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| Thread ID: 112992 | 2010-09-30 07:43:00 | New Telstra cable 'T-box' installed today (Wellington) | BBCmicro (15761) | PC World Chat |
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| 1140646 | 2010-10-04 08:44:00 | So can you transfer what you have recorded to disk? No. At least not via the USB ports. And there is a 'warranty void' sticker across the case to discourage you from taking the HDD out But today I captured some of the recordings to my PC using a cheap USB capture stick (Compro Videomate C200). This stick is poor quality (sound 10 dB low, picture dropouts 30 per hour) and doesn't work with Win7pro64 - but results were encouraging I proved - - there doesn't appear to be Macrovision on the Tbox analogue outputs - the composite output parallels the HDMI ie both occur together - the analogue output is quite good when viewed direct on the TV - a good capture stick should work fine particularly if it has RGB inputs or s-video (the Tbox has RGB and s-video outputs) It is desirable to edit any videos kept for archiving to get rid of start-stop time padding (2 minutes before the start and 2 minutes after the end) and to cut out the adverts. Editing means re-encoding. The quality hit caused by re-encoding might mean that the quality hit caused by analogue capture won't be noticed |
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| 1140647 | 2010-10-04 09:07:00 | The following box (Anyware Probox) would appear to be ideal for connecting to the RGB output of the Tbox to capture the recordings: (pricing is Australian and 'old') www.pccasegear.com |
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