Re: region-free is the way to be

[Don Smith <dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu>]

Hi,

Dan wrote:
> and now that i convinced my boss that we needed a USB video capture piece of
> hardware, i'm converting all of my music-related VHS to CD... my Steve Taylor
> vids will be preserved... :)

Ha!  My recommendation: use virtualdub to strip off the soundtrack into a wav
file, then use Cool Edit to run a noise reduction algorithm on the sound, then
use TMPGEnc to merge the cleaned-up sound back with the video.  Improves the
sound quality a *lot*.

My other recommendation: do it *now*, before those corporate idiots get laws
passed to prevent computers from making fair use digital copies of things.
Not to mention letting you copy your *own* digital material.

> > Does anyone know a good way to find out what's
> > available in region 2 but *not* in region 1?
> 
> try http://www.amazon.co.uk/ if the title is listed.
> i don't know if there's a better site now...

But they don't separate out Region 2 *only*, do they?  At least they didn't
last time I looked there.  There seemed to be plenty of stuff in their Region 2
list that was also available in Region 1.

Yours,
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