Re: Recording analog TV shows
- From: marnix_moed <marnixmoed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:41:01 -0800
Hey Jaime,
thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately, I am working with a analog signal, so I do not know if it
will work with the way you desribe it. I do have DVB (digital video), but the
decoder will not be near the computer.
I am interested in you mentioning that you can allways shrink the video
file. Is this very easy with media center, just like shrinking the size of a
photo?
Because in the past I have heard people needing to use special video editing
programs that required enormous amount of hard disk space.
If you choose the highest setting, how large is a 1 hour show approximately?
Grt,
Wing
"Jaime" wrote:
Yes, on all accounts..
Assuming you have everything set up correctly, Media Center is just like
Tivo, you go through the guide, find the program and click Record (much
easier than a VCR). you can record single show or series with various
options (all occurrences, first run, etc.). If you have more than one tuner,
you can record more than one show at a time.
There are several quality setting for recording, you would need to try them
to see what you find acceptable. Personally, I record everything at the best
setting as hard drive space is cheap; I can always shrink the program, but I
can't make it better at a later time.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida
"marnix_moed" <marnixmoed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thx Chuck,
Can you you tell me a little bit more about the recording capabilities of
the Windows vista media center.
I would like to know if it has the capabilty to set up multiple timers.
With
that I mean that media center will record multiple pre-programmed TV
shows
on various dates and times.
For example, I want simultaneously that media center will record TV show 1
tomorrow at 20:00, TV show B next week at 16:00, TV show 3 everyday at
18:00
and TV show 4 every monday at 15:00.
Please not that these are all on different channels. Can media center cope
with this, or is it pretty "dumb" that I have to manual set the time,
channel, and press manually on record when a show begins.
I can do all this programming simply with my VCR, and would like to know
if
media center can do this as well.
Also, I would like to ask if in media center I can set in which quality
and
size I want a TV show to be recorded in. If possible I want an 1 hour show
to
be approximaltey be around 500MB. And would the quality be comparable with
the quality of a videotape?
Grt,
m
"Chuck" wrote:
If you are planning on recording TV programs to your computer I use a
great
Free program that removes commercials checkout lifextender.com. I have a
Gateway desktop w/ TV card &3g ram 400 gb hard drive w/ Vista ultimate
(Windows media center)
I also have an external hard drive to store the programs on (500GB)
Chuck
"marnix_moed" <marnixmoed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey,
I am at the point of buying a new Windows Vista desktop computer, but
do
not
know what kind of. It must be well at mulit tasking. With that I mean
that
I
will have several programmes/windows simultaneously running and switch
between them. For example download music/small films, running MS Word,
Windows Explorer, and several Internet windows.
Besides that I want to record TV programs to watch on a suitable
moment,
without the hassle of videotapes. It is a lot of work to categorize
everything.
I was thinking of 2 options: 1 buy a powerful computer and record TV
shows
on it’s hard disk/drive (HD) or 2 buy a stand alone HD-video recorder
to
record TV shows and a moderate computer for the other multi tasks.
I do not have any experience yet with recording or editing TV
shows/video
on
a computer. What would you recommend to do?
Buy a powerful computer which can record TV shows and everything else?
If
so, what kind of specifications would you choose then? Do I need a
powerful
video card for compressing/conversion the recorded TV show to a smaller
size
(500MB per hour recording)? How large does the hard disk has be? I have
now
something of 600 hours TV shows on videotapes. In future I think the
amount
will be still the same. I have heard that video conversion requires a
lot
of
memory. With video conversion I mean that I want to reduce a recorded
TV
show
to a size of around 500MB per 1 hour video. I see sometimes films of
approximately 2 hours which fit on 700MB cd’s. Or can I set the size
before
recording?
Or would you rather choose to buy a stand alone HD-video recorder for
recording the TV shows and an average computer for the other tasks? It
is
then important that the HD recorder has a USB connection to transfer
recorded
TV shows to my laptop. This for 2 reasons. First is that the recording
capacity is often limited of this kind of apparatus and I want be able
store
it on separate HD's, since I have around 600 hours of video content.
And
secondly is that I want be able to play the TV shows on my laptop on
any
computer in the house. This way I can let the HD recorder record
something
and simultaneously watch an earlier recorded program on any TV in the
house
through my laptop.
I have seen nice looking stand alone HD video recorders from brands
like
Sony and Philips, but they don’t have an USB connection. I have seen
external
stand alone hard disk with multi media playback, but I do not know any
that
can also record TV shows.
I hope anyone can give me some advice.
Grt,
M
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