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Looking for Freeview STB with DV out
Is there such a beast?
Failing that, recommendations for a Freeview box with reasonable-quality S-Video out (as opposed to RGB, composite or component) which won't break the bank.
The reason: I've picked up the Aldi DVD recorder and want to find ways of improving picture quality on recordings - the recorder doesn't seem to support RGB input on SCART. It does, however, have sockets for S-video in and DV in.
Failing that, recommendations for a Freeview box with reasonable-quality S-Video out (as opposed to RGB, composite or component) which won't break the bank.
The reason: I've picked up the Aldi DVD recorder and want to find ways of improving picture quality on recordings - the recorder doesn't seem to support RGB input on SCART. It does, however, have sockets for S-video in and DV in.
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then you could copy your programs to a pc edit out adverts make the start and finish clean and burn to dvd.
who will need buy dvd of your favorite tv program then
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I was thinking of keeping the video connection totally in S-video, and I don't know if these converters would introduce signal or quality loss. I think there are two types of converters, one which just uses the S-video pins on the scart itself, and others which do physically convert the signal from one format to another. This is an area I'm not too familiar with, so any guidance would be appreciated.
Some of these converters do, cos they feed the S-Video into the composite pin on the scart so that any tv can view the signal and not just S-Video compatible tvs.
Have used a Maplin L05BB to extract the S-video, but it makes the RGB signal quite a bit darker. (Yes, I have tried changing the SCART set-up on the digibox between s-video and RGB).
I guess DV-out-equipped digiboxes will arrive sometime.
Sorry for the late posting, but the Pioneer DBR-TF100 has S-video as an option on both its SCART sockets. I bought mine for just GBP70 from Richer Sounds.
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Yeah - they're great - I got mine last week. It's the "setting the video from work" thing that's best.
If you're interested, I went for a Shuttle XPC with an AMD 2800+ Athlon XP, 512Mb RAM, 160GB disk and a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T card. I added Gentoo Linux and MythTV and it all works beautifully with the remote in and SVHS to the telly. Total cost, around £350 - more than a PVR but with the network connection, the GPL'd software (so I can update and extend it myself if I want to) and all the USB/Firewire and other IO nonsense (including SPDIF), well worth the money. I believe I can even get a CAM and smartcard reader to get a HDD PVR for TUTV. The network port can also be used to run front-ends on other machines and you can network as many as you want as a single system. I reckon the next machine will have a 2nd DVB-T and a satellite card...
It took a while, but it's well worth the effort!
SVideo -> Composite leads do "conversion", but not Composite -> S-Video
Didn't realise that there was such a differnence between DV and MPEG - I thought it would have made sense for DV to have been based on MPEG.