The trend in home recording looks like being digital, but not hard drive as I first expected. It looks as if -* s-video is nearly dead (no Panasonic machines, still one JVC but I cannot locate any others)
* the flirtation with hard drives is short lived. JVC had a machine which would do s-video + hard drive but it was so unpopular they have withdrawn production of it
* the next step, being pioneered by SONY, - home DVD recording. So, instead of time shifting by tape, we record a DVD.
I'm not sure how to react. Access will be far quicker & easier but it remains to be seen about quality and reliability. Yet on second thoughts it will not have much of a task to better VCRs, even the s-video variety!
Anyone experienced the new recording DVD machines?
John
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Topic - Home recording trends - VCR's dying - John C. - Aussie 23:22:20 08/14/02 (14)
- Digital VCR - sbrians 11:12:38 08/16/02 (1)
- most recent D-VHS incarnation - Mart 13:03:46 08/16/02 (0)
- Re: Home recording trends - VCR's dying - House de Kris 19:32:39 08/15/02 (3)
- Re: Home recording trends - VCR's dying - John C. - Aussie 01:48:24 08/16/02 (2)
- Re: Home recording trends - VCR's dying - House de Kris 08:39:31 08/16/02 (1)
- Re: Home recording trends - VCR's dying - John C. - Aussie 14:32:35 08/16/02 (0)
- are you forgetting Tivo? - SamM 08:10:01 08/15/02 (5)
- No, this is what did not catch on with the JVC recorder - John C. - Aussie 15:26:17 08/15/02 (4)
- Re: No, this is what did not catch on with the JVC recorder - SamM 07:55:24 08/16/02 (3)
- So which hard drives have you found the most reliable? - John C. - Aussie 14:41:23 08/16/02 (2)
- Re: So which hard drives have you found the most reliable? - SamM 10:45:20 08/18/02 (1)
- Thanks Sam, I do ... - John C. - Aussie 16:34:45 08/18/02 (0)
- Re: Home recording trends - VCR's dying - phlogiston 02:42:54 08/15/02 (1)
- Re: Home recording trends - VCR's dying - Estes 06:05:48 08/15/02 (0)