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November 18, 2004

Shift Recording Quality while recording?

I have a Pioneer 810 TiVo and like to create archive DVDs of favorite movies broadcast over my digital cable system.  I know I can't edit before I write to the DVD, which is a royal pain, but I live with it.  Recording at extreme quality limits the DVD to 1 hour, high quality to 2 hours.  But a movie that goes over 2 hours - must I record at standard quality to squeeze it onto one DVD?  Is the best solution to break the recording into 2 chunks, the majority at HQ, the minority at SQ, and then write "both" programs to the DVD?
-- Dan

November 18, 2004 in DVD, TiVo

Answers

You can't change the recording quality during a recording. You'd have to do back-to-back recordings are different quality levels. Which is less than optimal.

But you don't have to make it fit on one DVD. The TiVo DVD-RW systems will span multiple DVDs if the content is too long. For example, I recorded Akira Kurosawa's 'The Bad Sleep Well' at High quality with a 2:45 run time. I saved it to DVD-R, which used two discs.

It does mean swapping discs at the break point - and a minor complaint is the cut off is somewhat abrupt. But as someone who was used to swapping LDs out when watching movies, it doesn't bother me. :-)

When you go to record something too long for one disc it will ask you which fragment you want to burn. So you do two burns - one for the first part, and another for the second (or more if it is longer).

Posted by: MegaZone at Nov 19, 2004 5:57:35 PM

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