Leslie A Rhorer
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Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:04 am Post subject:
Re: WHat can Tivo DVDR's do while recording DVD's? |
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"Matt Ackeret" <mattack@vax.hanford.org> wrote in message
news:cmuh92$cgn$4@news.apple.com...
| Quote: | In article <Qjgkd.45873$tL5.26252@fe2.texas.rr.com>,
Leslie A Rhorer <lrhorer@satx.rr.com> wrote:
I haven't looked specifically at the Humax recorder, but when I loked
at
a couple of other TiVo / DVD recorders, their features lacked far too much
for me to consider buying them. Can anyone tell me if the Humax or any
other TiVo / DVD recorder has overcome the following limitations?
1. Inability to control output to the DVD burner.
If you mean you can't edit recordings, that is true of all Tivo/DVD burner
combinations so far. I'd love to pay for the Tivo interface on a DVD
recorder,
but consider this a necessary feature, since one of the things I want to
record to DVD is ~5 minute musical performances from talk shows. I'll use
a third party hard drive/dvd recorder instead, unfortunately. (As I found
out yesterday, one of 'ems down to $350 at buy.com.)
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Yes, but then one has the analog - digital - analog - digital conversion
with two independant compressions and the attendant extra noise and
artifacts.
| Quote: | I'd also appreciate being able to record shows to DVD in separate
sessions,
which you also can't do on these. This is somewhat less important, since
you can just keep the stuff on the hard drive until you save up a DVD's
worth. (The third party recorders can do this though.) Technically, this
means that the Tivo/DVD recorders "finalize" the DVD after recording.
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Ah! That's what I was thinking about. It's only less ijmportant of one
does not have multiple series under construction at one time. I am right
now in the process of recording three different series. Keeping all the
episodes (at highest quality, at that) of all three series on teh TiVo would
fill it up in a hurry.
| Quote: | 3. Lack of batch programming which would allow the user to send
multiple
unattended recordings to the DVD.
You definitely can do this (as another person replied too).
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I meant to think of multiple batches, but I had sijmple batches stuck in
my mind.
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