More DVD stuff + TNG notes

[jessybxx]

Even the ripped version of the Q DVDs don't work correctly. Well, that's 32 GB of HDD space saved *throws the files away*
Boy am I glad that I have Kan-chan and his stone age DVD drive. He played all of the discs without much complaint.
Why, you ask?
Well, the newer a drive is (this concerns both CD and DVD and I'm pretty sure it will be similar once BluRay and HD-DVD become important), the better its reading capability and the more sensitive it is to errors. Old drives simply overlook pressing errors and such. Because they're old and imprecise. Which, as you might have seen by now, is a good thing.
Case in point: Dad's old standalone CD player. That thing plays every damn CD-R(W), no matter how badly it's burned.
It's a law of the tech world. So my advice would be thus:
Be sure to a) try all the drives you have if you have problems reading a disc and b) keep some old drive for emergencies such as my Q DVD set or audio CDs that have heavy copy protection or pressing errors.
That was today's geek lesson, folks ^_~

Okay, now. Some words about the DVD set.
Right now, I find it hard to believe that I was able to develop a crush on a certain character without knowing his un-dubbed version.
Translation: The dub is OK but the original version is almost too great to be true O_o
John rocks. Terribly. OMFG yeah.
I'll try to come up with some more details tomorrow. And that will probably include some observations on the differences between the dub and the original version (vouces, translation, performance) and of course on the character of Q himself, now that I know how he REALLY is.

In other - but not really different - news: I've been hit by a tidal wave of ideas for funny (read: funny in my twisted opinion XD) Q icons. And now that I finally installed a version of PSP on Kan-chan, I might actually try and make some...

Oh, and I have a new favourite word. Quaint. *snort*
It's amazing how well Cecelia Fannon (she wrote the Spock VS Q audio plays) captured his language. Same goes for certain P/Q writers out there. It always makes me laugh to bump into words that couldn't be more typical for our favourite entity.
Heh. I think Q must be amazing to write. What a character ;)

Comments

[rdyfrde.livejournal.com]

Right now, I find it hard to believe that I was able to develop a crush on a certain character without knowing his un-dubbed version.
Translation: The dub is OK but the original version is almost too great to be true O_o

That is hard to believe. I just assumed you had heard what he sounds like on the show. Then again, you are in a foreign country and I don't know how many programs that are broadcasted in English. Probably not very many I'd imagine.

[jessybxx.livejournal.com]

That is hard to believe. I just assumed you had heard what he sounds like on the show. Then again, you are in a foreign country and I don't know how many programs that are broadcasted in English. Probably not very many I'd imagine.
Well, I'd say it's close to zero. But we have an extensive history of dubbing. Which unfortunately doesn't neccessarily say anything about the quality. Look forward to my TNG original VS dub observations!
You have no idea how happy I am that there's things like multi-audio DVDs these days.
And then, when I first had that crush on John I was thirteen years old and had had about two years of English classes. So even if there had been any un-dubbed TNG available, I wouldn't have understood much of it.
That being said, I mastered the first Zelda game on the NES without getting ANY of it because back then games were not being translated ;)

[rdyfrde.livejournal.com]

You didn't start getting English classes until age 11?! Wow. Though it does make sense if you think about it. That just seems odd to me since I got them all 13 (12 + Kindergarden) years in school.

[jessybxx.livejournal.com]

This country just doesn't seem to want to understand how important learning foreign languages really is.
... not that I consider English "foreign". I prefer to call it my adopted second mother tongue <3

[rdyfrde.livejournal.com]

Considering it's one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, it would make sense to teach it. Then again, some countries don't see it that way. Heck, my own country barely teaches other languages in school either. I wasn't allowed to learn German until I was 14.