F*cking video recoders

[old.ignus]

its no wonder people buy DVDs coz video recoders these days are just shit they're far to complicated to work properly.
friday night last week I was in a hurry but wanted to record some of the stuff on chanel 4 later that night. Instead of trying to figure the stupid videoplus or timer out I rewound a tape to the beginning and pressed record. Now back when I was young you could get a nice simple video recorder that had a simple timer that worked a bit like an alarm clock, and also if you pressed record it would just do exactly that. But for some fucked up stupid reason the people who design video recorders are out to make you mad. So I pressed record and left it, went out, got pissed and came back to watch it next day, but it wasn't there. You see what happened was that at the end of the first of two programs on before what I wanted to watch it stopped, why? I don't know, I can only guess that it tried to be clever and switch itself off thinking I didn't want to waste the whole tape.
So we get all these useless features in exchange for a shorter lifespan, my first video recorder lasted about 4 to 5 years, my last one only about a year, if that.

Long live the DVD!!!!

 

[GDW]

Aren't videos still better though at recording stuff than DVDs....




































even if its not the right stuff

 

[.cage]

 

[Xtro]

cage you are starting to scare me.

 

[Trem]

LMAO Cage

The new and good vid's have a thingy built in that cuts out adverts and receives a signal from the channels if the program is starting late and stuff, I think this may be why yours didn't work right.















I may be wrong as usual though

 

[old.ignus]

my old one was the best one, it had this great feature that meant when you press record it entered pause record mode, you know just in case you didn't mean to record anything, you had to press record again to make it record. Took me ages to figure that one out.

I'm sure they'll have DVD recorders on the shops soon.

 

[Moving Target]

Originally posted by old.ignus
I'm sure they'll have DVD recorders on the shops soon.

And they'll cost a lot more than video recorders. No thanks.

 

[dysfunction]

They do have DVD recorders in the stores...if you are willing to pay about £300 to £400 for one...

 

[old.Jas]

Originally posted by .cage

Oh dear

 

[Summo]

I remember when work bought a 2-speed CD-Recorder for £400 a few years ago. Now you can buy a 40-speed CD-ReWriter for £40.

One day soon, 'taping' a season of Buffy (as it digitally airs) to a ReWritable DVD will be as common as burning porn onto a CD.

*sage nod*

 

[old.Jas]

Maybe by the time everyone has DVDRs then we'll all be using phat 10mb fibre net connections.

Oh, I'm sorry, do some of you still have to rely on BT? What a pity.

 

[dysfunction]

There better not be any more Buffy Episodes!!

 

[Sar]

Currently up to 7.03

 

[Cloak_]

When are the new episodes aired btw?

Just watched 7.01 ~ never really watched it before,,

 

[old.Jas]

Buffy episodes have version numbers?

 

[dysfunction]

Yes in order for them to keep track of all the shit!

 

[Sar]

7.03

Season 7, Episode 3.


Shut it Dys.

 

[Summo]

Following on from that last Buffy thread (where I wasn't a big fan, tbh) I downloaded 6.19-22 and 7.1 and 2. I'm impressed. What I once thought was corny American cliche I now appreciate as the amusing Buffy 'style'. I like it. Good stuff.

Nice touch when Spike challenges the soul-demon thing. "Here we are now. Entertain us."

I'll be looking out for 7.3, though it looks like the good storyline has ended and we're back to regular average episodes.

edit: I see 7.3 is on Kazaa now.

 

[Lester]

Originally posted by Tremor.
LMAO Cage

The new and good vid's have a thingy built in that cuts out adverts and receives a signal from the channels if the program is starting late and stuff, I think this may be why yours didn't work right.
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B3t4m4x are teh W1n!!!!!11111

 

[dysfunction]

Originally posted by Sar
Shut it Dys.

 

[whipped]

Originally posted by Summo
Following on from that last Buffy thread (where I wasn't a big fan, tbh) I downloaded 6.19-22 and 7.1 and 2. I'm impressed. What I once thought was corny American cliche I now appreciate as the amusing Buffy 'style'. I like it. Good stuff.

Nice touch when Spike challenges the soul-demon thing. "Here we are now. Entertain us."

I'll be looking out for 7.3, though it looks like the good storyline has ended and we're back to regular average episodes.

edit: I see 7.3 is on Kazaa now.

Another convert and woot! 7.3 gets downloaded tonight

 

[WPKenny]

I already got it.

Is it technically pirating? I mean it's on public TV in America and it's going to be on TV in the UK in a few weeks.

Strictly speaking it probably is but are there many people out there that would honestly have an issue with distributing stuff that's been on the telly?

 

[whipped]

It's the people that are selling the episodes converted to VCD on CDs that are the ones that may get in trouble.

 

[Nos-]

Originally posted by dysfunction
They do have DVD recorders in the stores...if you are willing to pay about £300 to £400 for one...

Where?

And if by that you mean DVD-R/RAM drives for pc's then I'll cut you.

 

[dysfunction]

Originally posted by Nos-


Where?

And if by that you mean DVD-R/RAM drives for pc's then I'll cut you.

If you are willing to buy it you can get them at Dixons...

DVD Recorder