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hdtv rules | can a firewire jack be added to a dvd player? can someone give me some info on this. I Here a JVC D-VHS is reconized by WINXP as a recording device. is anybody using this to transfer HD to a hardrive? I would like to use record HD from directv to a d-vhs then edit out comercials and store on hardrive. |
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Derek | I believe Pioneer has a DVD player with firewire. But, that's for audio only. Firewire was supposed to be used as an HDTV interface (Mitsubishi and RCA DO use it) but the interface doesn't have enough bandwidth in th 400Mbps version to pass an uncompress Hi-Def signal. That's why everyone is running to DVI. Leaving the signal compressed would mean that every firewire device would require an MPEG codec (not just a decoder) - that's more money... I briefly had a JVC D-VHS deck. It worked but I also wanted to use it as a data tape backup drive which it couldn't do (Hey, 50 GB is a lot). There are no DirecTV tuners with firewire that I know of so you're going to have to capture the analog picture. There are companies that will retro-fit firewire, though. You could easily get your hands on an ATI Video Wonder or All-in-Wonder PCI or AGP video card. That way you could capture and encode in a sigle pass. Buy a $129 DVD Burner and you can shoot your masterpieces to standard DVDs. Hope this helps. |
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hdtvrules | samsug and zenith i know have dvi outputs, can i hook this to the ati-cards direct and capture in true hdtv or will i get copy protection. i hear you can record hdtv with dishnetwork from the hdtv tuner to a d-vhs through the fire wire. is this true. maybe i need to switch to dish. ESPNHD is coming soon from dish too. can i use the d-vhs to do the codic part and use the computer to do the encoding to the harddrive? if so how? |
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Derek | You cannot us an ATI to record DVI because the DVI on the ATI is output-only just like the Satelite tuner. The only input on the ATI is S-Video and that's not true HD. See this site http://www.arunjain.com/htpc.htm for true HD recorders. Zenith makes a HD hard drive recorder and Dish has one. I think JVC makes a Dish/JVC D-VHS recorder. DirecTV is planning a hard drive recorder as well. |