Posted by T Shadow on 01/03/07 20:02

"- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123> wrote in message
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> "Jack Yazel" <jyazel@ds.net> wrote in message
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> > On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 10:40:54 -0500, "- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>On these stand-alone ( non-PC ) recorders ... The ones I've seen have
> >>a
> >>button that you press and it copies the VHS to DVD. What do I do when
> >>I
> >>have a 6 hr VHS and it won't fit onto DVD ? would it "fail" or would
> >>it
> >>record only 4 hrs ( or whatever fits) then close the DVD so that at
> >>least the first 4 hrs is usable ? How to capture that last 2 hrs ? Any
> >>6
> >>hr DVD media out there yet ?
> >>
> >>I also have a lot of camcorder ( VHS-C ) video. Rather than buying
> >>full
> >>size 4 hr DVDs , could I buy physically smaller DVD's for less money ?
> >>( do they exist ?) The point in asking is this is a LOT of family
> >>video
> >>( boxes full) that are maybe 20-30 minutes long and I'm wondering if
> >>cheaper /easier to store the smaller dvd's since even one the "full
> >>sized 4 hr DVD'd" it's still only gonna store only one vhs tape when I
> >>hit the VCR =>DVD "record button". So it'll record 20 minutes then
> >>"waste" the rest of the DVD.
> >>
> >>Bobb
> > =================================
> >
> > I record a lot of 6-hour VHS and 6-hour DVD (-R and -RW).
> >
> > The quality of both depends on the viewer. I can't see any difference
> > between
> > the TV, VHS and DVD.
> >
> > Test a DVD recorder and decide for yourself.
> >
> > Jack
>
> I will thanks. I was asking first though, since we have a library of
> 300+ homemade VHS tapes ( a lot are 4-6 hrs each) and if only 2hrs per
> DVD - aside from the time/effort - that's 900+ blank DVD's to buy ! So
> that would be a factor also into the decision to do them all too - so
> maybe only old footage of the kids ??
> One other thing ... DVD +R and -R - any recommendations/preferences or
> is that still a box of worms we'd rather not get into here ?
>

2HRS is at full resolution. Half resolution 352X480 is good for 4HRS. This
is adequate for SLP VHS. A 6HR tape is going to have even less quality. The
2&4 hour settings are MPG2. The DVD spec allows for standard mpg which
allows smaller resolutions and heavier compression.This will probably be
adequate quality for a 6HR tape. Home movies should be captured to
uncompressed AVI then encoded to the compressed format after editing. Have
no idea if boxes can do this but my computer can.
digitalfaq.com has all the info needed.

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