DAT-heads Digest #696

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  Re: HD/DVD recorder ("Gary Davis")


From: "Gary Davis" <g@hoxnet.com>
Subject: Re: HD/DVD recorder
Reply-to: g@hoxnet.com
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:12:42 -0800

First, I would advise against +R.  In my experience, it has poorer 
playback compatibility than -R, and it's become a niche format for 
Philips as most other companies have chosen -R as their preferred 
mode.  Also, +RW is a clearly inferior format to -RW and -RAM, as 
+RW is not a random-access format (it's acts just like a tape: you 
can record over a section in the middle of the disc, just make sure 
you don't erase what's after the part you are re-recording!)

As to your question about network compatibility, you did not 
explain what you want to do on the network.  Most machines will 
not let you transfer MPEG2 video files from or to the machine.  (But 
if you know of a machine that does allow this, please tell us about 
it!)  Panasonic made a machine called the DMR-E500, now 
discontinued, that was net-ready and did allow you to record and 
transfer things in MPEG4.  However, I'd guess you'd have to dub 
these files "in realtime" before you could write them to a 
compatible DVD.

--Gary


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