[MacDV] Recording TV to Mac

[Kunga]

 From my point of view, this is a very shortsighted way to record TV.  
Who says we want to burn DVDs of every BLOATED FUZZY MPEG-2 file  
coming down the pike? From my point of view, if you don't buy a DivX  
compatible HD-DVD Player you are wasting your money.

<http://www.divx.com/hardware/?src=toptab_hardware_from_/divx/player/ 
index.php>

and

<http://www.divx.com/hardware/browse.php?c=7>

The Tiger version of DivX is right around the corner. Meanwhile there  
are a ton of 350 MB (1 commercials are already edited out hour=43  
minutes) HDTV Dolby Digital 5.1 shows on the web already encoded and  
ready for playing. The stuff looks better than SD DirecTV digital  
feeds on any old Mac display. I can fit 12 episodes of CSI in HD on  
one single layer 4.4 GB DVD-R disc. That's 8 hours of High Definition  
TV programming on a 15¢ DVD-R disc. I can put all of Quinten  
Tarentino's CSI Masterpiece "Grave Danger" on a 700 MB CD-R.

<http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/?521cmp=endivxmacen>

You guys and girls are stuck in the stone age. Get with the  
technological developments of the day please.

Now please don't mistake my passion for insult. That is not my  
intention. I'm just very excited about this stuff I have only  
recently discovered myself. OK? No harm intended.

k

On May 28, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Don Hinkle wrote:

> So, let me ask questions to expose my ignorance:
> this is different than a cable tv recorder, that records on a hard  
> disk.
> With this, I could connect to my TV/cable and, say, tell it to  
> record the Monk rerun at 2 a.m. and it would do it, placing the  
> show on a DVD, which I could then share with others or feed into my  
> Mac for editing?
> How many shows can it record on its own before I'd have to slide in  
> a new DVD?
> thanks...