On December 8, 2007 at 20:49, audio4 said...
I am old school(open reel tape
recorder old)
I'm old school from when the consumer machines had 3" tape reels and the takeup reel determined the tape speed.
and I am looking for a machine that is as
easy to use as a VCR(remember them?),
Even assuming that you knew how to set the clock without using the manual, and you knew how to program it to record, there are no DVD recorders that easy.
with tv tuner,
That's problematic as the present analog channels and their relatively cheap recorders are now essentially obsolete. This is like buying a Scully tape recorder making sure you get the Elcaset attachment.
preferably
with HDD(storage space is not too important). What IS
important is that the unit uses different types of discs(+/-,
r. r/w, 1/2 layerd, 1/2 sided) in some combination. Also
it MUST be able to record a MACROVISION encoded disc as
sent to it by my dvd player,
The whole point of Macrovision is that you not copy. Sounds like you should bail right here.
OR my computer which can
play BOTH CP and NON CP discs.
Ah, and when it plays, does it give you an output that you could record? Probably not....
The copying process should
be no more difficult than useing 2 vcrs as I do often.
Not gonna happen.
If my DREAM machine does not exist, than I will just bag
the whole idea and stay with tape! I can*t tell the difference
in quality anyway! For me the basic avantage to disc is
the inherint convieniance of editing before final copying
to disc, nothing more.
How about the storage space of 500 discs versus 500 tapes?
What happened to the days when you could
buy a product, look at it for 2 minuits, and operate it?
It's more capable, and capable means complicated. As researchers say about the human brain, if the brain were simple enough for us to understand how it works, WE would be too simple to understand how it works!
Without having to spend 2 weeks reading an endless owners
manual that might have been written in LATIN or GREEK?
Non carborundum illegitimi,
which is fake latin for
"don't let the bastards wear you down."
