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From: "Gene E. Bloch" 
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Subject: Re: Pinnacle Studio and WinDV freeze up after long idle period, can't
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:16:50 -0800
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:52:09 -0500, Voltaire wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:48:21 -0500, Patok 
> wrote:
> 
>>Voltaire wrote:
>>> Patok  wrote:
>>>> Voltaire wrote:
>>>>> gargoyle60  wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:44:08 +0000, choro  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And what do you mean, Pinnacle is "only slightly less fragile than
Nero".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...in the sense that with the Imation DVD-RWs Nero also used to fail to
>>>>>> write, even though the discs passed all the analysis tests according to
>>>>>> some of the Nero tools/utilities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apart from those failures, rarely has Nero let me down, although it
>>>>>> sometimes cannot perform a full erase on some of my CD-RW discs.
>>>>> My God, someone actually still uses those?  ([:>}
>>>>   Duh.  What do *you* use?
>>> 
>>>  I use USB thumb drives. My favorite are the ones that hold SD cards.
>>> I usually keep one in my pocket that has a 32G card slid into it. I
>>> found the CD-RW disks would slit my pants in a few weeks or so.
>>
>>   Oh. So your DVD player takes thumb drives? :) And then of course I misread
 
>>your post. I thought you were questioning Nero and Pinnacle, while in fact it
 
>>was the CD-RW disks. With *that* sentiment I can agree.
>>
>>-- 
>  I would have thought by now all DVDs would have been rendered
> completely obsolete. Movies can be downloaded for rental or purchase.
> Swapping videos can be done better using memory cards that are more
> reliable, quicker and cheaper if you consider they are reusable and
> the time it takes for a burn. My Netbook only has a slot for SD card.
> I have never missed not having a CD/DVD drive. Most of my video
> content is uploaded to YouTube in high def. I watch Blu-Ray on my
> desktop player with 3-D coming next. Now if we can convince the
> viewers of the wedding events and such to go memory card the world
> will be a much better place to view.

OTOH, you'd have to also convince a certain 95-yr old friend of mine as
well.

She still has and uses a VCR...But she has a BD player too (a gift from
her daughter).

-- 
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
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