why doom9

[ssjkakaroto]

hey doom9, why is your nick doom9?? does it have anything to do with idsoftware's doom??? :confused: :confused:

[cofferscuffs]

his story is here: http://www.doom9.org/message_to_my_readers.htm

[ssjkakaroto]

WOW, cool story! :D

[ChristianHJW]

hehehe .. never read this before :D ... my starting point was a DVD of 'Lord of the Dance' for my wife, at times when we even had no DVD player.
I had ordered a RC2 and got a RC1 ... without even noticing, because in the PC of my bros ( he had DVD drive and soft ) it would play fine .. the disappointment was huge when i took it to friend with 2 DVD standalone and we were unable to play the freakin' thing ...

I sent a letter back to the online store, and had to learn they gone bust .... so i had to rip it to be able to watch it ;) !

Hollywood probably should have saved the one time profit of flooding Europe with RC1 CDs, using some nasty Online stores ... at least my active time at DivX.com ( here at Doom9 i could be easily replaced ) should have cost them some of their profit i guess :D !!

[twistee]

I just read the 'about' section for the first time then as well (although I just was wondering aimlessly around the site and saw it). I cant believe doom9 owns 180 dvds....when you work that out that is a hell of a lot of money.

I first started to try and figure out dvd ripping when we got a new p3 450 with a dvd player...and my parents decided to buy batman (why batman?! i always hated that movie...but my parents decided to still buy it). I started looking at the dvd player just in 'my computer' and wondered if i could copy it to my hard drive and stuff. I tried a few programs and gave up (as we didnt have a big hard drive...and i thought waiting over 10 hours was too long...ofcourse now i do it all the time).

It took me ages to finally rip a dvd, i cant remember the first one i did...but i look at my first rips now and they are soooo bad. There arent in the proper aspect ratio and they just look bad. If it werent for this site i think my rips would still look like shit. thanks doom9 :)

[Nic]

Quite sincerely it was this site that drew my interest into video encoding...and without it I wouldn't have my job. :)

(I suppose, by that reasoning alone, I should really go donate)

Cheers,
-Nic

[Doom9]

180? that must be wrong.. I think I have about 250 by now.. but somewhere around 200 I lost count.

[ShinerSpoon]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes by any chance? :) A true classic! Er, I doubt it ever made in onto dvd.

[Uli]

Originally posted by ShinerSpoon
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes by any chance? :) A true classic! Er, I doubt it ever made in onto dvd.

ehhmhhmmm...
how about Barbarella, Dark star and other golden trashies? ;)

greetz, Uli

[canadian_fbi]

hey nic, what is your job anyway? if you don't mind me asking. sometimes i find it almost hard to believe that people developing stuff for this site have jobs, with the amount of time they put into the site :) and i have to say that this site has really given me a huge interest into video encoding as well... i've been into audio encoding for a while, but video is really a whole new ballgame.

[Nic]

Its kinda hard to explain...& im not allowed to tell you clients or client specifics.

I do alot of "interfacing" :) i.e. interfacing with hardware MPEG-2 encoders, WMV, stuff like that :)

-Nic

[cofferscuffs]

Ooooooo!!!!

NSA!!!!
narc!!!

lol, it must pretty important (= well paid :D) if you can't tell us.