[Hallicrafters] Movie Clips on CD (was Boys Toys)

[Craig K6QI]

Hello Again,

I've gotten some good questions tonight, and I want to answer them for the 
good of the lists...

First, as soon as you tell me your sending me an order for the CD's, I'm 
going to make them and put them in a Priority Mail box. The same day I get 
your Money Order (or maybe the day after) I'll ship the CD's to you. I 
don't want a bunch of stuff hanging around the office/shack so if all goes 
as it should, you should have the CD's back in your hands about a week 
after you mail the order to me. Jewels are not included.

Second, a couple of very wise fellows asked if they would run on his 
Pentium 100 with 64 megs of ram, another fellow asked about a 486DX4-100 
with 32 megs of ram. The answer is NO!  Thanks to both you folks for 
asking, the disks will not run, you'll waste your money.
If I find that my new video card indeed will record to a VCR, then I'll do 
my best to make a few for you folks that have older machines. But, it will 
be very time consuming. I'll try this over the weekend and let you folks 
know. My own personal tests show that the CD movies run great on my P4 1.6g 
with 512 meg of ram and a 64 meg NVIDIA AGP graphics card. It also runs 
fine on my P2 400 with 468 meg of ram and a 32 meg Diamond Stealth AGP 
video card. It DID NOT run very well on my step daughters Pentium 333 
laptop with 64 megs of ram and an 8 meg video card. They run fine directly 
off the CD's, or you can dump the files onto your hard drive.

Third, a fellow wanted to know if I would guarantee the disks to work. 
Nope, I can't. I will guarantee that they will work on my P2 400 machine 
(listed above) but I have no idea about your machine and it's hardware. On 
each disk is the software (shareware) that allows these files to be played 
on my machines. I don't guarantee that either for the same reasons.

Fourth, one fellow thought I was gouging on the price of $1.00 for each 
disk. Frankly, I have no idea what these things sell for. My wife got them 
for me when my two daughters and her daughter went together and bought me 
the burner last year. If you think a buck each is too high and still want 
the movies, send six blank (new) major brand 650 meg CDR's along with your 
address label and return postage. This goes for anybody by the way. If you 
have $3.50 in postage you want to send you won't hurt my feelings a bit! 
Heck, send the CD's and postage (don't forget the address label) and I'll 
be a happy camper!

Fifth, This MPEG-2 format is also known as some sort of DVD format. I tried 
it in our DVD player and they don't work.

Sixth, Yes Fred, I must be nuts for doing this. :-)

Seventh, Sound it out, muaa, ha ha ha! (mu aaaaa ha ha ha) you know the 
evil 'B' movie laugh...

Any other questions gladly answered!

73

Craig K6QI








At 09:38 PM 1/30/02, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>At 07:39 PM 1/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>>MUAA, HA HA HA!
>>
>>SEND ME MONEY! THOUSANDS, NO, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! :-)
>>
>>OK, I've taken off the black cape and the handlebar mustache... Total, 
>>there are six CD's. I forgot to mention one, I'll be posting it to the 
>>lists shortly. It's On the Air, and I don't remember what it's about. 
>>I've seen to many of these lately! I think it's about a broadcast 
>>station, or something... Anyway, the six CD's and shipping would be 
>>$9.50. A buck each for the CD's (does that sound fair to you guys?) and 
>>postage. Money Orders please. Also, please insert an address label for 
>>yourself. Something I can put on the box so I don't have to try and copy 
>>all the addresses and end up sending them to Nova Scotia...
>>
>>I'll be contacting you couple of guys that offered to help if I get 
>>buried in orders.
>>
>>73
>>
>>Craig Carter K6QI
>>856 Pistachio Ave.
>>Clovis, CA 93611-6263
>
>If I send the money order is it possible to get the CDR's within 3 to 4 
>weeks? I don't know how fast your burner is. Mine's 4x...