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Long shot here - IRecord equivalent with timer record function?
IzzyS
17-12-2007
Yup this is a very long shot lol I heard about the IRecord and it sounds a useful item... its something I would like to get, to replace an old Belkin video capture device I have which is rather elderly and riddled with glitches/bugs and so on.

This would make for a good replacement and at the moment I have a problem, where ive got a new TV, my old one was a VCR combi but my new one isn't a combi and basically I've had to connect my old standalone VCR to the TV through SCART to be able to play back my old VHS tapes. The other thing I'd like to be able to do would be to ocassionally record from my Telewest/VM cable box. I'd only want to do it ocassionally but ive faffed about with my VCR and just can't seem to get it to find and record from the VM box... and the IRecord would be cool as I have a PSP I could watch the recorded footage on.

Anyway the problem is that the IRecord is not only very expensive (£160 in the UK, which to me is very expensive) but it doesn't offer a timer record function... ok there is some timer record option but only when used with an IPod and some extra desktop software I believe and I dont have and dont really want an IPod so thats not much use for me...

I wondered if anyone knows whether there is a similar device out there that does offer a timer record feature? or does anyone know if the IRecord will offer it as a feature in the future? just curious... if it was £100 or under I'd probably buy it and quite how its $199 in the US equates to being £159.99 in the UK I don't know, I guess its more expensive here - typical rip off Britain but it would be nice to have something like this that could quickly record footage that I could then watch on my PSP or store on a flash drive or something... im not sure this is the best forum to ask this in but its for use with portable devices so I guessed it was close enough. I'm seriously not wanting to pay that kind of money for it when it doesnt even have a proper timer record function, I've got other stuff I wanna get too (lol)...
andyjb
27-12-2008
Originally Posted by IzzyS:
“Yup this is a very long shot lol I heard about the IRecord and it sounds a useful item... its something I would like to get, to replace an old Belkin video capture device I have which is rather elderly and riddled with glitches/bugs and so on.

This would make for a good replacement and at the moment I have a problem, where ive got a new TV, my old one was a VCR combi but my new one isn't a combi and basically I've had to connect my old standalone VCR to the TV through SCART to be able to play back my old VHS tapes. The other thing I'd like to be able to do would be to ocassionally record from my Telewest/VM cable box. I'd only want to do it ocassionally but ive faffed about with my VCR and just can't seem to get it to find and record from the VM box... and the IRecord would be cool as I have a PSP I could watch the recorded footage on.

Anyway the problem is that the IRecord is not only very expensive (£160 in the UK, which to me is very expensive) but it doesn't offer a timer record function... ok there is some timer record option but only when used with an IPod and some extra desktop software I believe and I dont have and dont really want an IPod so thats not much use for me...

I wondered if anyone knows whether there is a similar device out there that does offer a timer record feature? or does anyone know if the IRecord will offer it as a feature in the future? just curious... if it was £100 or under I'd probably buy it and quite how its $199 in the US equates to being £159.99 in the UK I don't know, I guess its more expensive here - typical rip off Britain but it would be nice to have something like this that could quickly record footage that I could then watch on my PSP or store on a flash drive or something... im not sure this is the best forum to ask this in but its for use with portable devices so I guessed it was close enough. I'm seriously not wanting to pay that kind of money for it when it doesnt even have a proper timer record function, I've got other stuff I wanna get too (lol)...”

Well, if you're still looking for a solution - I've got an irecord pro. Yes, it's too expensive, and yes, you can't do timers onto, say, a usb stick. I got it for my ipod, but it does do timers on a computer. So if you've got a notebook computer you can hook up to the video source, you're in business. Alternative: Hook the irecord pro up to a usb hard drive or stick, then set it to record until the drive/stick is full. Turn it off the next morning. Using the "iRecord Desktop 2.x" on your computer beforehand, with the usb device attached, you can configure the irecord (when connected to said usb device) to close a file and start a new one every 30 minutes, hour, ninety minutes, anything you like up to every 3 hours. All you have to do now is transfer the files from the stick / drive to your PC, maybe edit them, and watch them from the PC or transfer them to whatever video-capable player you have. (The iRecord can neither store nor play back anything; that's why you need an ipod, or another player, or a PC, or ...) Point is, if you reject ipod and reject recording onto a notebook directly, and therefore can't (yet) do timer recordings with the irecord, you can record all day and night and fish out what you want to watch - you just need a usb device with enough gigabytes. (I'm assuming you can program the source to be on the right channel at the right time.) -Andy
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