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britney167	1st Philips DVD Recorder	Lead	[-]
Posts: 4 (11/15/01 20:55:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Read that Philips launched its first DVD rewritable recorder, which is able to record from multiple sources, and is also backward compatible -- it claims that it is compatible with ALL dvd players in the market! I have not played with the machine yet. Does anybody out there have the opportunity to check it out? Is it as good as it claims? Any comments will be great!
Kelric Varchilde	Re: 1st Philips DVD Recorder	#1	[-]
Posts: 2157 (11/15/01 21:00:46) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I have absolutely no clue, but no matter. Welcome to the site and I hope ya stick around. People Who Think They Know Everything Are An Annoyance To Those Of Us Who Do........ My DVD CollectionThis Mass Message Brought To You By: Mass Messages For Mass Seerism (MMFMS)
KenJohnston	Re: 1st Philips DVD Recorder	#2	[-]
Posts: 1694 (11/15/01 21:35:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	This could be interesting if it really records from all sources. My tapes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 are starting to get old, and I'm nervous that some day they'll deteriorate beyond use. If I could easily record them onto DVD, I'd be happy. I'll have to look into this. Thanks for the info, and welcome to the site! Everyone's doing it.
John Jacobsen	Re: 1st Philips DVD Recorder	#3	[-]
Posts: 2235 (11/15/01 22:03:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	First of all, it records only in a single layer mode. So, you do not get the full 9.4 GB that you would on a typical Hollywood dual layer DVD movie, you would just get 4.7 GB. So, don't plan on renting your favorite DVDs and copying them, it ain't happening. First of all, you can't copy DVDs, they have some serious copy protection scheme. It is possible with a PC and some intense software, I don't see this happening on a single piece of hardware. It sounds like a great thing for taping that episode of 'Survivor' that you don't want to miss and recording your home movies to DVD, that is about it. Also, how do you make menus? If you can't make custom menus with slick graphics I think you willl lose the impact when making that special family Christmas DVD for the relatives. I have a DVD-R drive on my Mac and the media costs $10.00 a shot, what does a DVD-RW cost? I am sure it is more or close to ten bucks, a far cry from $2.00 blank videotapes that are just fine for recording network shows. We are close to this being mainstream, but the time is not just yet here... IMO View my DVD Collection
KenJohnston	Re: 1st Philips DVD Recorder	#4	[-]
Posts: 1694 (11/15/01 22:28:28) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	But videotapes deteriorate in picture and sound quality the more you record over them. I'm assuming that you could record over a DVD-RW unlimited times without any loss in quality. In other words, videotapes may be cheaper in the short run, but if you're recording shows off of TV and then recording over them, then DVD-RW would be cheaper in the long run, since you don't need to replace them. In addition, I believe the shelf life of a video casette is somewhere around fifteen years. This problem does not exist with DVDs, so if you want to save those home movies forever, it's worth the additional dough to get them on DVD. Finally, if this technology takes off, I think there will be a huge drop in the prices of the media. I don't think they'll get as cheap as CD-Rs, but they'll be much cheaper once there is increased demand to justify increased production and the efficiencies that increased production would create. [edit]spelling[/edit] Everyone's doing it.
britney167	Re: 1st Philips DVD Recorder	#5	[-]
Posts: 4 (11/15/01 22:41:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks guys for your feedback. For your info, I found the site from Philips that talks about the new recorder: www.dvdrw.philips.com Have not seen the physical set yet. Will go looking for it this weekend.
John Jacobsen	Re: 1st Philips DVD Recorder	#6	[-]
Posts: 2235 (11/16/01 05:40:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	How do you make menus? I really would like to know this. What's the price point of this machine? Do you really need to put the latest episode of LAW AND ORDER on a DVD? What really makes sense to me and the future of recording Television shows is the harddrive video recorder decks (TIVO). View my DVD Collection
Napoleon	Re: 1st Philips DVD Recorder	#7	[-]
Posts: 207 (11/16/01 11:06:22) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've had some very short experiences with the thing from here in the store. It sold too fast for us to much testing with it. (we only ordered one, we didn't really expect any demand really). AFAIK there are some basic editing facilities. Menus so far, we have found to be limited to scene selection index pictures, nothing else as far as we could find. The thing retailed at a whopping $1800 and we're selling the media for $19,99 The DVD+RW discs can hold 60 minutes of dvd-quality picture, or 120 minutes of standard picture quality (didn't see that in action, so I don't know how it looks) You can record from a tv-signal, satellite decoder, camera, anything, but of course, the picture quality will never be better than the source's quality. Personally, I and the rest of the sales guys here (who know far more from this sort of stuff than me) all agree that TiVo sounds like the thing for the future. Stupid thing is, the dutch cable channels refuse to add the data tivo needs to their signal So, TiVo hasn't even been released in Holland yet. Anyway, like almost all first-generation hardware, this thing is over-priced and not very useful, IMHO. Oh, and John was right...most dvd's have some REALLY hefty copy protection, so copying dvd's is gonna be pretty impossible on this thing. My DVD Collection
John Jacobsen	Re: 1st Philips DVD Recorder	#8	[-]
Posts: 2235 (11/16/01 12:03:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I think what makes the most sense is the DVD-Burner for the computer. You can make custom menus and all sorts of cool stuff, it is awesome! I love mine and find it very useful with Apples software. And, it is awesome for backing up data, 4.7 GB!! I think this will be the future for converting home movies to DVD. Like you said Napoleon, TiVo (or something likei it) is gonna be the future for recording Television shows. View my DVD Collection

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