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Posted by Bill's News on 09/26/85 11:57
Bob wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:16:45 -0700, "Bill's News"
> <BillsNews@pcmagic.net> wrote:
>
>> Always a good place to check for desired player features:
>> http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers
>
> Are there any decent affordable DVD recorders that have a hard disk,
> DivX and XviD compatable, two TV encoders so you can record two TV
> shows at the same time off of a regular antenna, time slip
> capability,
> and Ethernet so you can mount the HD on your LAN? No game boxes.
Affordable for whom? The Hauppauge 500 PCI for MCE fits the bill at
the low end of current prices. I've read that some other cards can be
installed in multiples. There are quite a few stand alone devices
listed at the site referenced, but dual tuner is not yet an option on
the page, so I'll leave that for others to wade through. Rather than
Ethernet, which is not bad per se, I prefer USB2 NTFS formatted hard
drives to be supported. Hot-swapping these units places all of your
recordings onto the PC with absolutely no overhead on either the PC or
the recorder. I recently picked up a 600 gB LaCie USB2 for something
like US$260. One drawback of this unit though is that it doesn't idle
with disuse as some others do.
Maybe the folks at videohelp will add the multi-tuner checkbox to the
search in the future.
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