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Episode 178:
HDMI Switchers, Green Computing, Video Editing Recommendations and more!!!
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Robert takes a second stab at Justin's question about why Blu-Ray movies don't look any better on his CRT WEGA HDTV than regular DVD movies. Turns out that 1080p isn't supported over a non-HDCP connection like component. The same kind that Justin is using to connect his PS3 to his TV.
We help out Gerald multiply the number of HDMI inputs he has in his HDTV with the use of a HDMI switcher. Robert suggests skipping past the expensive IOGEAR and other retail options and check out Amazon and monoprice.com for HDMI switchers.
Cubapete 15 wants to know if resizing his partition to accommodate another OS damage or delete his data? The short answer is no provided you use a re-partitioner that allows for non-destructive changes. Two popular freeware choices are Gparted and Ranish Partition Manager.
David wanted to know what the best video editor for creating/producing b-movies with was. If you want the true essence of b-movie production you'll probably stick with the included video editor in Windows, Windows Movie Maker or iMovie if you've a Mac. Honestly though if you're serious about film or video editing you'll want to check out Adobe's Premiere Pro or Apple's Final Cut Studio 2. You can get by with the lite versions of both, Premiere Elements and Final Cut Express, if you just want to learn to edit and don't want to spend a lot of $$, but if you plan on making a career in editing I recommend trying to obtain either Pro or Studio. Both are used widely in post production industry and working knowledge is a plus.
Chris wants to know how to go about putting together a "green" PC. According the resident PC whiz, Loyd Case, check for the RoHS label. It stipulates a reduction in toxicity and hazardous materials in the production of and construction of electronics. You might also consider getting a power supply with a 80 PLUS rating, which indicates a power supply with at least an 80% efficiency rating or higher. Many popular makers feature 80 PLUS models in their line up.
Viewer, Drew, drew (no pun intended) our attention to Hamachi VPN solutions as good remote access solution for people trying to access their machines remotely through a router/firewall.
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Posted by:
Juan FIloso
June 28, 2007 7:14 PM
Hello fellow Techtv people. I was wondering if you or anyone can tell me why I get no sound from any of my browers. Like Pat I use Mozilla, Opera and sometimes IE but I get no sound from any of them. I have read and read on the net to install players, java, reinstall browsers. I have tried everything bu t nothing. Between Pat and Roger "THE MAN" Chang, there has to be an answer. Help a fellow geek out.
Posted by:
pairman
June 28, 2007 8:01 PM
Go to http://www.codecs.com and download the klite mega codec pack.
This one fixed my codec probs on more then one occasion.
Posted by:
reddragon72
June 29, 2007 4:26 PM
Or if you don't mind waiting for the download just snag up the VLC player and be done with it. I download the DIVX personally and then burn them to a DVD and play them on my set top box on the big screen.... I'm still looking for a place to download all the DIVX shows that does not require me to click myself to death on this site.....
Posted by:
sdf
June 29, 2007 5:36 PM
Someone please check in on Mr. Norton. It's a cry for help!
Posted by:
Jason
June 30, 2007 5:48 PM
I always download either the divx, or the H.264, as i can download them normally in less than or right at 2 minutes.
Posted by:
philnolan3d
July 1, 2007 2:15 PM
As far as video editors, there's one more. NewTek's SpeedEdit "The world's fastest video editor". It's fairly easy to use, supports HD video and just about any other format you can throw at it.
http://www.newtek.com/speededit/
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Shawn
July 1, 2007 9:34 PM
Hi,
I love your show. Back in Episode 173, Patrick said he's gonna leave links in the shownotes in regards to ways to recover data after using Derek's boot and nuke. I looked, and I don't find it...am I missing something?
Posted by:
LOLz
July 2, 2007 9:32 AM
Yea, you are missing something. Your data!
While the internet is full of mystical legends of National Security Administration(NSA) agents using electron microscopes to image magnetic "shadows" on a wiped disk and resurrect the data on the drive bit by bit, the likelihood is very VERY low. What's more is that the expense of such an operation would be astronomical in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. You're not going to recover such a drive and I'm not even convinced that the NSA could/would.
Disks wiped with Darik's Boot And Nuke(DBAN) are almost certainly NOT recoverable. That is the whole point of DBAN! However disks that have been wiped by erasing the partition table(FDISK) or by a reformat may be recoverable. This is what Patrick was referring to.
The requirements to recover deleted disk data varies depending on many factors including file system(FAT, NTFS, EXT3) and how the information was deleted(delete, reformat, repartition). This means that no single tool is probably going to work in all scenarios and I will therefore avoid recommending any particular one. However, a Google search for undelete, unformat or unpartition will yield the necessary answers.
When the data really matters and you are willing to spend a fair bit of money to get it back, it's better to let professionals like Ontrack do the job. But, after a secure wipe with DBAN, I wouldn't expect them to get anything off the disk. Remember that the entire point of DBAN is to make the data on the disk completely unrecoverable.
Posted by:
Critter
July 2, 2007 4:25 PM
I hear a lot about Ubuntu Linux lately so i tried it out. I just wanted to point out a couple more 'user friendly' distros of Linux that come pre-compiled. PC Linux is a good one for new Linux users, nothing to configure as far as media, networking, etc. SAM Linux is a PC linux based OS that optimizes lower end pc's. My experience with these two distros was a lot better than Ubuntu Linux.
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Mike
July 2, 2007 11:58 PM
I think Ubuntu and Fedora Linux are both good choices.
Posted by:
jasorn
July 3, 2007 6:29 AM
How about the floss video editors?
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