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I record alot of movies from digital cable. My 8 year old sony needs to be retired. I have seen Toshiba and Mitsu s-vhs-et for around $160 bucks. Can anyone give an opinion whether to purchase one or wait till the DVD-R come out in August. Understanding that until they are fully debugged and USABLE, it will be 6months to a year..
I do not own a DVD but have 2 HDTV's. Does one need both vcr and dvd? Or scrap the vhs and purchase dvd's and a player to be suggested later?P.S. the industry suggests that VHS will be obsolute in around 5 years. Is it possible they know something about the required time to debug the DVD-R's???????
Thanks for any opinions.Mitch
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We have two s-VHS machines but rarely bother recording with S-video tape as it is more expensive and the broadcast quality, even on digital satellite, rarely has software quality justifying that expense. It also means S-vhs tapes are not compatible with the general run of other recorders.Against that, the electronics in S recorders are generally superior to the rest and IMO this justifiees their added cost AND does give the option of making the better tape if the broadcast quality justifies it.
I have heard mixed reports about JVC reliability and have settled on National/Technics recorders. They are not perfect but we have had a good run out of them and use them daily for time shifting, avoiding advertisements and short circuiting waste of time on programs which end up unappealing.
The future for temporary recording could lie with hard drives as the prices of them keeps falling and their capacity continues to rise. However it will be interesting to see how the DVD-R units evolve.
Interesting times
John
Thanks for the info. I am sure the first DVD-r will be plagued w/ bugs as are all software products in Version 1.0. Further upgrades (bug fixes) as systems people call them, will be fairly clean and usable.
Mitch
Someone pointed this stuff out to me the other day. It is a CD video recorder.
http://www.goterapin.com--db
After reviewing their product, yes, it's an easy way to get stuff onto a CD and without a computer but, there are better ones for the money. Dazzle has a unit at the same price that can do 10 times more things than their video CD recorder. It's even packed with the full-version, upgradeable, Adobe Premier 6. It also allows you to capture in DV, then edit your video and then convert to MPEG-1 or 2 for VCDs.=Joe=
Ineresting toy, any feedback?
Mitch
...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.
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
Let's see buy one DVD-R for $1600 (OK, I may be overstating ;-) or 10 S-VHS machines? DVD-R is currently expensive and hard to find not to mention the cost of the blanks. I would go with a vcr simply because of price and wait two years before considering a DVD-R so the price comes down some.
Math calculations are sound.....
Has anyone done research on the best brand for s-vhs???Thank,
Mitch
I recently replaced my old mitsubishi u67 svhs.
after a few different brands jvc,panasonic pioneer
i came to the conclusion that mitsubishi imho still
has a superior picture,and got a hsu776
What I have seen, I would say JVC and Toshiba. But models vary alot every year, so what was correct one year could be different next year.
3M made IMO, great tape, now it is not made anymore. Over countless productions, I think maybe one dropout. Now I am useing Maxell 126BQ, no dropout problems, tracks well because of the backcoating. However I don't know what long term storage is going to be like because of the backcoating, the layer sticking thing. The bias is right on Panasonic, and JVC machines, unlike Sony, Fuji, which seem to be optimum biased, which gives great frequency response, but is more prone to dropouts.--db
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