At 12:19 PM Sunday 8/2/2009, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Aug 1, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 07:31 PM Saturday 8/1/2009, David Brin wrote:
Today's DVD's
1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and
many units throw fits, even then
Another problem, at least with the unit I have, is that if I want to
record a program (frex) from 8 to 9 on channel m followed by one
from 9 to 10 on channel n onto VHS, it works fine and I get both
programs in full (assuming my clock is sufficiently in sync with the
clock the station is using). If I try to do the same thing to
record to DVD±RW, when it finishes recording the first program
instead of changing channels and recording the second program it
spends anywhere from about 30 seconds to 2 minutes displaying
"Writing to disc . . . " and a status bar and so I miss the
beginning of the second program. (Or the end of the first if I try
to compensate for that "feature" by setting the first recording to
end at 8:58 or 8:59 . . .)
Is that the case with all DVD±R/RW machines, or just the
[relatively] cheap one I got in order to have something in place
before the end of analog broadcasts?
Depends on the make/model. This sounds sort of like what a Sony would
do ..
This particular box bears the Magnavox brand.
Another annoying thing it does: if there is
already a disc (perhaps a partly-used ±RW disc
with sufficient space) in the drive, it will not
allow me to set the timer (iow, pressing the
button to start that process does nothing) unless
I first eject the disc. Then after setting the
timer, I have to close the drawer with the disc
and wait for it to load the disc before activating the timer.
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a
little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider
price only are this man's lawful prey." -- John Ruskin
And the mandated DTV changeover was just another
excuse to get money out of people who were
satisfied with things the way they were, even
those who have little or naught to spare.
. . . ronn! :)
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