dragoman
17th January 2002, 07:19
...how our hobbies define who we are?
I went and saw Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring tonight. Outstanding movie. The visuals and acting were excellent, the sound superb, the story as true to the book as anyone could expect.
During the movie, quite apart from my enjoyment of it, was the random thought here and there. "This part is rather dark....it should compress well." "I might have to stretch this one to a 3-CD rip."
Thoughts like these didn't detract me from enjoying the movie, not at all. Rather they enhanced it. Part of my enjoyment stemmed from the fact that I knew that once this movie became available on DVD, I would have a lot of fun ripping and encoding a superb copy of it.
This seems rather like I am obsessed with DivX and encoding, I know. But really I'm not.
I guess my point of this whole philosophical debacle is that I am thankful for my activities in movie encoding, because they can make a lot of other things I do more enjoyable, for instance watching a good movie.
Other things are affected too....like the first time you are watching a DivX encode that you finally got right and your friends ask if they can borrow the DVD when it is over....:)
Anyway, before I embarass myself any further, let me just say thank you to all of you here who have put time and energy into developing this fledgling technology we call DivX. It has given me many hours of enjoyment and hopefully will provide many more. Perhaps one day I can make my own contribution in the form of software.
Thanks again!
Rich
I went and saw Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring tonight. Outstanding movie. The visuals and acting were excellent, the sound superb, the story as true to the book as anyone could expect.
During the movie, quite apart from my enjoyment of it, was the random thought here and there. "This part is rather dark....it should compress well." "I might have to stretch this one to a 3-CD rip."
Thoughts like these didn't detract me from enjoying the movie, not at all. Rather they enhanced it. Part of my enjoyment stemmed from the fact that I knew that once this movie became available on DVD, I would have a lot of fun ripping and encoding a superb copy of it.
This seems rather like I am obsessed with DivX and encoding, I know. But really I'm not.
I guess my point of this whole philosophical debacle is that I am thankful for my activities in movie encoding, because they can make a lot of other things I do more enjoyable, for instance watching a good movie.
Other things are affected too....like the first time you are watching a DivX encode that you finally got right and your friends ask if they can borrow the DVD when it is over....:)
Anyway, before I embarass myself any further, let me just say thank you to all of you here who have put time and energy into developing this fledgling technology we call DivX. It has given me many hours of enjoyment and hopefully will provide many more. Perhaps one day I can make my own contribution in the form of software.
Thanks again!
Rich