DVD Burning with Dish Network
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the 811's SD outputs are active simultaneously to the HD outputs, so there is no need to toggle between them. To record a show you have to select the line in (S-Vid or Composite) on the DMR-55K. Using the 55K's EPG with the 811 is not possible to my knowledge, so you have to set a timer recording or manually record the show in question.
For unattended recording you can set an "Auto Tune" timer on the 811 and a seperate timer on your 55K...Kinda a pain to set both timers but to my knowledge this will be the way to make it work. Don't use the VCR timer function on the 811 cause it has some issues...To be fixed in Software rev. P282 being spooled now to beta.
Jason
Jason
Note that the 55K manual states that to record MTS/SAP or 16:9 aspect ratio they say you need to use DVD-RAM.
But either way with the fun it sounds like your having it's time to go stock up on disc's...I just got a 50 pack of DVD-R's from CompUSA for $19...I've seen them cheaper but I like the brandname stuff.
But either way with the fun it sounds like your having it's time to go stock up on disc's...I just got a 50 pack of DVD-R's from CompUSA for $19...I've seen them cheaper but I like the brandname stuff.
I have a Dmr E30, and used a 6000u to burn downrezzed from, I found that I had better PQ with the ram discs, and they seem to be very stable... your can use flex record to adjust the time to the disc. Wally world did have ram disc's but I have not seen them in awhile...Enforcer said:
Quality degrades with record time.
Be warned that recording longer times uses more compression -- smaller image recorded. For me, anything over 2 hours 4 minutes required going from SP (2hr nominal) to LP (3hr +) and although the booklet didn't say so, this meant the image size recorded was with half the number of lines.
Going to SLP (4hr) or EP (6hr) really generates pixelization and you are down to a 320 x 240 image (EP). The best quality (1hr) was only sightly better than SP.
My Classic died two weeks or more ago with a locked door and later the power supply as I investigated. With my 921 I may not replace it. I did get about 200 DVD+RW recordings $1.20 each for the recorder, $.50 for the RW disk.
BTW, it had component out but not in. S-video, composite, and RF in and out. Some (Pioneer) record -R, some record +R, and some play one or both. I would even do PAL -- just gets in the way.
-Ken
Be warned that recording longer times uses more compression -- smaller image recorded. For me, anything over 2 hours 4 minutes required going from SP (2hr nominal) to LP (3hr +) and although the booklet didn't say so, this meant the image size recorded was with half the number of lines.
Going to SLP (4hr) or EP (6hr) really generates pixelization and you are down to a 320 x 240 image (EP). The best quality (1hr) was only sightly better than SP.
My Classic died two weeks or more ago with a locked door and later the power supply as I investigated. With my 921 I may not replace it. I did get about 200 DVD+RW recordings $1.20 each for the recorder, $.50 for the RW disk.
BTW, it had component out but not in. S-video, composite, and RF in and out. Some (Pioneer) record -R, some record +R, and some play one or both. I would even do PAL -- just gets in the way.
-Ken
I have a semi-related question: Are there any DVD recorders that would take the Toslink output from the 811 and preserve the Dolby Digital surround? Seems like a reasonable thing to do; therefore I must conclude that the MPAA would have a major cow if anyone created a digital copy of their soundtracks, so no one offers this feature.
I was considering getting the DMR-E55K to go with my 522 to permamnently archive shows i've recorded. What would be the best way to hook this up? I'm currently in single tuner mode, but the secondary outputs don't have S-Video, correct? So I was thinking to maybe just output the 522 through the recorder full time. But then would the satellite come through when the recorder was off? Or do I now need to power that on every time. Any thoughts/comments are appreciated.
