does anyone know howor the best way to move things i have recorded with my cable box DVR to my TR2 or s150?  how can i do this?

THANKS!!

Silly Wabbitt

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/viewtopic.php?t=2172&highlight;=

thanks for trying to help but this thread doesnt answer my question.  it is talking about getting a dvd to the tr.

i am trying to figrue out how to get my tivo recordings to my tr?

how would one do this easily?

is it possible?

THANKS!

[quote author=“sillyrabbitt123”]thanks for trying to help but this thread doesnt answer my question.  it is talking about getting a dvd to the tr.

i am trying to figrue out how to get my tivo recordings to my tr?

how would one do this easily?

is it possible?

THANKS!

Sorry, thought your external redcorder might make DVD’s…

Given no other information, I’ll assume the video coming out of the recorder is standard video or S-video.

For the TR you’ll need a USB or Firewire video capture device. Some Mini-DVD camcorders will accept video input and output real-time DV through the firewire cable. Standalone outboard devices will either convert to DV or raw video that can be used by capture software on the TR. I haven’t dug to deeply in this area as my DV camera supports the former. There may be units that do real-time MPG encoding. Anything decent would be pricey.

That said, you’ll want an external drive, preferably a fast firewire unit. DV video takes a huge amount of storage, raw video even compressed with a lossless codec like huffyuv takes obscene amounts. Some programs offer real-time MPEG encoding. While this will save disk space, quality usually suffers. Given that the source is plain old TV, quality may not matter much.

Once you’ve got the video in the TR you edit, author and burn or watch it and delete it when you need the space.

Jiggy likes the Nero software that came with his new burner. http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/viewtopic.php?t=2163

There’s a range of options from quick and dirty to polished and complex. Video quality can range from poor to stunning (limited by the source).

Again, I’ll refer you to http://videohelp.com/

for one thanks for the help!  i am just getting a little confused.  basically i need a to buy a device to get the video from the cable box to the tr?  which should i get?  which are good?

thanks!

[quote author=“sillyrabbitt123”]for one thanks for the help!  i am just getting a little confused.  basically i need a to buy a device to get the video from the cable box to the tr?  which should i get?  which are good?

thanks!

It is confusing. That’s why I gave you the link. Just as TR World is my source of TR related information. Videohelp is where I go to see what others think of particular hardware and software. The tutorials range from excellent to fair, but by reading a few you get a clue as to what is going on. Granted, you’ll find idiots that hate the best hardware and software because they’re too lazy to figure them out and others who love such-and-such because the ease of use balances out the relatively poor end result. The good news is that every generation of software gets easier and better.

Before I ran out and bought a lot of hardware, I’d really think through what I want to do now and what I might realistically want to do in the near future. Would the money spent on a external video capture device be better spent towards a DV-camcorder with DV pass-through? How big of an external drive? I might consider a moderate sized super-fast firewire drive for video and a USB or slower (cheaper) large drive for archive and general TR use. But that’s me. If money is no object, well…

shopping for electronics can become complex..

Indeed.

Worth the effort IMHO. The only purchases I’ve ever regreted were the ones I made without learning a bit.

[quote author=“sillyrabbitt123”]does anyone know howor the best way to move things i have recorded with my cable box DVR to my TR2 or s150?  how can i do this?

THANKS!!

Silly Wabbitt

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