{"id":191,"date":"2007-04-03T20:39:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T01:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2007-06-17T21:59:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T02:59:24","slug":"sending-a-tv-program-to-another-room-easy-media-creator-poor-looking-dvds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Sending a TV program to another room, Easy Media Creator, poor-looking DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week of August 27, 2006<\/p>\n<p>Q: I want to have a TV in my garage, but don&#8217;t want to wire it for satelite. (That is what I use in the rest of the house.) Is there a product that can project the signal from the house to the garage?<\/p>\n<p>-Don Anderson, Minneapolis, MN<\/p>\n<p>A: The Terk LeapFrog LF-30S will transmit the audio\/video signal up to 150 feet away and allow you to change channels on your satellite box. It retails for $99 and can be seen at www.terk.com.<\/p>\n<p>Q: In a recent column you recommended Adobe Premiere Elements for video editing. I was also condidering Roxio Easy Media Creator 8. Do you think Adobe is the better product?<\/p>\n<p>-Robert Albrecht, Wichita, KS<\/p>\n<p>A: Easy Media Creator is more of a general purpose media and disc burning software than a specialized video editing application. If you want to edit video on a Windows computer, Premiere Elements is the better product and the industry standard for consumer-level applications. You can get Premiere Elements 2.0 in a bundle with Photoshop Elements 4.0 for under $150, so check out the bundle if you do any photo editing.<\/p>\n<p>Q: I have over a hundred DVD titles and I find that if the orignal film was poor the DVD is poor in clarity. I have an LCD HD\/TV with component DVD connections. How does HD-DVD improve the orignal if it is poor? Am I to spend another bundle on HD-DVD disks for perhaps marignal improvement?<\/p>\n<p>-Pete Luban, Thousand Oaks, CA<\/p>\n<p>A: Digital remastering may enhance the quality of any film transferred, whether to DVD or HD-DVD. It is unlikely you will find films with poor technical quality transferred to HD-DVD unless a concerted effort is made to improve the image, as the higher resolution format would only enhance the flaws.<\/p>\n<p>Unless your TV screen is over 32 inches the difference between a good progressive-scan DVD player and HD-DVD may not be that great, and unless a movie is an absolute favorite, I would not re-buy it on HD-DVD. It may be hard to find a duplicate version, anyway. At the moment HD-DVD selection is sparse.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  addthis_url    = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.soundadviceblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D191';\n  addthis_title  = 'Sending+a+TV+program+to+another+room%2C+Easy+Media+Creator%2C+poor-looking+DVDs';\n  addthis_pub    = '';\n<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/addthis_widget.php?v=12\" ><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week of August 27, 2006 Q: I want to have a TV in my garage, but don&#8217;t want to wire it for satelite. (That is what I use in the rest of the house.) Is there a product that can project the signal from the house to the garage? -Don Anderson, Minneapolis, MN A: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,24,20,21,13,12,16,17,25,14,4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soundadviceblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}