[TheForge] Re: ABANA rental library

Tue Oct 28 18:02:00 2003

Roger, it may be that people will have to buy a new DVD player to play your
discs, this is no problem now with the price of the players. I bought a new
VCR to play your VHS tapes because my old one is PAL only and USA use the
NTSC standard.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger R Degner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: ABANA rental library

> DVD may not be the answer as I am finding out.  I am converting the UMBA
> library to DVD but am having problems finding a player that will
> consistently play them.
> There are minus R and Plus R DVDs but that does not mean  a -R player will
> play all -R disks.
> My parents machine and Bob Fredell's play fine.  I bought a Sony that is
> supposed to play both last night but have not opened the box yet.  My
burner
> is a sony 510A that was supposed to burn at 4X but with 4X disks you have
to
> install firmware that makes it burn only at 1X.  Talk about another Sony
> rip-off, I used to own a Beta player and up until the minute they dropped
> them they were the best according to there advertising.
> Almost have my tapes converted then will start the tapes donated by Will
S.
> Hope to have the UMBA library back up by 2004
> Roger Degner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jack andrews" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:52 AM
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: ABANA rental library
>
>
> >
> >
> > Dave 7 others,
> >
> > One of the problems with that the ABANA video library has faced is the
> > constant need to make new tapes after they are damaged. The master
> > tapes are not circulated. This happens as a result of heavy use and
> > being bounced around by the USPS. Normal use is about 6 to 10 times, so
> > you can see that the expense is in making new tapes.
> >
> > DVD's next?
> >
> > jack andrews
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 04:01  AM,
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > From: "lama" <[email protected]>
> > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > Subject: Re: [TheForge] ABANA Web site
> > > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:53:25 -0600
> > > Organization: LAMetalsmiths' Assoc
> > > Reply-To: [email protected]
> > >
> > > Gee Scott I don't know the answer to that one as I don't run the
> > > video library. ABANA is a big outfit with a pretty good budget.
> > > I would imagine that we have the best quality videos available
> > > but since I haven't personally rented any, I can't tell you for sure.
> > > Guess you'll have to rent some and let us know if the quality of
> > > the tape is worth the price of the rental.
> > > Dave Mudge
> >
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