Projecting next week – any advice?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Rennie Klymyk] “Those decks played anything you put into them and they cost $499.00 and $599.00. I think they were Hitashi but I’m not positive about the brand”

Probably the LG SuperBlu player. Waste of money really since HD-DVD is dead. Fry’s Electonics has all of their HD-DVD’s in one single rack now clearing them out for about $7 each.

As BluRay players play standard DVD’s this would be a better investment if you have not already created or own any HD-DVD’s.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Arnie Schlissel]

[walter biscardi] “Or even better, Apple TV.”

Great idea!

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[Michael Hancock]

He needs to playback 1080P. AppleTV maxes out at 720P, right?

Michael.

[Caleb Crosby]

Turns out the Ken Stone trick is for dvd playback in a mac drive not as I supposed an HD DVD player (for 7 bucks on close out!)

So my revised plan is to buy a PlayStation which plays commercially replicated blu ray dvds. Assuming it will also play “burned” blu ray one offs- can anyone here burn a blu ray from a file I mail to you?

This might work….

Caleb Crosby

[Dave Jenkins]

The Play Station is a lot harder to use the remote than a Blu-ray DVD player. We use the Sony S-300 and it works fine. The S-300 can turn off on screen control displays which is very important for projection.

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[Caleb Crosby]

Thanks Dave,

The s300 looks like a great fix… just what I was hoping to find.
can I ask if you know a place I can send a firewire drive to have the file burned to a blu ray? I need a quick turnaround.

thanks, Caleb Crosby

[Jason Porthouse]

Can’t remember where exactly, but I read an article about a guy who, baulking at the cost of an HD transfer of his indie film for projection, bought an Apple TV, and sent that to festivals instead. It worked a treat. Have a look on HD for Indies and see if there’s any info there.

HTH

Jason

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