VCR's (not very pianoistic!)

[Chris Currie]

Pat, the only way I know of now would be to take them to a video editing
service and have them converted first to digital.  I don't know whether
these shops now have DVD burners or not.  If not, you could probably take
their digital output and feed it into a PC (perhaps through an IEEE 1394
Firewire card), then write it onto a DVD using a DVD-RAM or DVD-RW drive.
Only problem is that the current generations of these have compatibility
issues with existing DVD players.  These problems should be ironed out
during the coming year.  Probably in a couple years this will be commonplace
technology, at least for PCs if not for boxes you use with your TV.

I would just be leery of investing in a new VCR at this point -- especially
an expensive one -- since it's pretty certain this technology is becoming
obsolete.

 -- Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Neely <pneely@thegrid.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: VCR's (not very pianoistic!)


> Chris can a person copy their old videos to DVD yet?  Pat Neely assoc mem.
>