Recording TV on Liteon, Philips, or Sony? Which DVD recorder is best?
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I think LSI is best for recording directly from TV.!? |
LiteOn DVD recorders
Regarding tape transfer, the "no filtering" doesn't just mean the DVD version will not be better, but it generally means the DVD made on that recorder will look worse than the original tape did! These machines poorly handle noisy tapes (VHS, Video8, etc), and will create blocky and crappy DVDs that really are not enjoyably watchable. The LSI Logic chipset is best with old VHS tapes. It does work fine for off-air broadcast recording, but all existing LSI Logic chipset models are using analog-only tuners, and recording in 4x3 aspect ratio. For DTV compatible recorders, with 16x9 options, you'll need one of the new Philips/Magnavox (or Sony) models. |
LS thanks the answer. I live in europe
How about these philips dvd recorder? In Europe's DVB-T. Only these have philips dvb-t.:( 1)DVDR5500 2)DVDR5520H Are from 2007, but they are different from Philips USA. |
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LP is pushed to 4 hours at 720x576. Wrong resolution for VHS:mad: This is a lg rh388 chipset MAGNUM Attachment 2475 |
I've never heard of a Magnum re-brand/rebadge of an LSI Domino chipset! Interesting.
What you have to always remember is this: While the LSI Logic DMN chipsets are stellar quality, that only refers to their potential and under ideal usage conditions. Companies can, and do, choose the wrong settings. There was this ridiculous notion some years ago that long-play DVDs needed "more detail", but somehow overlooked the fact that such a thin bitrate would yield ugly/blocky video quality. You simply cannot record consumer-source video at 720x480 in sub-4Mbps bitrates, using realtime MPEG compression. While LSI is good, it's not a miracle worker. You have to give it something to work with. A lot of recorders are designed to be used as "SP mode" (fake 2-hour terminology in the digital realm, borrowed from NTSC VHS), and nothing else. Other modes are simply SP mode with more or less bitrate. Nothing has been optimized. Panasonic was a chronic offender here, both with it's own chips (WORST QUALITY EVER!), as well as the later LSI based models. Even the LiteOn wasn't using LSI at peak performance, because it was CVBR encoding. A number of "no-name" brands even used CBR, which was simply atrocious. I don't think the LSI chipsets were designed with CBR usage intended, based on testing. ## Zoran made gorgeous chipsets, too. Look at select RCA models. But no VHS clean-up, best used for clean off-air TV recording. |
Kmedia I live in europe. LG is still producing dvdr with DVB-T .. I think it's the only one to mount LSI chip set, but with LP in 4 hours .. To register go on television got a Philips DVDR 5500 :)with DVB-T. It has the same NTSC recording speed of 3537: HQ, SP, SPP, etc. ..1-2-2,5-3 hours.
This is without a hdd recorder. 1) I have an intel atom netbook, Aspire One, Windows Xp. Can I use Womble to cut advertising (TV commercials)? 2) Should I buy a usb external burner |
For anybody else following the conversation, I've answered the above two questions here in dedicated threads:
- http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/medi...-recorder.html - http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...-mpeg-vcr.html Note: Remember to keep unrelated topics in separate posts. Only the workflows area should have mixed-content threads, because it's going over the overall workflow logistics. Correct, Europe is DVB-T, which is a nice MPEG-2/MPEG-4 based transmission and video format. It's actually more than just Europe, too! A lot of Africa and the Middle East use the same video system. North America and Japan are the worldwide oddballs, when it comes to video formats and transmission systems. Take care. :) |
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