Posted by anon on 02/18/06 09:57

On 2006-02-17, the dog from that film you saw
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>> My question is, has anybody seen a dvd-based video recorder which will
>> do mpeg-4 encoding? Strikes me that this would allow a considerable
>> amount of programming to be stored on one disk. A combination of that,
>> and a freeview tuner (and I know that most of the current ones don't
>> transcode freeview) would be a killer product.
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> for the price of HDs it would be cheaper for them to include a bigger hd and
> stick to copying the mpeg2 signal intact - no need for encoding hardware.
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Well yeah, that's true, but the problem with most hard-drive based
systems is that you can't get the recorded program off the drive. I
know that the toppy has a usb interface which will allow you to do
this, but it's a bit slow, and if you want to archive the recordings
then mpeg-4 seems like a good choice from a size/capacity of disks
point of view.

Cheers,

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