yuppicide Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 See topic. Don't want DVD recorder. I want something to record SVCD's preferrably or VCD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Standalone recorders are going to be a pretty scarce commodity nowadays, especially in the States. And for the time, money and effort it takes to find one, you could get yourself a decent video card and software for doing VCDs and SVCDs on the computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 Nah I see them all the time for $100-$200. Terapin still makes one, but it's VCD only and if possible I'd rather go SVCD. Plus, I like the convience of it already being encoded for me.. just copy over and I'm done. I could get a cheap DVD burner, but it's not what I want. I don't even have a DVD in my computer anymore. My burner was 2x and slow as hell so I sold it. I currently have about 1200+ music videos in mpg, almost every MacGyver episode, almost every Seinfeld, some cartoons, etc. I'd like to build a media PC with just a big hard drive full of TV shows connected in my living room. It would do nothing but store videos and play them back. I will put in a 300 or 400 gig drive and a dual layer drive only to burn backups. I'll use a CD storage system that automatically catalogs everything so I can find them easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted September 27, 2005 Author Share Posted September 27, 2005 Picked up a SVCD recorder on eBay for $67 + $25 shipping. I burned on VCD so far, but have yet to really try it out. I don't have RCA jacks or SVIDEO on my bedroom tv, so I'll take it out in the living room tommorow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 (edited) I think I prefer the route I went: PVR card. VCD/SVCD recording in realtime, TV tuner and a bunch of other crap. Works well for recording or even just being able to pause/rewind live TV. And they're relatively cheap for a decent one, too. Then afterwards you can burn your recordings however you want, or edit them first if you prefer. Edited September 27, 2005 by Mindfield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarmas Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 http://cgi.ebay.com/Amoisonic-VDR2000-CD-V...1QQcmdZViewItem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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