Zeta Project Batman Crossovers

[ZorBrak]

I never really liked the Zeta Project, but I was just thinking about somthing, if Batman Beyond is released in season sets, following Batman TAS(if Batman TAS is released in boxes first, of course) and sells well, do you think the crossover episodes in which Batman made appearences on "The Zeta Project" should be put on any of the DVDS?

[Maxie Zeus]

Well, there was only one. Maybe it could be included as an extra, but we wouldn't miss anything if "Shadows" disappeared into the shade.

[James Harvey]

I hear ya, Mxie. I don't think anyone'll miss that episode. Now, the real question is will we ever get Batman Beyond DVDs...

[ZorBrak]

Well maybe not officially, but with those new DVD TV recorders thigns are looking awesome, I am currently taping BB on Cartoon Network hopefully they will air them all beofre they decide that the need more scooby programming and pull it off aire forever, and then once i got them all and have put the episodes in chronological order ill port them to dvd, course the sound and visuals wont be all that nice...damn you warner! why cant fox own all the DC animated series nooooooooooo! warner really just...sucks

[SSNTails]

Actually, I'm already doing DVD-ish recordings of Batman Beyond:

http://www2.gvsu.edu/~fredaa/guess.jpg

No video tape here... I go straight off the satellite on the SVideo port.

[ZorBrak]

Cool, Unfortunatly the quality on my DVDs will actually be VHS since thats what Ill be porting them from but oh well, Id rather have fuzzy sound muffled episodes than none at all

[SSNTails]

Nah, port them to MPEG4 instead (DivX). Gives you a much smaller file size (DVD is MPEG2).

[ZorBrak]

ahh you lost me i dont know squat about this kind of stuff, i think what your saying is that I can actually port the AVI episodes that I downloaded from morpheus to dvd and watch them on my player...errr maybe not...im stupid sorry :p

[SSNTails]

No, I'm saying that porting (real term is 'encoding') to MPEG4 is better than porting to MPEG2. DVD is an old technology.

[Vigo Sprax]

But MPEG2 is standardized and wildy accepted, and really MPEG2 is better quality...the advantage of MPEG4 is the space it takes up. Anyhow, theres no way we're going to see MPEG4 come to a thing like TiVo for a while, since the requirements to encode that in real time are currently too high for a consumer electronic's target price. Even when you record it off of satallite with your computer, I'm pretty sure you're not recording it directly to DivX but rather to one format converted to that.

[SSNTails]

Yeah, I'm going from MJPEG to DivX.

I'd have to argue against the statement that MPEG2 looks better than MPEG4.. it depends how you encode it. MPEG4 can achieve an identical picture at a much lower bitrate than MPEG2. It's just that generally the divx movies you see use a really really low bitrate.

[oranthal]

DVD players can't read MPEG4 can they?


Originally posted by SSNTails
Yeah, I'm going from MJPEG to DivX.

I'd have to argue against the statement that MPEG2 looks better than MPEG4.. it depends how you encode it. MPEG4 can achieve an identical picture at a much lower bitrate than MPEG2. It's just that generally the divx movies you see use a really really low bitrate.

[SSNTails]

No, they can't. You'd have to wait for MPEG4 players to hit the market (which might be happening in a year or so - dedicated decoder chips have already been built).

But that's why I'm building a tiny PC in a box with a remote to hook up to my TV and use as a player. :D

[ZorBrak]

OK OK I think I get this now, you record episodes to your computer while they are airing and then you can burn them to a DVDR if they are in MPEG2 mode? How do you do that? what kind of equipment would I need that would beat the hell outta this grainy VHS method

[SSNTails]

*Computer (custom built to be dedicated to the task)
* Professional video editing board (if you want a good picture - consumer doesn't cut it)
*Dedicated 7200rpm hard disk
*Knowledge of how video works & different compression and image techniques.

FYI, it took me 5 years to get where I am now...

[ZorBrak]

crap well im a slow laerner with the budget of your average 15 year old so I expect I wont be doing any thing like this for quite a while :p