pass through on a TRV-900?

[Derek Roff]

Will the TRV-900 do video pass through?  I think it depends on the 
TRV-900.  This discussion came around sometime back.  I checked the 
Sony web site at that time, and it clearly said that the TRV-900 
would do pass through.  And a list member reported that his would. 
However, the one that I have used does not.

My guess is that Sony added the pass through feature at some point, 
without changing the model number.  So older TRV-900 models can't do 
pass through, but those manufactured shortly before the TRV-950 came 
out can do pass through.  I haven't done it, but that's the info that 
I have found.

Derek

--On Friday, February 7, 2003 2:42 PM -0800 Macintosh Digital Video 
List <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:

> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:43  PM, Erica Sadun wrote:
>
>> At 12:18 PM -0800 2/7/03, Thubten Kunga wrote:
>>> Looks like iMovie won't import anything but tape. I hooked up the
>>> DVD  player to my TRV-900 and the iMovie 3 sees there is "Camera
>>> No Tape"  attached. Import ... is grey in the file menu and the
>>> attached image  is not showing via FireWire. Does this camera not
>>> pass through  signal? I thought it did. Maybe not. At any rate
>>> iMovie 3 is behaving  as if a taped recording is the only way in.
>>> I have a stand alone Sony  transcoder. I'll have to see if that
>>> will work next.
>>>
>>> k
>>
>> I vaguely remember that the 900 doesn't do pass-through.
>> Does anyone else know for sure?
>>
>> -- Erica, still smarting from your earlier post



Derek Roff
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