The Pio 531,640 , Panny E-55 recorded this series -which is the best since "The Civil War". You needed a large HDD or at least two units that would interchange to a DVD-R. I recorded the whole series instead of paying $129 for the DVD. Mine is just as good- PBS has never been known for transfers. This series is so good that it boggles the mind. Thank goodness for HDD DRDRs.

The Pio 531,640 , Panny E-55 recorded this series -which is the best since "The Civil War". You needed a large HDD or at least two units that would interchange to a DVD-R. I recorded the whole series instead of paying $129 for the DVD. Mine is just as good- PBS has never been known for transfers. This series is so good that it boggles the mind. Thank goodness for HDD DRDRs.

Also necessary for a Bevis and Butthead marathon.

There was plenty of PBS "ad time" between episodes to swap disks. Here, at least. I recorded 4 episodes last Sunday and recorded 1, 6 and 7 earlier this week.

I recorded all seven episodes on the Philips 160gb HD in SP speed and dubbed to 4 DVD-R discs. I downloaded the picture of the soldier to make a cover and printed it on each disc. The WAR was broadcast OTA in HD, so as HoustonGuy states the recording is as good as it gets.

I have also experienced good results recording movies from DirecTV Starz & HBO HD using Panasonic & Pioneer recorders with hard drives. If you do any amount of recording from DirecTV or Cable a hard drive is indispensable.

Also necessary for a Bevis and Butthead marathon.

Also for Gene Autry's 100th Birthday. 100 Hours.
But I had to add 7 DVD-RAM to the EH-75 to do it.

It goes without saying a Hard drive is indispensible for editing and saving on permanent dvd-R's.

HoustonGuy,

I thought there was another new part coming up Wednesday?

BTW - I liked the video but music was a little too much for me. I wish I could have watched it without the music.

-DonB2

also good for the Twilight Zone marathon

HoustonGuy,

I thought there was another new part coming up Wednesday?

BTW - I liked the video but music was a little too much for me. I wish I could have watched it without the music.

-DonB2

I thought the music, and the sound track as a whole, was wonderful, and added much to the film. Music of the era, Wynton Marsalis, great, realistic explosions, shooting, what's not to like? But, if you really didn't like it, you should have turned your R/L channels off, and just listened to the center speaker, which is mostly speech.

Off thread here but there was one song "American Anthem" by Norah Jones in the D-Day part that should be up for record of the year, IMHO- Incredible.

Excellent shows, still playing with my Philips to get the disks as full as possible before redoing to maybe DL. The burns have looked great, even the SPP or whatever the 3 hour mode is called. I'd hate to sit there swapping disks for the whole thing, then going to pc to edit out the minor fluff.
Nora Jones has a beautiful voice and has some great music that is oustandlingly recorded on just about any medium you prefer. Her High res recordings are supposed to be why the few of us got combo players.

The Pio 531,640 , Panny E-55 recorded this series -which is the best since "The Civil War". You needed a large HDD or at least two units that would interchange to a DVD-R. I recorded the whole series instead of paying $129 for the DVD. Mine is just as good- PBS has never been known for transfers. This series is so good that it boggles the mind. Thank goodness for HDD DRDRs.

Of course you lose out on the DVD's 5.1 audio.

Even better are my 1080I HD, 5.1 copies made to DVHS tapes.

I was not listening to it with 5:1 turned on. Only stereo, With just stereo I found the music to be too loud to easily hear the speech. May have been a mixing issue.


-DonB2

I don't have 5.1 but I listened in stereo through my stereo system. I thought the sound was perfect, including the music. It is a good thing the pro's aren't influenced by public opinion.

The awesome thing was that all that film was silent. Can you imagine the work that went into creating the audio track, making the explosions sound real and synchronized with visual blasts. Adding all the yelling and chatter. They must have worked for years on the sound track, getting it right. The only thing I found unrealistic was the distant explosions where the sound was perfectly in sync with the blast. There should have been a time delay in the sound but I am not complaining.

I see PBS is running it again in High Def. Last night was episode #2 again.

Dave

Why pay $129.00 for the set?

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Are there 7 episodes, or 8??

The awesome thing was that all that film was silent. Can you imagine the work that went into creating the audio track, making the explosions sound real and synchronized with visual blasts. Adding all the yelling and chatter. They must have worked for years on the sound track, getting it right. The only thing I found unrealistic was the distant explosions where the sound was perfectly in sync with the blast. There should have been a time delay in the sound but I am not complaining.


Good call on the lack of delay, I hadn't caught that. But, yes, the sound track's creation of shooting and explosions was excellent. One needn't be told that it was a recreation, and not original sound, as the sound recording of the day didn't have anything like the fidelity and freq range of that sound track. I was watching in 5.1, and HD. A friend who watched with me jumped, and just about fell on the floor when a big one blew... :D



Are there 7 episodes, or 8??

7 eps, 2.5 or 2 hours each. Plus, local stations were running programming about locals in WW2 right after some eps.. First run was first week - Sun. - Wed., second week, Sun. - Tue.