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New Video Sneak Peek

Greetings all

As some of you know, I have been hard at work on DVD#2, and all that work is about to be realized, finalized, and all sorts of other -ized. The release of the final product is still a few weeks away. We have decided to add closed captioning to the video, so some of you hard of hearing turners (like me) may appreciate that.

In the meantime, I have received a short clip from the video company formatted for internet viewing. While the page needs to be prettied up by SWMBO to make it all look good with the new cover and ordering info, you can take a look at just under three minutes of actual footage from the new production. Go to

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to see it.

WARNING: This is not a small clip. It goes about 42 megabytes in size, so if you are on dialup, I don't think you want to click on the link, unless you don't have much to do for the next day or so. Being a recent dialup customer I am aware of these problems, but if you have high speed, you should be able to download it in a minute or two.

Comments and questions are always welcome, public or private. I will post again when the video is available to be shipped, probably in about three weeks.

Reply to
Bill Grumbine
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Heh - I like the "things I might do" when catching (twords the end of the preview). I've done *most* of them before.

Looks like a good selection of projects, and I'll be purchasing it when ready. Keep up the good work.

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Brent

Don Ellensburg,Wa.

Reply to
lenond

Very nice, Bill... I'll buy it for sure...

You look like you've lost a bit of turning muscle???

Mac

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Reply to
mac davis

I'm considering ordering this, but am just puzzled as to why the DVD is coded for Region 1, or for that matter any region at all. The whole region coding thing was devised by the big movie studios so as to be able control the release of their products in different regions of the world, which clearly doesn't apply in this case. Anyone can make and distribute their own region free DVD's, which will play on ANY player, quite legally. There's the NTSC vs. PAL thing too, but that's usually less of a problem than hacking your DVD player to be multi-region.

Just wondering ...

Reply to
Alun

Bill, Looks like it will be most informative. I've been thinking avbout some of those types of bowls for awhile now but wanted to hone my skills before venturing into it.

Jim

Reply to
Jimbo

Is it possible to get the video for group2, or for universal showing?

Tom

Reply to
Tom Dougall

Thanks Brent and Don. I will be sure to let you know when it is here.

Reply to
Bill Grumbine

I would like to say yes Mac. Actually I did lose some of it, but I am very good at finding it again!

Reply to
Bill Grumbine

Alun, I don't understand the coding thing, and I am pretty sure it is more of a NTSC vs PALS thing than anything else. I am just the pretty face on the camera, and have little to do with the technical end. ;-) I can tell you that there are a number of your countrymen who have purchased and viewed the first one successfully.

Reply to
Bill Grumbine

Thanks Jim. That's the whole premise behind this one, to help you out with turning them. While they are very similar to regular bowls in some ways, in others they are very different.

Reply to
Bill Grumbine

Tom, I am not sure what the exact problem is with compatibility, but it is there. Alun mentioned the Pals vs NTSC thing, and I think that is most of the issue, but I know very little about the technical issues involved. We have sold copies to people in about 15 foreign countries, with successful results. Quite a few of these have been to non-English speaking (as a first language anyway) people, but that is as far as I can tell you about its compatibility with non American formats.

Reply to
Bill Grumbine

It's got absolutely nothing to do with NTSC vs. PAL at all, since most TV's over here are either capable of displaying an NTSC signal as well as PAL, or the DVD player can do the conversion.

The region coding thing was originally designed so that the big movie studios can progressively release their wares across different regions of the world, i.e. they can release a movie to region 1 (northern america) before region 2 (europe), because in theory a DVD player bought in Europe can only play region 2 or region 0 (region free) DVD's.

This isn't probably such a big deal on your side of the pond, since everything gets released there first, but over here there are people who like to get their hands on movies as soon as they're released, so most people to whom that matters get their DVD players unlocked. Sometimes that's dead easy and can be done purely in software by entering some "secret code", on others it's more complicated and needs hardware mods. Those people will already have made their players region free, but many non technical folks, I guess won't have, so you're possibly restricting your potential audience for no good reason.

Now, as I said, there's absolutely no reason at all why the guy that does all your DVD production can't simply make the DVD region free (also known as region 0), which means that it'll play everywhere ... US, Europe, Asia, the moon, or wherever. Maybe you could just ask him.

Reply to
Alun

Alun, I sent you an email.

Reply to
Bill Grumbine

Correction Alun. I tried to send you an email. Your email address is spoofed, so I can't. If you would please write me, I would be glad to discuss this with you off the board.

Reply to
Bill Grumbine

Nah... they're a piece of cake.... (flexing beat up knuckles and torn nails)

I'm looking forward to the new one, Bill... Any idea when it will be available?

Mac

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Reply to
mac davis

Mac, it is real close now. I am just waiting for the stamping process to be finished. We are doing something new, which I don't remember if I mentioned. The new one is closed captioned. I also have some other news that I will reveal in a new posting, since I think it is worthy of its own thread.

Reply to
Bill Grumbine

Bill

DVD's aren't PAL/NTSC, but they might be Region Coded simply ensure that your's are not Region Coded

As proof, I recently took two British made DVD's (Region 2) and converted them to no Region, so they could be watched by the on any DVD player

Reply to
Ralph E Lindberg

Cool.. I hope to have the whole Grumbine collection and say that I "knew ya when"...

How many times did you move the tool rest with the lathe running on this one...

*ducking*

Mac

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mac davis

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