Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 13:05:59 CST 2005
Hi Arthur, PC Magazine just ran an article on using your PC DVD burner to burn your VCR Tape based content to DVD. You would be doing a similar process from the Rogers hard drive recorder. Have a look here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1892657,00.asp There is a nice diagram on the second page of that artical "Hardware" that shows how it all fits together. Gary On 12/28/05, Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com> wrote: > I subscribe to an outfit called Rogers. I have a box somewhat like a TIVO > but less intelligent, I think. It can store about 45-50 hours of programs, > and some of the diagrams in the manual indicate how to record captured > programs to VCR (which is about as useful as recording them to 8-track or > BetaMax). The whole 45 hours is almost full and I want to burn said captures > to DVD. None of the diagrams in the manual indicate how to connect a DVD > burner to this box (Scientific Atlanta 8300). There are standard RCA outs > but I am under the impression that I will lose lots of quality going this > route. I could be wrong. > The local store has a VCR/DVD recorder and the guy there assures me that I > can burn a DVD from the Scientific Atlanta box to DVD, but with the > following proviso. I must select a saved item, then play it and capture it > from the play. No reason to doubt this... just that I do NOT want to waste > time figuring this out. The VCR/DVD unit is stereo, and so is my TV, and so > is the Scientific box. Since I haven't yet purchased the VCR/DVD unit, I > cannot describe its back end. It seems entirely pointless to me to purchase > a combo unit; I do have a collection of VCRs but so what? I already have a > (mono) VCR player, and those VCRs that I do have and treasure I will happily > rent their DVD equivalents and burn them. But I have about 40 hours of stuff > on the Scientific Atlanta box that I DO want to save to DVD. > Has anyone achieved this? I have three DVD burners already, installed in > computers that are about 20 feet from the Scientific Atlanta box. Do I need > to purchase another one to live right beside the TV, or could I get a > 25-foot wire and pipe the output to one of my PC burners? > (Aside: everything I want to burn comes from one creator, a certain Chris > Haddock, who is IMO the best thing that ever happened to CBC drama. If CBC > would only create some DVDs I would happily buy them and be done with it, > but for some idiotic reason CBC has not done so... so I am stuck with making > my own. I have no intention to violate copyrights, mass produce them, etc. I > just want to watch them repeatedly.) > So, what do I need to buy to achieve this? > TIA, > Arthur > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com