: "Dennis R. Cohen" <drcohen at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh."
> <macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 15:21:14 -0700
> To: macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Subject: Re: [MacDV] Recording TV to Mac
> 
> On 5/29/05 at 9:25 AM, Steve Robertson <stever at mindspring.com>
> transmitted the following electronic message:
> 
>> 
>> On Saturday, May 28, 2005, at 06:55  PM, Kunga wrote:
>>> Meanwhile there are a ton of 350 MB (1 commercials are already
>>> edited out hour=43 minutes) HDTV Dolby Digital 5.1 shows on the web
>>> already encoded and ready for playing.
>> 
>> Where do you find these shows?
>> 
> 
> alt.binaries.tv, alt.binaries.tvseries, alt.binaries.multimedia, and a
> bunch of other alt.binaries groups, some series-specific. The bulk are
> encoded using divx5 or xvid, but the audio in the 350MB versions is
> typically MP3. Those encoded with Dolby Digital 5:1 (AC3) are typically
> 700MB for a "1 hr" (really about 43 minute) episode, but the video
> bitrate is also higher than in the 350MB versions. The 350MB are usually
> 640x358 @ 1250-1300bps, NTSC Film, MP3 audio @ 112kbs. The AC3s are
> usually around 960x568 @ 2700kbs and AC3 5 channel @384kbs.
> 
> You can check to see where various content of this sort is posted by
> genre for the past week at www.newzbin.com (tv, movies, etc.)
> 
> -- 
> Dennis R. Cohen
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