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New Sony PVR/DVR and DVD Recorder
i4u writes "Sony announces in Japan a new digital recorder NDR-XR1 equipped with the 80GB hard drive and a DVD recorder.
The unit features a broadband connection to retrieve a programming guide. The system can record up to 90 hours of programming on the 80GB Hard drive.
Recorded shows can be directly burned on DVDs with the built-in DVD writer.
This is the dream machine! Wonder if it will be available on the US market, This baby is poised to 'piss-off' Hollywood. This would be a nice alternative to the ReplayTV box.
The Digital Recorder NDR-XR1 will go on sale April 12th in Japan."
Here is a informative link on using a dvd-writer with your TIVO...
The SONY marketing corporation, hard disk drive (the or less HDD) with the digital recorder ' NDR-XR1 which loads the DVD recorder ' and, 5.1chcDvd foam/home theater system ' NAV-E900 ' of HDD built-in type ' NAV-E600 ' sells the total 3 type as a brand of the foam/home AV gateway equipment which corresponds to broadband network environment.
Both machines are defeated, by various functions due to the regular connection to broadband network and the fact that service is added, offering new AV life style to basic function of the digital recorder and the foam/home theater system.
Type name Desired retail price (classified by tax) Sale day
digital recorder ' NDR-XR1 ' 145,000 Yen April 12 day
foam/home theater system ' NAV-E900 '
foam/home theater system ' NAV-E600 ' 115,000 Yen
84,000 Yen April 26 day
digital recorder ' NDR-XR1 '
The knitting machine is the digital recorder which loads the connected function to broadband network the HDD and the DVD of the 80GB - the RW / - in addition to the R recorder.
Image such as television program maximum approximately 90 hours (the *1) it is possible in the HDD to videotape. As for the image which was videotaped in the HDD, compiling, it is possible to record to the DVD simply. In addition, if you connect to broadband network, " net program guide " empty up-to-date television program information on Internet can be procured. With the adoption of the " net program guide ", the case of program searching and video recording reservation and the program video recording with keyword the comfortable video life such as automatic title input is actualized.
It classifies image of video recording end, every folder in the HDD and marks password and can manage. Furthermore amount used of the HDD, being color classified every folder, has done the device which mass video recording program is easy to manage e.g., it is indicated. The case where in the HDD the DVD is drawn up from image of video recording end, image is divided in chapter, just favorite the scene is gathered and the play list is drawn up. It chooses the background which you like from the midst of the templet for the DVD menu of 30 types which are prepared beforehand, also it can draw up the original DVD which has the menu picture like the DVD software of marketing.
The video deck and the ic.link terminal which were connected to the external input terminal (the *2) taking in to the HDD, it compiles also the DV image of the handy cam which is connected, it can retain the image of the memory which past photographed as the original DVD. In addition, adjusting to the music which is beforehand prepared in the knitting machine, you can enjoy also the still picture which was photographed with the digital still camera of the rhinoceros bar shot and the like the memory stick slot (the *3) with loading, with sliding show.
*1: At the time of SLP mode use (1 title longest 12 hour video recordings is possible.)
*2: The ic.link terminal of the knitting machine is the " DV input terminal ".
*3: We do not correspond to the memory stick PRO.
foam/home theater system ' NAV-E900 ' ' NAV-E600 '
Both machines the HDD of the 80GB are 5.1 ch DVD foam/home theater systems which load the connected function to broadband network. Not only enjoying the image and sound of the DVD software, retaining the music CD * television program * digital photograph picture and the like in the HDD, e.g., it enjoys, you can have enough the various AV lives which center the foam/home theater system.
Choosing necessary function with standard function, and the life style which center " the function " of the foam/home theater system there is an addition function which it can purchase " in " both machines. " Standard " function playback of the DVD/CD, the FM/AM tuner, WEB perusal and the email due to Internet connection, of function acquisition of the CD number data with the Gracenote CDDBR (the *1) consists. In add
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Tivo has a history of supporting reasonable hacks, and as a result the hack forums (such as Tivo Underground) generally support Tivo. Most of the forums strictly forbid discussions that revolve around attempts to copy Tivo content to removable media.
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Sony already makes a DVR built with Tivo technology. I imagine they will still use Tivo technology for a US release of the new product.
Adding a DVD burner is definitely a cool addition.
I'm a Tasty-vore. If it's Tasty, I'll eat it.
"DMR-HS2
Progressive-Scan DVD Video Recorder with 40GB Hard Disk & Time Slip Playback records to DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs
MSRP $999.95 "
Straight from the relevant page of the Panasonic site (which I'm having problems giving a direct link to, sorry).
The drive is only 40Gb in this case, but thats easily enough if you're backing up to DVD regularly.
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Or rather, the product will be crippled to hell by DRM systems to be nearly impossible to use properly.
This has been done before with the NetMD minidisc players, which don't allow to extract the pieces recorded with the microphone.
I wouldn't be surprices, if those burned DVD can only be played back on the same unit, that DVD commercial DVD can't be copied or some other copyright protection idiocy.
Actually, odds are, the Sony unit is a Tivo as well.
It was the Panasonic DMR-HS2, not a Pioneer, if you're still considering it.
