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| Thread ID: 44164 | 2004-04-09 12:14:00 | How do Hard Drive video recorders store so much? | Winston001 (3612) | Press F1 |
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| 228292 | 2004-04-09 12:14:00 | Just looked at the Panasonic DMR100H DVD-RAM on www.panasonic.co.nz Says it's got an 80gb HD and can record 106 hours of video. My reading from this forum is that half an hour of video will use about 15gb. So how do they do it? |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 228293 | 2004-04-09 12:33:00 | half an hour of video in 15Gb will be DV quality uncompreesed format. a Hard Drive video recorder will be doing low resolution (same as the TV) and very compressed. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 228294 | 2004-04-10 02:31:00 | My cursory reading of the work done by people making their own (with Linux) indicates about 1GB per hour. Don't record the advertisements and you've got it made. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 228295 | 2004-04-10 06:17:00 | Must say the hard drive system seems the way of future for video recording. | Young Tom (5503) | ||
| 228296 | 2004-04-10 06:52:00 | The 106hrs recording is using the maximum compression/lowest quality recording setting. Best use for this setting is say you are away from home for a while and want to record a lot of TV shows to watch when you return but don't want to keep for future watching (by burning to DVD). Hard drive recorders are definetly the way to look if you are interested in purchasing a DVD recorder. By using the hard drive to record everything you wish too, and then only burning items you wish to keep for long term onto a DVD disc then you will recover the extra price of the unit over a non-HD recorder fairly quickly (ie - not requiring a DVD-R disc for every recording) |
Otago_Jas (4444) | ||
| 228297 | 2004-04-10 07:06:00 | > Must say the hard drive system seems the way of future for video recording. Until the harddrive pattu's out. |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 228298 | 2004-04-10 08:32:00 | I understand the new models come out in April as advised by Slade Appliances......it is thought they will be the latest models...... | olldaddy76 (2539) | ||
| 228299 | 2004-04-10 22:48:00 | > half an hour of video in 15Gb will be DV quality > uncompreesed format. > > a Hard Drive video recorder will be doing low > resolution (same as the TV) and very compressed. To get the full 106 hours yes you do lose some quality but not much. I have one and it has various modes. It alters it bit rate depending on what is playing to save space. The signal from Sky is just as good as it came from sky and when recording from a DVD onto the hard disk is almost as good as well. It certainly is not low res. 45 minutes at XP recording takes about 350MB of space which is as good as DIVX, XP is its best quality rate. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 228300 | 2004-04-11 06:22:00 | > Must say the hard drive system seems the way of future for video > recording. > Until the harddrive pattu's out. How big of a prob is likely to be?? |
Young Tom (5503) | ||
| 228301 | 2004-04-11 07:54:00 | The hard drive should last atleast two years, depending n quality. Ofcourse, then you can replac it with a better quality, and much bigger one! | Growly (6) | ||
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