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Old 24-06-2014, 23:16
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Hi,

I hope someone can advise....

I have a video mixer hooked up to various equipment and it outputs via a Phono Composite output. I wish to be abee to record the output from this, but now I realise it's becoming more and more difficult to purchase HDD recorders with analogue connectivity. I have seen devices that convert an analog signal to digital RF so that's fine to use that if necessary.

Ideally I would like to be able to record the output to a USB drive, so I can archive the recordings for later viewing, and then be able to play those back on any TV/player/PC with a USB connection.

Maybe USB drive isn't the way forward???? I don't really want to record into a computer and the recordings would generally be 5-8 hours. It's not HD quality, but I need to record in the best quality possible.

Has anyone any experience of what would be useful to me?

Thanks.
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Old 25-06-2014, 00:10
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avermedia do some capture boxes that are really designed for capturing game play and in high definition. To record from composite you'd also need a composite to hdmi or component video adapter.
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Old 25-06-2014, 00:41
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What's wrong with a DVD recorder? You can then play back the recordings on any DVD player.
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Old 25-06-2014, 09:04
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I have a video mixer hooked up to various equipment and it outputs via a Phono Composite output. I wish to be abee to record the output from this, but now I realise it's becoming more and more difficult to purchase HDD recorders with analogue connectivity.
Your problem is you're looking for an HDD recorder, you need to look for a DVD recorder - which although 'relatively' rare now are still easily available, usually complete with an HDD as well.
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Old 26-06-2014, 15:51
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I'm not looking for a DVD recorder - As detailed in my original post, I need to be able to receord between 5-8 hours in one go in as high quality as possible. This simply wouldn't happen on DVD.

I have heard of recording TV direct to a NAS box - Anyone any experience of this or thoughts on it???

Thanks.
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Old 26-06-2014, 16:17
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I'm not looking for a DVD recorder - As detailed in my original post, I need to be able to receord between 5-8 hours in one go in as high quality as possible. This simply wouldn't happen on DVD.

I have heard of recording TV direct to a NAS box - Anyone any experience of this or thoughts on it???

Thanks.
A DVD recorder with hard drive can record to the hard drive. Easily get 5-8 hours in the highest quality on that. Getting it off again if you need to might be another matter.

To record to a NAS drive you would need some sort of video capture device that could plug into your network and transfer data to the NAS drive. Done a bit of googling but failing to find anything that can do this at the moment.
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Old 26-06-2014, 17:08
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I'm not looking for a DVD recorder - As detailed in my original post, I need to be able to receord between 5-8 hours in one go in as high quality as possible. This simply wouldn't happen on DVD.
As I mentioned in my previous post (and as Chris has also mentioned), most modern DVD recorders have HDD's as well, but because it's a DVD recorder it will accept analogue inputs to the HDD as well, and do what you're wanting.
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