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In Reply to: S-VHS posted by wheezer on March 14, 2001 at 03:07:36:
...those TiVo things? There are a lot of products that use memory chips or drives like a computer for recording TV shows. The recording is digital (although some might have better compression than others), and you get a whole bunch of extra options compared to a DVD-RAM (writable drive). I know that one option includes recording two different TV shows at the same time. The only drawback right now is that I don't know if you can archive shows on discs or tapes like DVD and VHS.Most of my experience in is computers, and I think there shouldn't be any problem for these companies of offer some method for archiving. Does anyone else have experience with the products I'm talking about?
As for your S-VHS question, I've always heard that JVC S-VHS players are pretty good. If you are doing a lot of recording, you will probably want to spend a little more to get better recording heads. Sorry for the babble.
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My background is computers as well. A programmer, systems analyst from the early 80's.
SO I guess a safe assumption will be ZIP drives for a library of digital movies from the hard drive??????Mitch
I should have read ahead, I see many of my musing are now moot since other inmates have informed me of some interesting new products.
I don't think that they've integrated those technologies, although if you have a computer with a video input you could DIY. I wouldn't use zip drives because of their instability as an archiving resource (if you write to them too many times they will likely corrupt). CD-R would probably be a better solution, perhaps using a dvx or mpeg3 compression. An extra hard drive devoted to recording shows off the connection, then burn it to CD (or DVD-RAM in Apple's case). I actually don't know why no major companies (such as Apple) have set up a program for doing this. TiVo like products seem to be the closest option.I'm getting off topic though, I just wanted to give you an option to a VCR when it comes to recording your favorite show.
-Cheers
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