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Date Posted: 09:20:59 07/27/02 Sat
Author: axel
Author Host/IP: ATuileries-102-1-3-42.abo.wanadoo.fr / 217.128.76.42
Subject: Re: Hitachi DT-DR1
In reply to: Person with questions 's message, "Hitachi DT-DR1" on 07:41:32 07/27/02 Sat

>Isn't this what is needed for taping from digital
>cable?
iLink is only for transferring the content of anyone's camcorder to DVHS ; as far as I know, digital cable outputs are not on this format.

What seems to be missing also from the images on the .jp website are the potential mpeg2 outputs. I mean 'potential' because they are hidden on all US and EU machines (but implemented on the hardware.)

>I imagine a digital recording will work with PAL just as >well as NTSC regardless of the original territory of the >VCR.
Nope, an ntsc recorder will only record in ntsc and most probably not read pal (unlike the EU models which all read ntsc).

The catch is: this is a 'closed' machine, hence its cheap price ; it will not be able to 'communicate' in digital and will only be good to transfer your old vhs/svhs/hi8 etc tapes through its analog inputs only.

...not that the other machines are more 'open': their iLinks are input only and the mpeg outputs are hidden and use a plug format unknown to everybody... but the plugs are here and probably usable - if you have a degree in electronics...

DVHS is a great format and a strange format in many ways... As if a prototype went public.

The one EU machine you can find pretty cheap these days is the Philips VR20D ; same machine as the original JVC, slightly less ugly.
Mine has been functionning faultlessly for the past 4 months (DVHS tapes only).

axel

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