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Last week I embarked on project that took many hours of work and a couple late nights, archiving all the Cardinals playoffs games I had DVR'd in HD onto Blu-Ray discs. All the HD game footage was eating up valuable hard drive space, so it was time to archive it or lose it. Last year I bought a Hauppauge HD PVR, a device for PC's which lets you record HD programming from cable/satellite set-top boxes to your hard drive using the component outputs. And I purchased a Blu-Ray burner for my PC so I could start archiving HD programming to BD once the prices of blanks was reasonable (hasn't happened yet!). I bit the bullet on the pricey blank BD discs and finally put the Blu-Ray burner to good use.
I had captured the HD broadcasts of the NFC Wildcard game against Atlanta, the NFC Championship game and the Super Bowl, all off Cox HD cable in 1920x1080i, DD 5.1 sound. I'm kicking myself now for not having recorded the Carolina game to complete the collection! After trying out quite a few free/shareware tools for editing H.264 HD video without much success, I finally found a beta version of a software package that let me cut out all the commercials from all three games without any re-encoding to preserve the original quality. Taking out the commercials allowed me to get all three games onto two 25GB Blu-Ray discs with additional HD extras. 6 hours of HD footage on both discs. I authored the discs w/ menus using Arcsoft Total Media Extreme, the only software I could find that would burn the HD PVR footage to Blu-Ray without re-encoding the footage and losing quality.
Disc 1 has Super Bowl XLIII, 2 hours of highlights from NBC's Super Bowl Sunday pregame, the Bruce Springsteen halftime show and Channel 12's HD footage of the Cardinals welcome home rally at Sky Harbor Airport the day after the game.
Disc 2 has the Atlanta NFC Wildcard game, NFC Championship against Philly, NFL Films "Road to the Super Bowl" NFL season recap (aired on NBC Super Bowl Sunday), the Monsters vs Aliens 3D movie trailer along with the other two 3D commercials that followed it just before halftime.
I'm very happy with the final results. The Blu-Ray discs I burned look and sound awesome played on my HDTV and home theater sound system with my PS3, looking just as sharp as the original HD broadcasts without commercials to skip through. The discs should play on any standalone or PC Blu-Ray player.
I'd like to offer a limited number of these Blu-Ray discs to other fans on this board. I wish I could offer these for free, but the cost of burning Blu-Ray discs is still high unfortunately. Blank Blu-Ray discs run $10 or more a pop unless you buy them in quantity. I picked up at Fry's last weekend three 10-disc spindles of Verbatim 25GB Blu-Ray's along with empty Blu-Ray plastic cases and bubble mailers . Nearly $250 in expenses. GULP! I'm not looking to make a profit on these, only get back the expenses incurred.
Adding in postage, the total of getting both discs with the Blu-Ray plastic case comes to $22. Without the plastic Blu-Ray case, $21 (you'll get it in a paper sleeve).
If you're only interested in one of the two discs, not both, the total is $14 with the plastic case, $13 without.
If interested in getting one or both discs, send me a PM indicating which disc(s) you want and whether you want the plastic case. I'll keep accepting requests in the order they're received until all 30 blank BD discs have been accounted for. At which point the offer will be closed. I'll update this post once the offer is closed. As far as the method for accepting payments for expenses, I'll use Paypal and send out PM's to everyone getting the discs with my Paypal address and your total amount once I've finished accepting requests.
I had originally planned to post this offer Monday night and already be burning discs by now, but I received very bad news on Monday that my grandmother up in Canada had lost her fight with leukemia and passed away early Monday morning. So I had to put this on the backburner a few days while I make make arrangements to fly up to Montreal for her funeral this weekend. I don't expect to start burning any discs until next Tuesday after I get back into town.
Here are screenshots of the two disc menus along with a photo of the Blu-Ray case w/ custom artwork..
