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<blockquote data-quote="bifferos" data-source="post: 538681" data-attributes="member: 196106"><p>Unfortunately, these are films no longer available (on DVD or VHS), and also analogue home recordings before I got a camcorder with firewire, otherwise I'd do this on the PC.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah.. I deliberately left that out :-). So long as I can play back on a PC (now) I believe I am probably OK for the future, what with virtual machines and so on. MPEG2, DivX, xvid, SWF or whatever would be fine. I'd like to avoid archiving in MJPEG, because that probably would take a huge amount of space though.</p><p></p><p>Or did you mean tv standards? I only need PAL input.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Right. I've also done this a few times, but the quality of my DVD recorder is not up to much, also it's a pain having to mess about with DVD-R, and then maybe needing to re-do recordings if you happen to stumble on poor media (I know I'm a cheapskate and order only cheap DVDs so it's probably my fault).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Dreambox 600 PVR looks nice, but would that give me all the channels a Sky box has? (Assuming I don't have a decoding card).</p><p></p><p>thanks,</p><p>biff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bifferos, post: 538681, member: 196106"] Unfortunately, these are films no longer available (on DVD or VHS), and also analogue home recordings before I got a camcorder with firewire, otherwise I'd do this on the PC. Yeah.. I deliberately left that out :-). So long as I can play back on a PC (now) I believe I am probably OK for the future, what with virtual machines and so on. MPEG2, DivX, xvid, SWF or whatever would be fine. I'd like to avoid archiving in MJPEG, because that probably would take a huge amount of space though. Or did you mean tv standards? I only need PAL input. Right. I've also done this a few times, but the quality of my DVD recorder is not up to much, also it's a pain having to mess about with DVD-R, and then maybe needing to re-do recordings if you happen to stumble on poor media (I know I'm a cheapskate and order only cheap DVDs so it's probably my fault). The Dreambox 600 PVR looks nice, but would that give me all the channels a Sky box has? (Assuming I don't have a decoding card). thanks, biff. [/QUOTE]
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