Posted by RL on 05/31/06 22:34

No, my Samsung DVD recorder does not have a hard drive.

So can I take it from your comment that most or all DVD recorders that
do not have a hard drive could not be expected to keep up with the
video stream, and therefore could not be expected to produce all
closed captions that are visible on TV directly?

Robert Lawrence

On Wed, 31 May 2006 16:05:20 -0500, Mike Berger <berger@shout.net>
wrote:

>You're not recording every frame. The Samsung recorder
>probably doesn't keep up with the video stream in real time.
>This model doesn't have a hard disk for a buffer, I'll bet.
>
>RL wrote:
>> I recently purchased a Samsung DVD-R135 DVD recorder.
>>
>> When I record a program from TV on a DVD-RW disc and then play it back
>> (with my TV set to display closed captions), the closed captions
>> generally display OK, but I notice that occasionally a word or phrase
>> is missing from the captions.
>...
>> If anyone has any idea what might be causing this problem, I would
>> appreciate hearing from them.


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