[MacDV] Re: Pioneer DVR 3100S: what have I got here?

[Peter Tattersall]

The quality is variable - i.e., you can set it up the way you want, 
with longer record times offsetting lower quality recordings. A 2 hr 
recording is quite acceptable - to my eye it's about as good as a 
regular commercial DVD. The standard settings on my unit go to about 6 
hours, but I haven't tried that low a quality yet. I have several old 
LD recordings which I'm transferring to DVD, and apart from a blue blip 
when I turn over a double-sided disk there is no apparent degradation 
of the video (actually since the LD is of lower quality than the 
potential of the DVD I don't expect quality losses in going from LD to 
DVD). Multiple episodes are no problem. The current prices are 
comparable to those of DVD players a few years back, and I'd anticipate 
a drop to a couple of hundred or less in three or four more years.

Menuing capability is minimal. Does anyone know of any way to take an 
existing DVD, copy it to a hard drive, and then generate a new menu for 
it before writing it to a new DVD?

On 16-Dec-03, at 10:05 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>> The issue with stand alones like this is that they only handle menus 
>> in a
>> limited fashion. You may very well be able to output some project via 
>> DV
>
> Out of curiousity, how good is the video quality on these units?  
> Also, with
> the DVD-R blanks can you record multiple episodes at different times, 
> or just
> one?  They're dropping down in price to the point that they might be
> something interesting to pick up.
>
> 			Zane
>
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