Damn you 'E4'........................(UK)

[Will Hay]

Okay, so E4 (Sky TV) decide to show the entire second series of Phoenix Nights Season 2' on TV last night, and bright spark here decides to record direct to the PC.
All fine, up until the last episode.
It was advertised to be broadcast between 9pm and 12pm, but some arsewipe at Channel 4 decides to stick some sleasy half hour shit on before the last episode, and as a result the sixth/final epsiode is some half hour later.
As I feed the TV signal via my VCR, up into the loft and down to my PC, and as I'd set the video to turn on at 9pm and off at 12:10am I lost the feed halfway through the last epsiode (as it was late).
So I belts downstairs and turns on the VCR, and back upstairs to watch the rest of the final episode.
Okay I thought, only lost twenty seconds, could have been worse.
Ha!
Trouble is, as a consequence of the static shit that appear on the TV when the VCR switched off, Virtualdub decides to throw the rest of the recording out of sync, and now it's virtually unwatchable
E4, if you're reading this...
...you are bastards.
All of you.
If anyone can send me an mpeg of the clip I lost (5 mins in from the beginning up to the commercials) I'd be very, very grateful
E'bastard'4.
Will

[baker]

don't E4 repeat everything???

Check through the epg, I wouldn't be suprised if it will be repeated in the next 24hrs.

+ you must be getting very bad quailty!! y r u going threw the vcr firsT??

I have coaxial cable coming straight from the composit out to my pc, gives great quailty

Baker

[Will Hay]

+ you must be getting very bad quailty!! y r u going threw the vcr firsT??

It's how the house was configured when I bought it.
All four bedrooms have Sky TV and, the VHS signal from downstairs.
I've captured directly from Sky and can't see any loss, it's as good as Sky Digital is (which is shite)/
Will

[baker]

are you recording in from an aerial signal???

That means no surround sound + colour and detail loss

Baker

[Will Hay]

are you recording in from an aerial signal???

Yep.

That means no surround sound + colour and detail loss

What makes you think surround sound is a problem for me?
I don't have nor need this 5.1 business, I just have a regular 25" Nicam TV.
25" is a small screen right?
Seems like I don't ask as much of my recordings as others do.
It would be a boring world if we were all the same.
My captures are wonderful, thanks for your concern, don't be too unhappy
W.

[bugster]

You should invest the Extra in a Sky+ box. I would find it difficult to live without mine.

Also, did you know, you can use the sky guide personal planner to trigger some (many I belive) VCr's to start recording (this is without Sky+) so if the schedule changes, and the TV company updates the EPG correctly, you still get what you need. I know thats still a few 'ifs' in there but it gives you a better chance that hoping they transmit everything on time.

[baker]

ppl dont reliease how good stereo sound is until they test a little :d

just for me, put on a dvd and plug in a pair of stereo headphones with a mono/stereo switch. and do a bit of switching.

You will be absoloutly amazed at the difference. Apart from having the speakers seperatly encoded, stereo just generally sounds way way way better.

Baker

[Will Hay]

ppl dont reliease how good stereo sound is until they test a little :d

just for me, put on a dvd and plug in a pair of stereo headphones with a mono/stereo switch. and do a bit of switching.

You will be absoloutly amazed at the difference. Apart from having the speakers seperatly encoded, stereo just generally sounds way way way better.

I'm not entriely sure how a coaxial cable differs from a composite.
Am I simply transfering the footage from digital to anologue and losing some quality?
Will

[baker]

Its interesting that this post came up now cause I am just setting up my own recorder an re-doing my coax-ial cable.

Essentailly composite is the same as the aerial signal, except without a carrier wave. yawn...

IN other words you are not losing a lot, but your losing some, due to interference and the fact that the digibox uhf modualter(the thingy for composit->aerial format conversions) is pretty crap.

But if you cant get a new cable up to your computer than dont worry. But I do reccomend getting an audio cable up. Since this stuff is small it wont be hard to install, and will make a difference.

Baker

[ember]

Stereo is false, mono is natural. People obsessed with 5.1 should listen to nature.

[baker]

Oh I see, you've only got one ear then which is located on top of your head??

Baker

[Will Hay]

Trust me, if I didn't have a 15 month old son, a 1971 car in need of renovation and a wife planning to give up work I would invest in 5.1

Will

[thxkid]

crap, you guys from the UK ever heard of hard disc recorders or DVD recorders, what the hell are you even using Crap VHS anymore, get with the times, a 40 hour hard disc recorder by APEX is only $199 and then you could ahve set it for 6 hours and lost nothing and static would not have been a problem.
I still can;t believe how many people that use DVD burners or other digital device are still pandering to the VHS Crap issue, please throw them out I had 4 SVHS JVC editing decks and when I bought my 2 DVD recorders I threw them out and don't even own a VHS recorder or tapes any longer. If its price, wait cause sub $350 recorders are on its way by at least 10 major brands, including APEX, Sampo, Orion, Samsung just to name a few. I own panasonics cause they are the best.

[Will Hay]

crap, you guys from the UK ever heard of hard disc recorders or DVD recorders, what the hell are you even using Crap VHS anymore, get with the times, a 40 hour hard disc recorder by APEX is only $199 and then you could ahve set it for 6 hours and lost nothing and static would not have been a problem.
I still can;t believe how many people that use DVD burners or other digital device are still pandering to the VHS Crap issue...

What the **** are you bleating on about?
Did you even bother to read the entire thread, specifically my inital post?
I'm not recording VHS, I'm recording the digital signal that passes THROUGH my VCR - that's the way my setup is and if you don't like it I really don't give a shit.
I lost part of the tape because the time of the program changed, and I'd set the video to record the original time.
Nothing to do with the quality of recording.
Plus, what kind of idiot suggests the Brit buys a dvd recorder and then tells them how much the US price is?
Are you as dumb as your posts suggests?
The cheapest DVD recorder in the UK is still around £400 ($580) so THAT'S why we don't have them as much as the US citizen's, some of us can't afford that much.
If you have a problem with what I've just posted or in the manner in which I've presented it then I'd prefer you complain here, rather than post anymore shite and hijack the thread.
WH.

[boss]

Stereo is false, mono is natural. People obsessed with 5.1 should listen to nature.

i always knew mono would make a comeback! 8)

[baker]

Nice one boss!

I dont have dolby sigital either. Beacuase of the way the rooms shaped dolby prologic is better for me.

Baker

[EddyH]

Stereo is fairly essential, but not so much for TV progs like phoenix nights.. i only know a couple people with stereo TVs (but there's always the option of plugging in the hi-fi for films )

Surround sound is just a toy. The amount of messing about it takes to get it working compared to the benefit is just silly. If there was some easy way to make my player work in 3.1 (left, right, centre, bass), now that would be nice

PVRs, foo. What happens when you run out of space on the disc but want to keep stuff? You still have to dump it out somewhere. Cheapest way of doing that, even *after* considering putting it to VCD via putting the disc in your PC? VHS tape... and certainly the least hassle. No messing about with encoding and all. Just connect the VCR, program-play-pause the films & shows you want, put in a new 4hr tape, set it to record long play full-tape, press play on the Tivo, and go to bed
(might want to put the macrovision stripper inline first though)

[baker]

Have you never heard the stereo in te simpsons??

Baker