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Originally Posted by WarraWarra
If you need to record a lot you will need a huge hard drive in any device that can do it.
250gb / 500gb / 750gb or even a SAN storage area network as this can hold plenty hard drives and connects to the pc's network cable / usb . 3TB or 3000gb or more but expensive.
1 hour hd = something like 4gb at 720x??? resl. not sure or 1 hour = 1 dvd not sure might be more.
Look for maybe a 16mb cache hd and 7200rpm min in SATA or SCSI for best playback or similar. |
How much space depends on the bitrate, etc. I regularly record some low bitrate HD that requires about 10 GB for a normal movie. Stuff on
PBS is a medium bitrate, and requires more space. If you find one of the high bitrate feeds on satellite, it can use up 60 GB in a couple hours. I tried recording the superbowl last year, pausing at each commercial to save space, and I still used up something like 40 GB. So yes, it can take a lot of space, but it depends on what feed you're looking at.
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Originally Posted by WarraWarra
Most new video card for pc's has the DVI ?? out maybe this can help or have a connector from that to what can be used on your tv.
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The DVI port is what you can use to go to a TV, however before this is of any use, the computer has to be fast enough to display the HD. Most computers can't. I use about a 2 GHz computer, and have a good graphics card with a DVI output. Low bitrate HD will work fairly well, but medium or high speed HD won't work, because the computer can't keep up with it. Some people have had OK results with a 3 GHz computer but other people can't even get a 3 GHz computer to work. Some people say that the amount of L2 cache memory is important. I don't know.