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Author Topic: Digital VCRs Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-25-2006 03:33 AM                     One option you might consider is simply capturing content right into your computer via a video capture card.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 06-25-2006 03:56 PM                        Yes, and I actually have one - the computer I bought 3 years ago came with an inbuilt "media dock" which has S-video and component inputs. The DVR box actually doesn't have component out, but it does have S-Video which I am using right now because that gets rid of the "snow drift" or "water ripple" effect I saw when it was hooked up to the TV via the coax connection. Do you have that same effect? Still, it would be nicer to transfer the files in the digital domain since the quality isn't all that great to begin with, so several more stages of conversion aren't really very desirable.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-25-2006 05:50 PM                     I don't know what you mean by snow drift... I come out of the cable box via S-Video and bring it into a "DV Bridge" which is a small box that converts the analog signal into DV-FireWire Video. I use iMovie to capture it and iDVD to burn it.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 06-25-2006 09:55 PM                        Those are lines that move across the image. I only had it when I used the coax connection. But with S-Video, it's gone, and the image looks much better, although there are still a lot of small artifacts. Really fast action, like a soccer game, is massively broken up. That is aggravated by the LCD TV I have, but the actual digital cable signals are very visibly compressed.  |  IP: Logged

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