Philips DVDR 75/17 (US) - test results

[donpedro]

I wonder which color component signal carries the CGMS? All or just one? Wonder how to kill the CGMS component?

I have no idea.

[donpedro]

GOOD NEWS

I tested capture from PC and IT WORKS !!!

Here is what I did:

• Captured on laptop 30s video from MiniDV camcorder with Pinnacle Studio version 8
• Placed it on time line twice and inserted transition between them
• Rendered project
• Send output through FireWire to FireWire connector on the front of Philips
• Recorder recorded my video from PC
• It even captured original tape date/time as subtitle whenever video was not changed.

[jonbale]

When recording from DV camcorder (FireWire), date and time is encoded as subtitle. Can be turned ON and OFF (added to first post)

HOW do you turn this feature ON and OFF? I want to make some DVDs over firewire WITHOUT that subtitle.

Thank you!

[donpedro]

well first sugestion will be to read manual if it is there.... I don't have this machine anymore

edit: why does it bother you ? you can turn it off during playback. As an workourround you can record from analog input instead of firewire.

[jonbale]

well first sugestion will be to read manual if it is there.... I don't have this machine anymore

edit: why does it bother you ? you can turn it off during playback. As an workourround you can record from analog input instead of firewire.

Thanks for your reply! Believe me, I have read the manual thoroughly, talked with Philips support, and searched the web. Since you said in your original post that the Subtitle creation could be turned on and off, I thought that you might remember how. The analog workaround may suffice, although I hate to leave the digital domain after staying in it for my editing.

You ask: Why do the subtitles bother me? Some of the DVD players belonging to people to whom I give my videos sense the presence of subtitles, and display them by default. The average DVD owner does not know how to turn subtitle display off on a noncommercial DVD. So they just let it display. Since the video is a mix of edited and nonedited footage, the blue box subtitle appears and disappears throughout the program -- very annoying! Furthermore, since the video is edited, the displayed dates and times often jump around in time (backward and forward), not something I want advertised and distracting to the story or message of the video. Those are the reasons that I don't want timestamp subtitles.

There must be a way of turning this feature off. Any idea who would know?

Thanks.

[donpedro]

Hmm... OK... Now that I am thinking about it... I believe that my sentence "Can be turned ON and OFF" probably mant to inform that while playing you don't have to have it ON all the time... I can try to check manual in pdf format if I can find it somewhere...