SeeMoreDigital
21st July 2005, 12:32
According to the August 2005 edition of What Satellite and Digital TV, Pioneer have launched new range of combined DVD/HDD recorders.
There are three models to choose from, the DVR-433H with 80Gb HDD, the DVR-530H with 160Gb HDD and the DVR-630H with 250Gb HDD. However, what makes these devices so special is the inclusion of an "advanced" MPEG-4 encoder "capable of squeezing 24 hours of recording onto a dual-layer DVD-R disc, while also improving recording/playback quality".
Alarmingly, Pioneer's own specification does not mention anything at all about the MPEG-4 encoder (it simply says: New high-quality MPEG encoder) but it does list the much longer recording times: -
http://www.pioneer.co.uk/uk/product_detail.jsp?product_id=10726&taxonomy_id=42-125
All come with fitted FireWire inputs, which I guess means it could be possible to generate DV directly to an high-quality MPEG-4 stream.... It's all quite interesting stuff!
Cheers
There are three models to choose from, the DVR-433H with 80Gb HDD, the DVR-530H with 160Gb HDD and the DVR-630H with 250Gb HDD. However, what makes these devices so special is the inclusion of an "advanced" MPEG-4 encoder "capable of squeezing 24 hours of recording onto a dual-layer DVD-R disc, while also improving recording/playback quality".
Alarmingly, Pioneer's own specification does not mention anything at all about the MPEG-4 encoder (it simply says: New high-quality MPEG encoder) but it does list the much longer recording times: -
http://www.pioneer.co.uk/uk/product_detail.jsp?product_id=10726&taxonomy_id=42-125
All come with fitted FireWire inputs, which I guess means it could be possible to generate DV directly to an high-quality MPEG-4 stream.... It's all quite interesting stuff!
Cheers