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| Thread ID: 92395 | 2008-08-08 22:44:00 | VCR outdated | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 695981 | 2008-08-09 02:25:00 | OP: What do you have to burn DVD's , what are you replacing your VCR with? I still got a VCR here gets used occasionally, also got a DVD Recorder though. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 695982 | 2008-08-09 03:09:00 | Gosh I got some fair amount of interest here. Perhaps I misled some of you. I don't have a problem at the moment - with two fairly recent VCRs I expect to be OK for a long time yet. And I also have an excellent SONY DVD recorder with hard drive and still cannot believe just how good it is. Its just that I am curious about what will happen in the future. I have already converted some of our tapes to DVDs by copying to the HD then downloading to DVDs. But it takes time and somehow I just do not see me doing all the stuff I have. Sad really as one tape is full of very old ice skating history taken (silent of course) in the days of 8mm film. One of my old friends spent ages downloading the lot to tape. When he died the tape was given to me. But it is of limited interest - even so I should take the trouble to download it to DVD. I do think that it is likely that some people will set themselves up to copy tapes. (NOT ME!). Will they ever be in a position to copy them at high speed? Looking at the DVD Sony recorder I have just one disappointment - it will not copy teletext sub titles. Several technicians have told me that it is not possible to copy the subtitles to either VCRs or DVD recorders. Which is strange because a friend in the UK has been using a Philips VCR for about 10 years to do just that. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 695983 | 2008-08-09 03:17:00 | I did a quick poll at work yesterday lunch time, I am the only owner of a VCR we have about 20 employees. 2 have HDD recorders the rest only have DVD players no one has a DVD recorder. It seems no one at my work wants to record TV programmes anymore apart from the 3 of us that can everyone else just gets DVD's from the shop to watch or from the library That's very interesting. It is getting to be the same way with audio cassettes, it is getting hard to buy machines with them |
Digby (677) | ||
| 695984 | 2008-08-09 06:34:00 | Yep, things are going to the dogs allright. I can't get new wax cylinders anywhere locally, recorded or blank, nor does the local TV shop have any bearings in stock for my Logie-Baird TV. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 695985 | 2008-08-09 21:02:00 | And not to forget blue-ray coming up,oh where will it end,my head is spinning. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 695986 | 2008-08-10 02:48:00 | What I fail to understand is why, after having a VCR all these years (from 1980?) that will not only play but record tv programmes, anyone would buy a machine that only plays a DVD but does not record. Most peculiar, and yet it seems that more people are buying players rather than player/recoders. With VCRs on the wane, what will they do when their VCR breaks down and they can no longer get it fixed or buy a new one? If they only have a DVD player and wish to record they will have to purchase another machine.:illogical I think the assumption of those who buy DVD players think they'll use their desktop computers for any conversions or recording they might need in the future and just keep the player as a simple, specialized device. That's what I thought if it matters. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 695987 | 2008-08-10 02:57:00 | Which is strange because a friend in the UK has been using a Philips VCR for about 10 years to do just that . Tom I think the really old VCRs had no hardware or firmware for the security standards that came along a lot later after Hollywood found out that anyone could dub some tapes for profit themselves . We used to have to take the output and run it into about 6,000 turns of #32 AW copper insulated/epoxied wire that was then overlaid with another matching 6,000 turns of the same gauge and type of wire that went to the recording VCR . We wrapped the turns on a large oatmeal box ( . photobucket . com/albums/dd228/petluvr01/Quaker-OatmealEC986355_Full . jpg" target="_blank">i226 . photobucket . com), separated by a layer of waxed paper . That way there was no physical connex and the machines didn't think they were being hacked . That was also a long time go . I've become much more sophisticated by now . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 695988 | 2008-08-10 03:11:00 | Up Salience. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 695989 | 2008-08-10 03:50:00 | No...UP Sidebars! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 695990 | 2008-08-10 11:43:00 | [QUOTE=R2x1;701703]Yep, things are going to the dogs allright. I can't get new wax cylinders anywhere locally, recorded or blank, nor does the local TV shop have any bearings in stock for my Logie-Baird TV.[/Q Check your local newspaper in classified adds for 'Brazilian used wax rolls'. Bound to be some there, somewhere.! ! | BobM (1138) | ||
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