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Major Player
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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Recording television with FX1?
VCRs are dead and tivo is a hundred bucks (in my situation).
I have direct TV, and lets say I want to tape a show with my FX1. Is this possible? I tried, and couldn't get it to work at all. I would really like to record HD programs onto an HDV tape, but I can't even figure out how to do SD. It seems like this should work, can't VCRs record tv, why can't my camera's VTR? |
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Inner Circle
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Woodinville, WA USA
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Page 74-76 of your manual. FW (camera to camera) or composite/s-video only from a TV or VCR or, presumably, cable/sat box.
I think the HD connection (component) on the FX1 is output-only. But make sure you have IN/OUT REC set correctly (p.60). Then you could try the component out of the DTV box to the component in of the FX1. |
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Wrangler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mays Landing, NJ
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You can't record analog HD on the FX1 or Z1, only standard definition. The only way to record HDV (other than filming live) is via firewire.
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Inner Circle
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Also keep in mind that downconverted to SD signals from HD feeds might have Macrovision, rendering recording useless on those signals unless you can take the raw MPEG-2.
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