On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:05:47 +0000 (UTC), Jules Richardson wrote:

Would depend on how many VCR tapes you had. The basic 250GB HD
holds
IIRC something like 200 hours worth of programmes.

That's not too bad ... certainly more than I'd expected!

My 500GB HD Panasonic PVR hold a mere 75hrs by default which I think
records the data stream as transmitted. If you aren't all that fussed
about quality it'll stored a silly amount, 2,000+ hours springs to
mind but that would probably be worse than VHS...

Aha, now that is useful! I'd figured that the manufacturers were
probably leaned on by movie and TV companies and didn't allow people to
do stuff like that, so you got stuck with a self-contained box and had
to start binning stuff when space ran out.

That's why you buy a PVR with built in Blu-ray burner then you can
archive off to Blu-ray or DVD should you want to. B-)

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Cheers
Dave.