We want to show movies outside in Haiti. Do we need to purchase an "enhanced" version and what precautions should we take concerning storage.
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The "enhanced" version is useful if you are a snob about how clear the image is. We prefer it after having the standard at first, but it just depends on your personal preference. As for as storage, I would recommend you stretch the fabric to a wooden frame then cover it with polyethylene plastic sheeting (Visqueen) or similar material. We did this for our outdoor theater and it has held up without a problem. The plastic is stabled to the back and after the movie we just flip it over the front to protect it. (We have it in the back and front so it is completely encased.) Ours stays outside on a deck year round. I do not recommend you bend, or fold the cloth for storage. The longer it is stored (or pressed by something while in storage) the more likely you are to have creases in your screen. Also you want it stretched for the best picture.
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That I really could not tell you. That is something you would have to ask their customer service guy Trevor about. You can reach him through the ariustek website or sometimes he answers questions on here. The picture is really good displaying movies and it looks great when hooked up through the computer so I think your presentations would look good too.
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To the best that I know, the camera. I havent tried the dvd option. You can call crimestoppers and ask. They are very supportive.
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Not as far as I can tell. I've dumped my entire bluray collection to 2 5TB drives using MakeMKV where I preserve all the tracks without reencoding or anything like that. I haven't had any trouble whatsoever playing anything even known Cinavia protected movies like Amazing Spider-Man I don't think you have anything to worry about. Cinavia is only a requirement for BluRay players and since this doesn't have a BluRay drive you're in good shape
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glad you got things figured out. I'm still not sure why you can't just copy from your SD card directly, but personnally, I prefer to use PhotoFunStudio, and only pull my SD card when I can't find the USB cable.As far as the wind noise, if you haven't already, go to the movie menu, and turn "Wind Cut" on.
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If you have the actual DVD, you could go through a process that will allow you to save to the HD or memory card. Also, Amazon does movie "rentals"; so you can always buy a digital copy here for a 24hour period (I think its 24hrs). I think the prices range from $1-$4 or so.
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i no longer have the device, but i remember that it was 'traditional' DVD only, not blu-ray. so unfortuntely, no HD movies from it on the road...
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You can simply put the movies on a usb thumb drive. There's two (2) full sized usb 3.0 slots on the side. Just be sure to use the smaller ones, as they barely stick out of the side, if you're worried about damage to the stick.
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Good question. I've never tried that. Most disc are encoded with some security so your computer will not allow you to download or copy them. I'm sure there's some stuff to download to get around that but I have no idea. If you did get around the security I'm sure you can have the entire film on your computer then of course you can do what you want with it.
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Well there is defiantly space on the HD for more, but it comes with no mention of when or how you would add any additional movies. So looks like the press release was not telling the truth at least for the moment!
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Thanks for your feedback, amazon notification on the discussion thread really works... :)I recently upgraded the firmware to 1.9 (2008, August 26 version), and since then I haven't (knock on wood) had any problem loading the new movies (Iron man, Transformer, Sex and City, Forgetting Sarah Marshall etc.) You may want to upgrade yours too, and hope you can enjoy the Batman begins eventually.Xin
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None. Its an interesting question though. Considering you cannot playback movies on the device directly, unless you stored audio files there isn't a need for one.
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none that i have found. just keep in mind that u won't get exactly 160GB,s of free space, because the drive had to be programmed ie formatted in order to be used. but u should have ample space for your videos.
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I just picked one up from BB today, and the included manual isn't much more helpful. According to the manual, it is going to be up to the individual production of discs as far as what you'll be able to get from components. IF the protection is enabled, without HDMI you will only be able to view 480i or 480p. 720p or 1080i, either through HD DVD or upconverted SD DVD would/could be blocked. Hope this helps. Like I said, I have the unit and I'm watching it now with SD DVDs until tomorrow, and the upconversion is MUCH better than my previous Toshiba DVD upconversion player. Star Wars III was absolutely fantastic (picture wise. Unfortunately this unit cannot yet "upconvert" poor scripts, but I digress). If anyone wants to ask anymore questions, I'll be picking up a couple HD DVDs tomorrow (Tuesday 4/18) as well as getting some from Netflix, so I'll have plenty of review material.
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Hi Scott, I bought this unit about a year after it first came out (2007). Mine came with the standard 30Gb hard drive with the zif interface. The unit came standard with a USB cable, video out cables (no HDMI cable), a remote control that you could use to control recording, zoom in/zoom out and playback control if you connect it to a TV/monitor. I personally swapped the original 30Gb drive with a 80Gb drive (had to since the 30Gb drive completely failed). Any additional filters, were not part of the standard package. Any modern Windows or Mac computer can deal with the AVCHD movie files that this camera produces. It has been a stalwart for the six years I have owned it, and its optic zoom lens is really more than decent. Of course, nowadays, 1080p can be achieved easily with an iPhone, but trust me, the crappy lenses that all smartphones come with along with their crappy digital zoom, will never be able to match the performance of a good optical lens -- that is just reality. That being said, new cameras which support 4k recording are not that expensive these days -- the problem that you will have is that smooth 4k digital editing requires fairly powerful hardware. I can honestly say, that today's consumer/prosumer level computer hardware/software can finally be used to edit 1080p AVCHD files smoothly -- so let me see, six to seven years before the hardware/software became up to snuff to edit the video from this camera? How many more years before 4k can be smoothly edited? I still use this camera to this day -- colors are kind of toned down, but other than that, excellent video/sound output. And of course, the night mode is impressive -- you can take monochrome videos in absolute darkness.
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I am not an expert, but if you do video you will need a lot of storage. You might need 1T at least.
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Im sure there are other apps out there but I play my files from my NAS using XBMC. The only ones I have problem with are 1080p 3D movies and I think thats more of the A100 itself and not so much XBMC.