Well, for DVD recorder features to be "better" than a VCR, they should
be not only be common and standard across the range of recorder brands
and models, but intuitive as a VCR is for recording. My Sanyo DRW-500
does not do DVR-RAM. Any poor schmuck who bought one thinking they are
better than a VCR because it is "DVD" would be sorely disappointed at
the lack of aforementioned flexibility. MY Toshiba D-R4 does DVR-RAM,
but to perform as you suggest, requires not only complete familiarity
with the remote and ALL menu functions, but also laborious chaptering of
the offensive sections for deletion. Sure, you can do it, but it's not
intuitive, particularly easy, or, for that matter, doable by a large
majority of the consumer public who cannot even program the clock on
their VCR. How do you expect them to wade through the complicated menu
functions req to edit a DVD-RAM after the fact?
The video and audio quality on a DVD is "better", but that's the extent
of it.
JR
lsmartino wrote:
JR North ha escrito:
Bull****. DVD recorders have NONE of the flexibility of a VCR for real
time recording. VCR: While recording a movie, If you miss Pause when the
commercial appears, you can stop the tape, rewind to before the
commercial start, and start recording when the movie starts again, sans
commercial. You absolutely cannot do this with any format of DVD. If you
miss the Pause, your screwed. Also, there is a delay, sometimes several
seconds, before recording starts on a DVD recorder when Record or Pause
is used. Makes real time recording or dubbing a tape from VCR to DVD
VERY difficult to do properly. Sure, you can record over on a DVD-RW,
but as I said, NO flexibility for editing or dubbing.
JR
Nope, you are wrong. At least with Panasonic DVD recorders you can use
a DVD-RAM disc. With a DVD-RAM you edit your movie, or show, *after the
recording is made*, and you can cut any commercial or portion of the
show. And if the DVD recorder has a internal harddisk, you record the
show to the harddisk, edit it there, and then you produce the final DVD
recording after all the editing is done, without loosing any quaility.
No VCR can do that. If you donīt pause the recording live, you canīt
edit the show unless you produce a second generation copy, which will
be loosy, as it usually happens when one tries to copy anythin from an
analog format to another analog format.
I would expect that other brands of DVD recorders are able to use the
DVD-RAM discs because they are very convenient for TV show recording.
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