If you're curious, I already checked if there's going to be "official" Blu-Ray discs of the Cardinals playoff games. The Super Bowl will be available in Blu-Ray as part of a 2-disc Steelers "Road to the Super Bowl" set containing all their playoff games and the victory that clinched their division title. That's coming out in June. There will be a Arizona Cardinals NFC Champions DVD coming out in June, no Blu-Ray. I don't think it'll contain any of the complete playoff games, more of a season review with playoff highlights. I don't know if this is the same disc being sent to season ticket holders.
I had captured the HD broadcasts of the NFC Wildcard game against Atlanta, the NFC Championship game and the Super Bowl, all off Cox HD cable in 1920x1080i, DD 5.1 sound. I'm kicking myself now for not having recorded the Carolina game to complete the collection! After trying out quite a few free/shareware tools for editing H.264 HD video without much success, I finally found a beta version of a software package that let me cut out all the commercials from all three games without any re-encoding to preserve the original quality. Taking out the commercials allowed me to get all three games onto two 25GB Blu-Ray discs with additional HD extras. 6 hours of HD footage on both discs. I authored the discs w/ menus using Arcsoft Total Media Extreme, the only software I could find that would burn the HD PVR footage to Blu-Ray without re-encoding the footage and losing quality.
Disc 1 has Super Bowl XLIII, 2 hours of highlights from NBC's Super Bowl Sunday pregame, the Bruce Springsteen halftime show and Channel 12's HD footage of the Cardinals welcome home rally at Sky Harbor Airport the day after the game.
Disc 2 has the Atlanta NFC Wildcard game, NFC Championship against Philly, NFL Films "Road to the Super Bowl" NFL season recap (aired on NBC Super Bowl Sunday), the Monsters vs Aliens 3D movie trailer along with the other two 3D commercials that followed it just before halftime.
I'm very happy with the final results. The Blu-Ray discs I burned look and sound awesome played on my HDTV and home theater sound system with my PS3, looking just as sharp as the original HD broadcasts without commercials to skip through. The discs should play on any standalone or PC Blu-Ray player.
I'd like to offer a limited number of these Blu-Ray discs to other fans on this board. I wish I could offer these for free, but the cost of burning Blu-Ray discs is still high unfortunately. Blank Blu-Ray discs run $10 or more a pop unless you buy them in quantity. I picked up at Fry's last weekend three 10-disc spindles of Verbatim 25GB Blu-Ray's along with empty Blu-Ray plastic cases and bubble mailers . Nearly $250 in expenses. GULP! I'm not looking to make a profit on these, only get back the expenses incurred.
Adding in postage, the total of getting both discs with the Blu-Ray plastic case comes to $22. Without the plastic Blu-Ray case, $21 (you'll get it in a paper sleeve).
If you're only interested in one of the two discs, not both, the total is $14 with the plastic case, $13 without.
If interested in getting one or both discs, send me a PM indicating which disc(s) you want and whether you want the plastic case. I'll keep accepting requests in the order they're received until all 30 blank BD discs have been accounted for. At which point the offer will be closed. I'll update this post once the offer is closed. As far as the method for accepting payments for expenses, I'll use Paypal and send out PM's to everyone getting the discs with my Paypal address and your total amount once I've finished accepting requests.
I had originally planned to post this offer Monday night and already be burning discs by now, but I received very bad news on Monday that my grandmother up in Canada had lost her fight with leukemia and passed away early Monday morning. So I had to put this on the backburner a few days while I make make arrangements to fly up to Montreal for her funeral this weekend. I don't expect to start burning any discs until next Tuesday after I get back into town.
Here are screenshots of the two disc menus along with a photo of the Blu-Ray case w/ custom artwork..
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If you're curious, I already checked if there's going to be "official" Blu-Ray discs of the Cardinals playoff games. The Super Bowl will be available in Blu-Ray as part of a 2-disc Steelers "Road to the Super Bowl" set containing all their playoff games and the victory that clinched their division title. That's coming out in June. There will be a Arizona Cardinals NFC Champions DVD coming out in June, no Blu-Ray. I don't think it'll contain any of the complete playoff games, more of a season review with playoff highlights. I don't know if this is the same disc being sent to season ticket holders.
Same here.
