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Gotta say, I love this site. It's not often that I find people who are bigger geeks than I am.
Although I make my living writing internet software: shopping carts/database driven web sites, etc, movies are in my soul. My Dad was one of the first to see the potential for movies in the mid 70's, and created the chain "Movieland", which went national in a very short period of time.
Although retired, my Dad is still heavily into movies. His thing is making temporary videos he shares with friends and family.
My thing was always electronics. Movieland started in my Dad's tv repair shop when I was 17, and by 12(having grown up in a tv repair shop) I was as good or better a tech than guys (who my Dad paid BIG $....he'd always said 'most of your pay is in experience. I'd always say: 'They don't take experience at the stores I go to' ) 3 times my age. It paid off: in my early 30's I found myself running my state's electronic repair division for the largest servicer in the world.
By the 90's Dad moved on to programming. Computers had been one of his hobbies. He was one of the original members of the famous "Dearborn Computer Club" in the 70's & 80's, and after selling off Movieland he began writing & selling shopping carts for e-commerece websites.
I'd take my 2 week vacations and fly to Florida and stay with him. In 95, he began telling me 'you need to learn computers'. I'd say 'Dad, all I need is a word processor.'
In 97 on that year's visit, he asked me: "what band do you like?" I responded: "I just saw the Who...why do you ask?"
So he types in 'The Who" into a search engine, and hundreds of websites appear in the engine. I spent the next several hours reading....totally fixated and enthralled.
I came home after the 2 weeks and went out & bought my 1st computer: a 200MHZ Pentium 2 with a 4.7 gig HD and a whopping 16 MB of memory.
By 2000, I began my own software company.
In 2001 he started telling me about his new dvd recorder: a phillips DVDR985. 'It's just like a VCR.' he said 'It sits on top of the tv. You ought to get one.'
So I bought the same model.
And this began my intro to DVD recorders.
I still have the 985(never had a problem with mine), and over the years I have added 2 Ilo's (they're made by Cyberhome. I have 5 burners in 5 different computers here(I work outta my home).
Lately, I've been delving into making shot videos with custom menus and features.
Reading this site closely, and taking the advice of the expertise of Blu, Chewy, Columbo, etc, I just made 3 I'm rather proud of.
This was the introduction/backfround post. In the next post, I'll provide info on what software I used, the evolution of the 3, music sources, and a killer free (I know the site LUV's free stuff) site you can host em on, as well as showing you the movies as well.
Gotta say, I love this site. It's not often that I find people who are bigger geeks than I am.
Although I make my living writing internet software: shopping carts/database driven web sites, etc, movies are in my soul. My Dad was one of the first to see the potential for movies in the mid 70's, and created the chain "Movieland", which went national in a very short period of time.
Although retired, my Dad is still heavily into movies. His thing is making temporary videos he shares with friends and family.
My thing was always electronics. Movieland started in my Dad's tv repair shop when I was 17, and by 12(having grown up in a tv repair shop) I was as good or better a tech than guys (who my Dad paid BIG $....he'd always said 'most of your pay is in experience. I'd always say: 'They don't take experience at the stores I go to'
) 3 times my age. It paid off: in my early 30's I found myself running my state's electronic repair division for the largest servicer in the world. By the 90's Dad moved on to programming. Computers had been one of his hobbies. He was one of the original members of the famous "Dearborn Computer Club" in the 70's & 80's, and after selling off Movieland he began writing & selling shopping carts for e-commerece websites.
I'd take my 2 week vacations and fly to Florida and stay with him. In 95, he began telling me 'you need to learn computers'. I'd say 'Dad, all I need is a word processor.'
In 97 on that year's visit, he asked me: "what band do you like?" I responded: "I just saw the Who...why do you ask?"
So he types in 'The Who" into a search engine, and hundreds of websites appear in the engine. I spent the next several hours reading....totally fixated and enthralled.
I came home after the 2 weeks and went out & bought my 1st computer: a 200MHZ Pentium 2 with a 4.7 gig HD and a whopping 16 MB of memory.
By 2000, I began my own software company.
In 2001 he started telling me about his new dvd recorder: a phillips DVDR985. 'It's just like a VCR.' he said 'It sits on top of the tv. You ought to get one.'
So I bought the same model.
And this began my intro to DVD recorders.
I still have the 985(never had a problem with mine), and over the years I have added 2 Ilo's (they're made by Cyberhome. I have 5 burners in 5 different computers here(I work outta my home).
Lately, I've been delving into making shot videos with custom menus and features.
Reading this site closely, and taking the advice of the expertise of Blu, Chewy, Columbo, etc, I just made 3 I'm rather proud of.
This was the introduction/backfround post. In the next post, I'll provide info on what software I used, the evolution of the 3, music sources, and a killer free (I know the site LUV's free stuff) site you can host em on, as well as showing you the movies as well.
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