On Oct 25, 10:08 am, Gary Tait wrote:
Ron wrote in news:1193287345.405529.209450
@v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com:



Hmmm, I can get 8 hours on a single videotape; what can I get on
a DVD
disk? One hour of recordings at most, if I had seen rightly the
last
time I was at Target. Not even comparable... So I think I'll
wait
till the new tehnologies catches up with the old. :-)

You can get at least 20 hours on HDD based DVRs.

If you have OTA, the lates TiVo does anout 160 hours at its basic
mode for
analog SD, plus can tune digital/HD channels, although it sosts
about $200,
and has a monely fee.

In 16 months it will not matter as the analog TV transmitters will all
be turned off permanently. I've been using digital TV for almost 4
years now and I can't imagine dealing with NTSC ever again -- and I
work in a video post house. True, no tape based VCRs but certainly
recorders based on hard disks of which I have 3 units (PCs), often all
3 running to capture HD shows for later - MUCH later as in next
summer. No reruns at our house.

No ghosts, smears, ringing, noise (except for film grain), 5.1 audio.
Bulk storage? I'm using 500 gig USB drives ($110 Fry's) to hold
archived shows -- about 120 42 minute shows in HD (commercials
removed) per drive. 4 times that in std def. 20 years ago Bill Gates
told us TV would be centered on PCs and I thought he was full of it. I
was wrong. Time to take the plunge - the water's great.

GG