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I would be grateful for some advice on how to get the best from my Sky+ box and Sony DVD and hard-drive recorder.
What quality does Sky transmit programmes in? And what quality does Sky+ record in? Is it in both cases the equivalent of ‘SP’ (two-hour) mode on my Sony DVD recorder? If I want to record something off Sky onto DVD is there any point in me using ‘HQ’ (one-hour) mode on my DVD recorder? Will it degrade if I use ‘SP’ mode?
If I want the highest possible quality, is it best to record direct onto DVD rather than recording onto Sky+ first? Is there a loss of quality each time something is recorded/copied even if the same mode (e.g. ‘SP’) is used each time? If I record something on Sky+, then copy it onto the hard drive of my DVD recorder (to edit it), and then download it to DVD, will it degrade it three times? If so, can this be mitigated by using a higher quality mode (e.g. using ‘HQ’ to copy something recorded in ‘SP’)?
What quality does Sky transmit programmes in? And what quality does Sky+ record in? Is it in both cases the equivalent of ‘SP’ (two-hour) mode on my Sony DVD recorder? If I want to record something off Sky onto DVD is there any point in me using ‘HQ’ (one-hour) mode on my DVD recorder? Will it degrade if I use ‘SP’ mode?
If I want the highest possible quality, is it best to record direct onto DVD rather than recording onto Sky+ first? Is there a loss of quality each time something is recorded/copied even if the same mode (e.g. ‘SP’) is used each time? If I record something on Sky+, then copy it onto the hard drive of my DVD recorder (to edit it), and then download it to DVD, will it degrade it three times? If so, can this be mitigated by using a higher quality mode (e.g. using ‘HQ’ to copy something recorded in ‘SP’)?
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Recording at SP isn't quite as good as the original, but the difference is negligible in my opinion. Depends how fussy you are, best thing is to try recording in SP and see if you are happy.
Assuming your DVD recorder does a straight data copy rather than re-encode anything again then there won't be any loss between your HDD and the DVD either. What you don't want to do is record in HQ on the HDD, then output to SP on the DVD.
If I want to put (say) a 2-hour film onto DVD, there should be no loss of quality as a result of recording off Sky+ rather than directly off the original Sky transmission.
If I copy to my DVD recorder hard drive before downloading onto DVD (e.g. to edit out the adverts) there should be no loss of quality provided I use the same recording mode each time.
If the DVD will be recorded in ‘SP’ (two hour) mode, there is nothing to be gained from using a higher quality for the initial copying to the DVD recorder hard drive.
Thanks again.
2) You will loose quality regardless when you record to your DVD recorder's hard disk. How much quality you will lose depends on what record mode you are using. But as many have said, 2hr recording on a DVD recorder these days is very acceptable.
3) The only thing to be gained will be an increase in Bitrate, and thus picture quality by using a one hour mode over a two hour mode.
There's no point in using s-video unless RGB input is absent,or you have a connections shortfall
One point though - the VCR scart on a digibox doesn't do RGB, it's PAL composite only, only the TV scart does both RGB and comp (at least that's the case on my PACE)