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| Thread ID: 59030 | 2005-06-19 08:38:00 | DVD REcorders | taxboy4 (579) | PC World Chat |
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| 365282 | 2005-06-24 00:53:00 | who actually uses teletext subtitles anyway??? I think you just had a "Doh" moment. Used to be my speciality till i leant to think before i spoke :D |
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| 365283 | 2005-07-13 04:43:00 | Definately networkable as that is what I have just done to mine.... Thanks for this post. This is exactly what I want to do. But I dont want to spend $2000 then find it does not work. What I want to do is take the file on and convert it to avi in the process. Final quality to be fairly good if possible. How easy is the editing (for removing ads that is). Thanks for helping out a prospective purchaser. |
DBee (8380) | ||
| 365284 | 2005-07-13 07:36:00 | Ok File quality 1st Depending on the compression mode used the 400 Gb hard drive will hold up to 709 hours. I tend to use a standard mode that gives very good quality, comparable to DVD quality that will fill the drive with about 170 hours of programs. It can also use a shrink to fit compression to fill remaining space on the drive or a disk if space is an issue. Editing is relatively easy, enter editing mode, place a marker at the start of the sequence to be deleted another at the end and then delete the middle. Slow motion search can be used for this and you can virtually pick frame by frame. For longer sequences the faster search can be used. You can place chapter points in any part of a recorded show to find scenes again quickly. Chapters can also be moved eg ABDCEF can become ACFEDB or deleted entirely Programs can be named after recording and also protected from "accidental" deletion. Program deletion is also fairly painless, it asks you to confirm etc so not that easy to accidently erase something. The main navigator screen is also pretty cool it flips up the 1st scene of each recorded program 6 tiles at a time and plays the file within the selected window so you can see what program it is. Properties on the menu will tell you the date, time, channel and length of the recorded program and the name if it was entered before recording. G Code can be used for timer recording You can watch a previously recorded program whilst recording another. You cannot delete a program whilst recording For those that wish to watch a program in a hurry, play X 1.3 can be used, the actors move a little bit quicker and say things a little bit faster but it's still perfectly watchable and listenable. I've just edited up the Toyota Bugger and Instant Kiwi tractor ad on the drive from VCR tape, the only thing that lets them down is the they came up of video tape and recorded in LP at the time. I have also just edited up the Finn Brothers concert that screened a few weeks back, this was recorded on SVHS, so last weekend I pulled it in and removed the adverts and now have a great concert to watch and listen to. Some of you will say as I have seen in other threads that this can all be done on a computer with a TV tuner card and a decent hard drive, trouble was you still have to compress it in most cases or then burn it to DVD to go out to the tv to watch it, for me the big issue was time whereas it's compressed as it recorded and I have instant access to the programs where I wish to view them. |
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