digitalFAQ.com
About Us
Who are we?
digitalFAQ.com is a site created by a cartoon collector wanting to help fellow
hobbyists learn video, specifically for the purpose of converting cartoon and television shows
from video tape to DVD. In time, this has grown to include
many more topics of video and DVD, as well as professional
media services.
Is this site for professionals or newbies?
The answer is "neither".
The site is aimed at explaining
otherwise complicated video and computer techniques to the
layman. Therefore the programs and equipment
used are the most user-friendly options that exists, without
sacrificing quality. It strives to provide up-to-date
materials on many aspects of DVD-based digital video and related
software. Experienced video professionals have contacted us
with thanks for the information found here, as well as
newbies and all those that lie in between.
How can you have so much information?
The primary author and owner of the site credits his knowledge as
being a collaborative effort amongst friends, fellow cartoon collectors, and several
members of videohelp.com. The site serves as his personal
notebook, but put online so the rest of the
world may benefit from his knowledge and experience.
What do my donations pay for?
Without donations, this site would not exist today.
Everything you see was funded by donations. Most donations
go toward the maintenance of the many free guides found on this site,
including a very large bandwidth/server/domain bill. Some goes to hardware
and software, mostly for testing purposes, which in turn is
used to make guides. The rest is spent at Taco Bell, if
there is any left. If you find this site helpful, please
make a donation so it can survive.
Is digitalFAQ.com some sort of company?
No, not really. This site and it's services are provided by
one person and several of his associates. However, service
and information are our top priorities.
Who answers the e-mail? Writes guides? Support Forum?
All e-mail is answered by the owner of the site. Guides and
responses found in the digitalFAQ.com Tech Support Forum are
written by both the owner and his associates.
All guides are
copyrighted by digitalFAQ.com:
Unless noted, all guides found on the digitalFAQ.com domain
were written by this owners of this site. Guides may not be copied or reproduced in
part or as a whole. Printable PDF files are provided for
personal use. Links from other sites are allowable, though I
do enjoy the courtesy of notification.
Having trouble viewing the site?
If your firewall is set too
high, if your Internet/LAN settings are customized to block
most connections, or you have a pop-up blocker, some of this
site may not function properly. Please reduce the firewall
level to normal levels, allow cookies and Javascripts, and
disable the pop-up blocker. Netscape 7 or higher and IE 5.5 or
higher are all that I support, as that is 95 percent of the viewing
audience. Site is IE optimized.
Site traffic and stats:
Currently, the digitalFAQ.com site attracts between and
50,000 and 200,000 unique
IP addresses per month, it can vary month to month. Many visitors come back for multiple
sessions. The average viewers stays for about 5 minutes, with
more than 25 percent staying longer than 5 minutes. This number
increases on a monthly basis. This site can generate up to
2GB of traffic per day on average, and can peak out at
twice that on heavy days. The site is compressed to absolute
maximums to achieve highest possible bandwidth efficiency
and fast page loading. The
most visited pages are the capturing guides, video editing
guides, and DVD media guides.
Software images and sample video clips:
All programs and images thereof are the copyright of the
respective owners. All video clips and images found on this
site serve as examples and fall within the confines of the
Fair Use Doctrine, as this site is educational in nature.
Fair content criticism:
This site will not purposely libel (written slander) any
company or individual, however we do fairly review hardware
and software. If we think it "sucks" or is
"garbage" it will be labeled as such. Inversely,
if we find it "amazing" or "excellent"
it too will be labeled as such. We gladly accept new
software and hardware for review purposes. We acquire new
hardware, blank media and software on a monthly basis, and
as time permits, write
reviews/guides
on it from our findings.
Piracy stance:
Simply stated, piracy is usually bad. We do not condone
software piracy or copyright infringement. All guides found
on this site are intended for legal use only. People that
explicitly ask for assistance with their mal-obtained wares
are turned away or ignored. No software is
available for download from this site, although some links
are provided to official company sites where viewers may
purchase it.
Thanks for reading the digitalFAQ.com ... FAQ! :)
Page Last Updated: May 17th 2005
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