Message board for HiDTV Pro

[Gregg Lengling]

Just in case anyone was interested the distributers of the HiDTV Pro computer card have a bulletin board similar to this one here with pertinent questions and answers about the Pro HiDTV card and future software enhancements.  Jens their moderator does a great job of answering questions in a very timely manner, and there are others out their playing with them and writing additional application software.  It's neat the way you can schedule recordings using their free service included with the card.  Also the information is there for burning DVD's or CDROM's with the video stream.  The only drawback is right now the single density DVD's will only hold about 30 minutes of HD content, but what the hell at least we can make it permanent until a real high density DVD format is available.  By the way the card can interface with the HD-VHS recorders.



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Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
glengling@ameritech.net

[ReesR]

(as he perks up with interest)

did you say HD on DVD?  How the heck do you record/playback HD on the DVD medium?

I have a Sony authoring system here and can easily record NTSC.  But you really got my interest when you mentioned HD on DVD.



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Rees Roberts
Racine, WI
reesr@wi.net

HDTV Receiver:  Sony KD-34XBR2 16X9
Bi-directional AntennaCraft VHF Yagi Model #2260P
+
2 Winegard PR9022 UHF yagi's pointing N & S
Antennas at about 30 feet

[Gregg Lengling]

First off you need the HiDTV Pro2 receiver card for your computer.  You record the stream to your hard drive and then author it on a DVD-R if you have it.  You can also do it to a CD and make it DVD playable but you'll only get about 7 minutes.  The CD is only about .7 gigs and the DVD is about 4.7 gigs.  I'm going to try it this weekend on the CD and see how it works if it works good I'm going to buy a dvd burner for my computer to replace the DVD player in it.


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Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
glengling@ameritech.net

[ReesR]

Thanks Gregg.  I will be interested in how it works.  I already have 200 gig available and a DVD burner.  So suddenly this appears like a really interesting solution.

I'm staying tuned for news.

[tenth_t2]

While the media can hold data, it's won't be able to make a playable DVD or video cd as we now know it.  Using a DVD-R (or RW) as a data storage medium, no problem.  I don't think the transfer rate of the media will be enough for replay though, so you'll probably have to copy the file back to a hard drive for playback.

Still, not a bad option.  However, since you're still dealing with what amounts to data, a DLT or similar tape drive may be more cost effective per gb stored.

Greg O.

[Gregg Lengling]

That is incorrect you can make a DVD or CD-ROM with video (mpeg2) that will play on a DVD player.  Howeve there are caveats as to what burner and software is compatible with which player.  However I intend on playing it back in the burner, the MPEG2 data then goes through the HiDTV Pro and out to the component video.  But the software I have for the CDROM works and makes playable videos for my Sony DVD player and if I buy a DVD burner you can be sure I will have it set up to be playable on my Sony.


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Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
glengling@ameritech.net

[tenth_t2]

Gregg,

Here's a thread I found on AVS that I based my comment above on:
 http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=7da3027656c89932fcba169378705c37&threadid=158265&highlight=HDTV+and+Record+and+DVD

Greg O.