Yoda and VJ?

[GPStyles]

We will ship internationally and charge only for the extra postage. Does your DVD player play standard U.S. DVDs?

Is it beyond the economies of scale to produce region specific DVD's?

Surely this would not be beyond the manufacturer?

[Yoda]

Is it beyond the economies of scale to produce region specific DVD's?

Surely this would not be beyond the manufacturer?

At the moment, I don't know anything about this problem -- except that it exists -- much less how to solve it. I will know a whole lot more this time next week.

There currently are LBG members in 52 countries. My sense is that we will produce one DVD. Those who know they can't play it will be offered a streaming version.

[KOC]

We will ship internationally and charge only for the extra postage. Does your DVD player play standard U.S. DVDs?

Yes as Paul said, my DVD player will not play U.S. DVDs and that's why I always perfer the streaming paypal method...

But I know that some DVD players can make the deal, I will look into it.

[Bagger Lance]

Yes as Paul said, my DVD player will not play U.S. DVDs and that's why I always perfer the streaming paypal method...

But I know that some DVD players can make the deal, I will look into it.

We've already made the downloadable videos and the challenge was the sheer size and quality. There is over 3 hours of instruction, all shot by a professional camera crew at very high quality. We spent several man-weeks working them over. We tried DivX, Windows Media and Quicktime. DivX was great but the files were large along with some trouble in getting codecs set up. We settled on Windows Media for the web version.

In order to preserve as much quality as possible from the original videos, the web version files are very large and broken into approximately 40 video segments or chapters. In other words, a ton of content that is such good quality, you won't want to stream it unless you have a very high bandwidth internet connection, even then it will pause to buffer the video.

So the only reasonable choice is to download each chapter to your computer and save it there. Around 6GB in total of video. The better choice is DVD which provides compact, easily to distribute, easy to store, and excellent quality medium. There is also a menu system for quickly accessing DVD chapters.

The quality of the DVD version is at least double or triple the web version. There's just no other way to do it without making the web videos over 20GB which would take days to download.

DVD is the best way to go.

[golfguru]

From the original 'edited' product, a PAL version is easy to produce physically but it will be more of a scale production effort for the production house. Might cost an extra $5 for a smaller run per copy for pure DVD.

Had my nose in video editing and compression format books this last week. What is that old saying about 'a little knowledge is a bad thing.'

[GPStyles]

3 weeks down the road - whats the latest Yoda?

[well01]

How do we buy the web version.

[drewitgolf]

Any update for the Jedi counsel ?

[Yoda]

Any update for the Jedi counsel ?

I left Atlanta with only minimal punchlist items to approve. Unfortunately, one of.these involves a specific disk approval that will have to wait until my return on the 26th. But, we're close . . . real close. The production folks are ready.to go, and so am I!

[GPStyles]

most pleased to hear that, we are.