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The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. (modified 0 times) wireless Profile This looks real cool!!! The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. You can use a blank consumer CD-R Audio or CD-RW Audio to record from a video source or transfer old recordings from video tapes to CD (VCD format). You can play the CD on the Terapin CD Video Recorder, multimedia computers, and VCD and DVD players that can play CD-R's and CD-RW's. http://www.goterapin.com/ http://www.goterapin.com/fea_cdaudio.html 08-17-2001 10:53:16

RE:The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. (modified 0 times) old_dog Profile Wireless, your post has driven me mad! Ever since your post I've been on a mission to duplicate the functionality of the Terapin Digital Video Recorder. The key I believe is in the use of the ATI All-In-Wonder(AIW) card. This Video card provides all of the functionality I need and then some. It's strange that in all the threads I've followed few people seem to be using the ATI AIW to it's full potnetial. Believe it or not, the biggest challenge has been the chassis. I want the system to be as small and as attractive as possible but still provide the flexibility of a microATX form factor. There are some great FlexATX and MicroATX cases but most require half height cards or PCI riser cards that obviously don't support AGP Cards. Once complete I should have the following: TV Tuner with Guide Plus DVD player MP3 Player Audio CD player Digital Video Recorder TiVo functionality Websurfer My cost objective is to pay less then the Terapin. I'm close. Got to get back to work. I will post configuration later! 09-17-2001 13:16:00

RE:The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. (modified 0 times) Badpenny Profile On page 3 of the Terapin manual (down load from the website) under recording media it calls for "Consumer CD-Recordable" and "Consumer CD-ReWritable" disks. "Consumer" disks cost more than the typical $0.19 disks at Fry's Electronics. They are still regular CDs but encoded so they will work on these new consumer recorders. The extra cost built into these disks is the Recording Industry's cut of the profits. Regular computer CDs won't work for digital copying. Also, digital copies cannot be made from digital copies, only from the original music CD (manual pg.19). I have used the ATI All-in-Wonder 128 to copy DVD movies onto 2 VCDs. Works very well. However, the latest revision ATI VCD player won't play 2.0 VCDs produced by ATI's own program, go figure!! 09-17-2001 19:50:05

RE:The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. (modified 0 times) old_dog Profile badpenny Over the weekend I purchased a cheap Geforce2 MX video card with TV out. I installed the DVD player and was very happy with the play on my monitor. However, redirecting to the tv produced poor quality display. This is discouraging as I wanted to build a TIVO/dvd home theather system our TV. My questions to you, since you have used the ATI AIW, are: Was the DVD playback quality as good on your TV as your monitor? Was the DVD playback quality as good as a cheap, stand alone, DVD player? I don't have one. Was the ATI player easy to use? I wasn't impressed with WinDVD or PowerDVD. Is standard vga display usable on the TV? I found the quality so poor that it was very difficult to use the menus and icons of the DVD player. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated before I shell out $175 for a radeon based AIW. Thanks 09-24-2001 07:52:55

RE:The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. (modified 0 times) Badpenny Profile old_dog I don't have a tv connected to the ATI AIW 128 card so I don't know how the DVD display is. At one time, I had a 'PC Cinema' computer connected to my 27" tv. It had an ATI 3D Rage 2 video card and had DVD player program. The resulting picture was fair but the conversion from VGA to NTSC lost some detail. If you plan on connecting to a wide screen projection TV, even with a line doubler, I'd forget it. You won't be happy with the quality. I gave up on the ATI AIW for making VCDs. It introduces faint color bars in the final MPEG 1 picture. I bought an I/O Magic PCTV100 card at CompUSA for $39 complete with PowerVCR II software. It has tv tuner, s-vid and composite video in (no video out). It can record from tv or an external DVD player directly to disk in MPEG 1 or 2 format. Works great and the price is right! If your looking for PC to tv connection, you might try one of the better VGA to NTSC stand alone converters. The ATI cards and cheap converters cause too much smear in the tv picture. 09-24-2001 14:06:33

RE:The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. (modified 0 times) Badpenny Profile old_dog Try the following link for some discussion on PVR type boards and systems. http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum1/HTML/008356.html 09-24-2001 14:16:30

RE:The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. (modified 0 times) redwood Profile Badpenny, thanks for the link! now, can you tell me, what ver of the software came with yours? I was interested.. but, the website said ver 2, I called, and, the gal said ver 1 ( boy, did I tell her to Read the website...) and, on the other forum, the guys are saying ver 3.. I was ready to giveup, if ver 1... sounds like yer happy with it, hey , worth a throw for 40 bucks... :) 09-24-2001 17:48:44

RE:The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. (modified 0 times) Badpenny Profile Redwood The CD that is packaged with the PCTV100 has "R-PCTV100-03 Version 1.0" on the label. The readme file with the program and the installation program both state that it is version 3.0. I ordered my board from the CompUSA web site about 2 weeks ago. I'm guessing that any new boards will come with ver 3.0. You can download a trial version from the CyberLink web site but it has limited function. The PowerVCR II also works with the ATI All in Wonder 128 in my other computer but it's slow getting started. I thought the system hung, but all of a sudden channel 2 came on full screen - surprise! 09-24-2001 19:41:28

RE:The Terapin CD Video Recorder is essentially a digital VCR. (modified 0 times) old_dog Profile Badpenny, Thanks for the tip. I bought the PCTV100 yesterday and hope to play with it tonight. Forty bucks is a lot less risky than $170. That was also an excellent link which really helped in my research. It has become obvious to me that very, very few people are actually using the TV-out function of their Video cards, And, those that do probably are sufficiently discouraged from continuing. With my very limited background I'm amazed at the lack of progress in this area. How is it that sophisticated $200 video cards can't compete with $130 cheapo DVD players for quality tv output. I think many people are ready for some PC to TV convergence but the PC vendors are MIA. Maybe that's why the PC Manufacturers are in such a slump. Also, I saw some reference to S-Video output having superior display quality on the TV over composite. I'm skeptical. It would have to be an order of magnitude better to be decent. I'll try that tonight as well. Thanks again for the replay. 09-26-2001 06:45:27

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