Posted by Serial # 19781010 on 10/30/05 08:35

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:17:45 -0400, "Steve" <knoisy_one@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I am transferring many VHS tapes over to DVD and would like to get comments
>on the stand alone recorders that are out. The only one I tried (neighbor's)
>didn't do the job like my computer is doing. It compresses the video too
>much and makes it look horrible (to me). When I copy a 1 hour tape with the
>computer it will fill a single layer DVD and it almost looks like an exact
>image. Do any of the stand alone recorders have this feature?
>
>Thanks...
>-s-
>

My Pioneer 220:

....these are the recording times (bitrates) that can be set to fill up
a single sided G5 disk- directly from the manual:

360mins.
345 mins.
330 mins.
315 mins.
300 mins.
285 mins.
270 mins.
255 mins.
240 mins.
230 mins.
220 mins.
210 mins.
200 mins.
190 mins.
180 mins.
170 mins.
160 mins.
150 mins.
140 mins.
130 mins.
120 mins.
110 mins.
105 mins.
100 mins.
95 mins.
90 mins.
85 mins.
80 mins.
75 mins.
70 mins.
65 mins.
60 mins.

For a total of 32 different recording times between 1hr and 6hrs.

Also it has the ability to setup input filters so you can use either
preset filters or user defined filters

You can set VNR (video noise reduction)
Amount of detail to retain
Black level
Hue
Chroma
and more.

These act at hardware level directly on the input before anything is
recorded. It's very nice for someone like myself who has recorded a
lot of old movies with a lot of flaws in them. Often using the filters
the resulting DVD looks better than the original tapes.

There may be other recorders with even better features but overall for
200 bucks this is hard to beat.

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