DTV issues

[John Mullaney]

Actually though they have been out for over 2 years in Japan Blu-Ray
recorders have not made it to the US. Supposedly some will make it next year
starting at 800.
There is a Panasonic unit overseas that has a 1TB drive but it is guessed
that it would go for over 2000.00 here. There are copyright issues here as
well as the players are selling very poorly at 300.00

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/10/15/panasonic-bringing-blu-ray-recorder-to-
us-in-2009/

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/panasonic_blu_ray_recorders_shipping_
next_month/C157

Any TV with or DTV receiver has composite video in's and outs that will
still mate with any old style VCR's and DVD recorders and players to record
lo-def.
Note that the set top receiver/converters we are all talking about are also
only DTV not HDTV.


-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
George Allen
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:36 PM
To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
Subject: Re: DTV issues

On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:19:45 -0500, Larry W. wrote:
>The only way you could be able to record in true hi-def is to get a 
>Blu-Ray recoreder (approx $400), or a hi-def Tivo.
>Larry Weil
>Lake Wobegone, NH


There is another way that cost me $20 on black Friday at Circuit
City: a USB ATSC tuner.  Of course you end up recording on the computer, not
a DVD... But you can record in HiDef or something close to it [I'm not sure
yet what formats the Happuge WinTV software can do].
   George