charentejohn
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Any advice or recommendations on the best PVRs to do this please.
I have an old Humax box that can copy movies to an HDD via USB which is ideal. But it is getting on a bit and has had a couple of 'stutters' in recordings so may need a new HDD. I have one but before messing with it I started looking for possible replacements. As long as the box stays in one piece I have a partial solution, to take the HDD out of the box and connect by a sata extension cable, so it can be disconnected and connected to PC for copying.
Best future option I can see would be a Freesat reciever with a USB port to attach an external HDD for recordings (making it a PVR) so that when I have a few movies etc I want to keep a copy of I can just plug it into the PC and copy it.
Best I can see so far is the Icecrypt S3700CHD box but the user manual is a bit iffy in it's explanations due to being a translation into english.
Seems it saves as Mpeg4/AVC files not encrypted or compressed, so my editor (videoredo TV suite) can process them.
All in all ok but the program recodings seem a bit 'clunky' like the old VHS videos used to be. Records at the touch of a button from the main OSG but only allows record, once, every day, weekdays, weekends ??? What happened to record series which is an essential.
I think it can record two channels at once but it also says 8 preset recordings max, not really enough (Humax doesen't seem to have a limit) or does it mean 8 day OSG, manual is not well written.
Has anyone got one of these to confirm what it can and can't do ? Ideally I would like the Humax OSG and functions with an externally recordable drive for ease of copying.
Any ideas on what to look out for, for example I think panasonics use a tricky file format but not sure.
I have an old Humax box that can copy movies to an HDD via USB which is ideal. But it is getting on a bit and has had a couple of 'stutters' in recordings so may need a new HDD. I have one but before messing with it I started looking for possible replacements. As long as the box stays in one piece I have a partial solution, to take the HDD out of the box and connect by a sata extension cable, so it can be disconnected and connected to PC for copying.
Best future option I can see would be a Freesat reciever with a USB port to attach an external HDD for recordings (making it a PVR) so that when I have a few movies etc I want to keep a copy of I can just plug it into the PC and copy it.
Best I can see so far is the Icecrypt S3700CHD box but the user manual is a bit iffy in it's explanations due to being a translation into english.
Seems it saves as Mpeg4/AVC files not encrypted or compressed, so my editor (videoredo TV suite) can process them.
All in all ok but the program recodings seem a bit 'clunky' like the old VHS videos used to be. Records at the touch of a button from the main OSG but only allows record, once, every day, weekdays, weekends ??? What happened to record series which is an essential.
I think it can record two channels at once but it also says 8 preset recordings max, not really enough (Humax doesen't seem to have a limit) or does it mean 8 day OSG, manual is not well written.
Has anyone got one of these to confirm what it can and can't do ? Ideally I would like the Humax OSG and functions with an externally recordable drive for ease of copying.
Any ideas on what to look out for, for example I think panasonics use a tricky file format but not sure.