The big difference is that the Panasonic product works like an old-fashioned VHS deck and requires you to type recording details in, rather than the Tivo's programme guide method.
So you're not paying a subscription, but you don't get the guide stuff; which is better I'll leave to you.
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Although this does not include a DVD burner
Press release : http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030109/90251_1.html
Info from the Apex web page: http://www.apexdigitalinc.com/images/APEXDVD.PDF
Tivo and ReplayTV have the ability to control your digital cable box and change the channels via either a serial connection or an infrared connection depending on what model tuner you have. I own 3 ReplayTV units and have them connected to Time Warner digital cable boxes and it has been working perfectly for 2 years. Do yourself a favor and buy the PVR of your choice. If you watch any amount of TV you will wonder why you have not owned one all along.
The listed price is 145,000JPY, which equals $1,213..
Nice if you can afford it I suppose. I wonder if there will be restrictions on exporting it to the US.
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Remember also that actors have signed an agreement on the conditions around using their image. If the ad companies didn't shut down the site, they could be in trouble from the actors and their agents.
Ok let's step into relaity.
freevo is the lowest processor/ram hungry of all the free-pvr projects.
cheapest Computer that can do it as good as a Tivo is a Athalon 1800+ with 256 meg of ram. The mobo,processor,fan,case,powersupply in super cheap form (I.E. really crappy and ugly case) is around $400.00 now you need a video card that can handle tv out correctly... $50.00-$100.00 WinTV-D card to do the HDTV you mention $200.00 Pioneer A05 (anything else is utter crap for DVD burning) $250.00 Hard drive $150.00 - $300.00 depending on size/speed/quality.
now how about an IR remote? $30.00 for a ir reciever or build it yourself for $15.00 in parts and a good knowlege of electronics.
$1000.00 is the actual REAL price for a working freevo box done in economy mode. More if you buy a real AV case that looks like a stereo component.. MythTV requires a XP2600+ to do the same job because it requires X and really is no competition for freevo right now.
so you are off by a large amount because you left out most of the hardware needed. and you STILL need to hack together lots of pre-alpha software to get it to work.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
It's essentially a tivo and a DVD player sharing the same box. You can't put tivo'd shows onto DVD, and you can't record DVDs to the tivo. They're two seperate devices for most purposes, though there is an option on the tivo menu to 'play dvd' that's as far as the integration goes.
Tivo no longer subsidizes hardware. Series 1 hardware was subsidized, but Series 2 is not.
"With the Series2, we're out of the subsidy business," Ramsay said.
That's TiVo Chief Executive Mike Ramsay as quoted at news.com
VCD is less than VHS quality. And broadcast NTSC is higher than SVCD. I've played with both, and DVD. DVD has the ability to reciord at higher quality than broadcast NTSC this can be mitigated by lowering the bitrate at which the video is recording.
It is also very untrue that "(almost) any DVD player" can play VCD/SVCD format discs. No one I know owns a DVD player that can play VCDs, yet everyone I know has a DVD player (or a PS2/XBox) that can play DVDs just fine.
I've gone down both roads and DVD is the way to go (until they come out with a new standard and make us buy all of our favorite movies again!).
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It's worth noting that this will not work on Series2 TiVo's (which is all that's been sold for well over a year now). The S2 TiVo's are locked down much tighter (at least with current software) and haven't been hacked completely. Yet. Last I read the hacking was progressing, but it's going to involve replacing the BIOS - in most cases physically by desoldering the old one and soldering in a new one.
You can still get a S1 TiVo on eBay if that's what you want. But you won't get any future software upgrades (S1 are not getting 4.0, due out any day), new features (no HMO - although most (but not all) of its features can be hacked in to one extent or another), and wow are they slow. If you're really, really into hacking the boxes and that's what makes you happy then I'd advise a S1 TiVo. If you just want things to work, get an S2.
AdCritic didn't shutdown due to industry pressure, copyright violation, or anything else like that. It shutdown due to popularity - the bandwidth bill was too damn big and they were losing too much money.
It has since re-opened, but it's now a pay-your-own-way site.
Just search Google for Adcritic and shutdown if you want more info.
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Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifty year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crises shall have been reached and passed.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Lincoln was quoting the Bible, specifically Matthew 12:25.
'And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand'.
But that's a great Costanza quote.
Anything you can do, I can do meta.
I don't know about Linux, but I'm just using the crappy Avermedia software that came with my $50 capture/tuner card and I can record mpeg-2 video on the fly with my AMD Athlon 1.4GHz box using less than 50% of the cpu time under Windows2000. It doesn't have any hardware encoding support so it's all software. I can also playback another movie at the same time I'm recording without a problem. If you can't do this then perhaps you don't have DMA set on your hard drive? Did you check it using hdparm -t? Many times it defaults to PIO mode in which case you'd be using tons of processor time and get only 5MB/sec instead of 45MB/sec. Maybe not your problem, but something to check.
Now, my problem is, the avermedia software sucks rocks and locks up from time to time, misses scheduled recordings, and has no program guide support. It's just a digital VCR not a PVR. I'd LOVE to use the Via Eden boards with a nice silent set-top box style case as a PVR if there was a hardware mpeg encoder that worked with Linux!!