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rob4653a
11-02-2003, 10:51 AM
Any news of when equipment manufacturers (like Sony) are going to offer DVRs with High Def capabilities? I heard a rumor about Tivo making a box with HD coming out in January.
Also, I'm having trouble researching the details behind a hardware component that ultimately will be a Directv HD receiver, with Tivo service and with home network connection (via ethernet). Any such device on the way soon?
I need to add two features to my current home theater:
(1) Tivo
(2) a second Directv receiver
There's the current Directv/Tivo offer for $99, but I'd rather wait if I can meet those two needs with a single component, have it be HDTV, and have a network connection in to it.
Thanks
paulszpet
11-02-2003, 12:53 PM
Chances are you will not get any type of digital recording/playback equipment until Jack Valenti graciously decides that we are worthy of it (which is never if he has his way)
If you are not familiar with Jack Valenti, he is the man who apparently speaks for all the movie studios in regard to copyright infringment/piracy. He is a very high paid lobyist in Washington and has a lot of clout with the politicians. He was a major force in the Disney/Universal vs Sony Betamax case back in the seventies when Hollywood was kicking and screeming about the introduction of the Video Tape Recorder for consumers. Fortunately, he did not win at that time or you wouldn't even have a VCR. He will do (and is doing) all in his power to see that you don't get any high definition recording/playback equipment.
satanami69
11-03-2003, 02:53 PM
Originally posted by paulszpet
If you are not familiar with Jack Valenti, he is the man who apparently speaks for all the movie studios in regard to copyright infringment/piracy.
Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) is rumored to be the new president of the MPAA starting next year. The tinfoil hat part of me worries that while J. Valenti was able to just buy some votes to get his agendas passed, Billy will be able to pull up plenty of secrets, interns, and DNA tests to get his passed.
JEFFDUBE
11-03-2003, 08:50 PM
I don't get it...we've been recording movies for the better part of 20 years now...vcr have sold in the millions.
What is this new BS all about anyway..keeping the optomitrists in business?
JEFFDUBE
11-03-2003, 08:52 PM
Rob,
You'll have to wait till next year to record cable and D* HDTV. UNLESS you get it OTA....Zenith can do that for you.
The difference is the technology. VCRs made lousy copies of what you recorded. Typically 240 lines of resolution or up to 400 if you had an S-VCR.
The new DVRs will make a perfect copy of the HD input. It took a while to sort out the "rights issues" associated with copying HD and that has been done. These units will now be released.
Also HDD capacity had to be a fair size since HD requires roughly 9 GB/hour of HDD space when recording from Cable or OTA, slightly less from SAT.
These recorders are coming to market in the coming months. Some of us have been waiting years...
(some have been available for a while, but only could be used for OTA because they were the only STBs that had firewire outs.)
