[David Kearnes]

Michael,
I think “Hollywood Quality” is rather a subjective thing. If you are making a DVD that doesn’t require authoring and can be made from a D1 video signal, the quality of the Pioneer is good. The longer the program the more you have to crank on the compression (as is the case with any method).

If you would like to see a sample of your work, contact me and I’ll run something for you so you can see the quality for yourself. It may or may not be for you. It sounded like you were looking to save a little time on some DVDs and you can with this unit.

We also duplicate the disks we make with the Pioneer with two of our DVD duplicators. No problems there.

If sending me something to put on DVD doesn’t sound good to you, we demoed a unit from Pioneer before we bought our first one. Perhaps you could set up a demo in your facility.

Let me know!

David Kearnes

dkearnes@winnercomm.com
dkearnes@mac.com

[David Kearnes]

We use 2 of the Pioneer units and they are great! You can record to one or both dvd drives and/or the hard drive at the same time. 99% of the time we are making a one off for approval or a t/c burn for screening. You can do authoring, chapters etc by connecting a keyboard and mouse. With the bit rate set right, the DVDs look very good. Great units and very well made. We have both of ours on our router, One gets SDI and AES audio, and the other gets composite video/stereo audio. We mostly use the composite unit to catch air checks of our shows for clients off of Direct TV or Dish Network. The SDI unit gets Digibeta masters or playouts directly from an edit suite. The disks play well in most computers and DVD players. We had a few clients with a older DVD player that had some playback issues and we just upgraded those units and things work great now.

Living On Tulsa Time!