On July 10, 2006 at 00:25, OTAHD said...
First of all, I don't think NTSC will really be gone in
2 years, you know how they keep pushing it back.
Maybe they will, maybe they won't, but even in SD you will get a much better PQ with an ATSC tuner than an NTSC tuner and WS programs can be recorded anamorphicly rather than letterboxed.
Your best bet now is to get a set-top recorder with at
least composite/s-video, preferrably component, inputs,
and a seperate ATSC tuner. Hook the SD (or EDTV, hopefully)
output of the tuner to the input on the player.
The problem with this approch is that you can't have the DVD Recorder change the channel for you so you can only record on one channel.
What kind of 8mm are you talking about? The camcorder
tape will be easy. If you're talking about old film,
I could help you there, too. I successfully made DVDs
for over 200 reels cheaply and would be happy to share
my experiences.
I am curious on what you did? May father-in-law has a buch of 8mm film home movies that would be nice to convert to DVD.
