RE: ShowShifter vs. TiVo

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Yes, but only if the DVD player actually supports that, which older and
cheaper ones do not therefore negating the whole point of doing it as
almost
every home has a VHS! So for recording something for someone could be a
very
hit & miss affair if you archive them off to VCD.

So what you are really doing is archiving for your own needs which is
entirely different to doing it for a neighbour or a friend as you have
the
facilities to use that technology right now, most "normal" people
do not
have that facility or don't know and don't care if they have. Whereas
my
plan is to get a way to archive off to DVD, but then I really want 5.1
surround too, which I cannot get from any off-air transmissions for now
and
AFAIK, Sky will only broadcast certain stuff in 5.1 before anyone goes
there. Needless to say the stuff I want will not be in 5.1...known as
Sod's
Law!

But then, I can't seem to find the time to watch any more than a few
hours
TV a week so having a huge archive of off-air stuff is of little use to
me
other than very specific programming.

In any case, who has the time for that nonsense of encoding it to a VCD
anyway? ;-)

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: Amar Nagi [mailto:amar@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 24 May 2002 15:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] ShowShifter vs. TiVo

why would you want to watch vcd on a pc 
when you can play it in a dvd player and watch on your tv :-)

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