Re: VideoRedo

Yes,.. it is stock. An HP m7250n I bought in Jan 06. I have added a
few things to it. MSOffice, Roboform, etc. I have also installed and
unistalled several programs in my quest to get Recorded TV to a DVD+RW.
(crunchie, shrink it, dvr edit, etc.) Nothing works very well so far.


What I have been using is the Sonic package that came with it,
MyDVDPlus. I use a Sima box between the cable box and the m7250n to
scrape off the anti-copy protection, then Sonic to edit the TV show,
and burn the DVD+RW. It works, but it takes hours to burn a 1 hr show,
and I don't like the editing as much as I did the VideoReDo when it
worked those few times.

Using MCE's "Create a DVD" function works sometimes but there is so
little control over what you can do. Your only option is to try what
you want, and then get a yes or no answer from MCE,... usually "no."
It won't let you see what is on a DVD, and you always have to erase the
disc before you record to it.

My crummy little Cyberhome DVD recorder ($78 at WalMart) lets you
choose all kinds of qualities (what we used to call speeds), let's you
see what is on the disc, and if what you want to do will fit. It gives
you all kinds options that MCE doesn't have.

I don't have any ethical problems with scraping off the anti-copy
protection, because all I am doing is timeshifting. I make no copies
for anyone else, and I rarely keep anything I record after I watch it.
All I really care about doing is recording something on the m7250n,
burning it on to a DVD+RW, and watching it downstairs on the big TV.

I wonder if I could use MyDVDPlus to convert the .dvr-ms files to an
..mpeg or something, move it to a shared folder, plug the big TV into
the notebook on the wireless network, and have the notebook play the
file using Windows Media Player or Quicktime or Real Player or
something like that. Then I wouldn't have to burn a DVD at all -- just
watch the file (on the notebook with the big TV) while it is sitting in
the shared folder on the m7250n.

Why wouldn't this work?

Maybe this should be in another thread.

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