recording off satellite to dvd-r

[mcgrady]

a friend just purchased a dvd burner for his tv and we wanted to record off the satellite to dvd for some shows. it has a 2, 4, and 6hr speed. i record onto vhs on ep all the time and even though its suppose to be lowest quality it always turns out fine. if i record onto the ep speed on the dvd burner will the quality be as good as if i recorded onto new vhs ep speed.. just wondering if anyone knows..

thank you

[ZippyP.]

Quality is in the eye of the beholder, and different makes perform better at longer time settings. You'll just have to try it and see. Personally I don't like to go above 2 hours, but then I haven't tried a JVC.

[Racer2x]

I agree. I got the ILO, applied the hacks, which got me the 3 hr. mode, and I wouldn't go further than 2 hr mode, unless I don't care all that much about the quality. Oh, and I, too, have a satellite system, that I am recording off of.

[samijubal]

2 hours here too, never gone over on any I've owned. Discs are far too cheap to sacrifice all that quality.

[JohnnyCNote]

I've transferred a lot of movies from my DishNetwork DVR to DVD in the 4 hr mode and they look fine. I've also given a lot to my brother and he says they're fine as well. You could get an RW disk and experiment with different speeds to see which looks best to you....

[mcgrady]

thanks guys lots of help

thanks johnny c for the info cause i plan on recording a show from 7-11 sunday night and just wondered if it needed to ep or what.. i will record on the 4 hr speed instead of the 6 hr just to be on the safe side..

thanks for the info

[JohnnyCNote]

Any time! I've found that anything past about 4 1/2 hours or so tends to lose quality fairly rapidly, but up to that looks fine....

[lordsmurf]

You can generally go up to 3-4 hours, depending on the quality of the recorder. Some recorders look bad past 2 hours, inferior chips.

The specs of 4-hour are essentially the same as 2-hour (half res, half bitrate).

The 1-hour 3-hour is a superbit-like bitrates (3-hour res/bitrate at half of 1-hour).

Beyond four hours, you deinterlace your video, which looks like crap.