Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Flash Stick
 

I like the look of this, especially the ability to be able to record digital
TV directly into its internal memory, has anyone on this group got one and
if so how do they rate its performance?

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/images/flash_dvbt/uk/index_uk.html

Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Flash Stick
 

Ivan wrote:

I like the look of this, especially the ability to be able to record
digital TV directly into its internal memory, has anyone on this group
got one and if so how do they rate its performance?

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/images/flash_dvbt/uk/index_uk.html

I don't have one but it lookls like a novel idea though. The only thing
is that with just 1gb you won't record much.

Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Flash Stick
 

"Darren Wilkinson" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Ivan wrote:

I like the look of this, especially the ability to be able to record
digital TV directly into its internal memory, has anyone on this group
got one and if so how do they rate its performance?

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/images/flash_dvbt/uk/index_uk.html

I don't have one but it lookls like a novel idea though. The only thing is
that with just 1gb you won't record much.

They also don't say the recording format .TS or MPEG4, there was a previous
thread on the idea of incorporating a flash memory feature into PVRs,
especially now that larger capacity memory cards (such as 8gb SD) are
becoming available and the price is coming down.

Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Flash Stick
 

Ivan wrote:

"Darren Wilkinson" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Ivan wrote:

I like the look of this, especially the ability to be able to record
digital TV directly into its internal memory, has anyone on this
group got one and if so how do they rate its performance?

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/images/flash_dvbt/uk/index_uk.html

I don't have one but it lookls like a novel idea though. The only
thing is that with just 1gb you won't record much.

They also don't say the recording format .TS or MPEG4, there was a
previous thread on the idea of incorporating a flash memory feature into
PVRs, especially now that larger capacity memory cards (such as 8gb SD)
are becoming available and the price is coming down.

In which case it'll be TS. Hardware transcoding is a big feature so
their promotional material would have mentioned it.

Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Flash Stick
 

"Darren Wilkinson" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Ivan wrote:

"Darren Wilkinson" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Ivan wrote:

I like the look of this, especially the ability to be able to record
digital TV directly into its internal memory, has anyone on this group
got one and if so how do they rate its performance?

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/images/flash_dvbt/uk/index_uk.html

I don't have one but it lookls like a novel idea though. The only thing
is that with just 1gb you won't record much.

They also don't say the recording format .TS or MPEG4, there was a
previous thread on the idea of incorporating a flash memory feature into
PVRs, especially now that larger capacity memory cards (such as 8gb SD)
are becoming available and the price is coming down.

In which case it'll be TS. Hardware transcoding is a big feature so their
promotional material would have mentioned it.

Well now that VHS video recorders are so rapidly becoming obsolete, one
would have thought that there would be a crying need for a new kind of
'standardised' and easily transferable storage media as a successor to
videotape.
By all accounts memory cards aren't reliable enough for long-term are
archiving, but if it was that important the information could simply be
transferred onto a medium which has longer term reliability.

Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T Flash Stick
 

Ivan wrote:
"Darren Wilkinson" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Ivan wrote:

"Darren Wilkinson" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Ivan wrote:

I like the look of this, especially the ability to be able to
record digital TV directly into its internal memory, has anyone
on this group got one and if so how do they rate its performance?

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/images/flash_dvbt/uk/index_uk.html

I don't have one but it lookls like a novel idea though. The only
thing is that with just 1gb you won't record much.

They also don't say the recording format .TS or MPEG4, there was a
previous thread on the idea of incorporating a flash memory feature
into PVRs, especially now that larger capacity memory cards (such
as 8gb SD) are becoming available and the price is coming down.

In which case it'll be TS. Hardware transcoding is a big feature so
their promotional material would have mentioned it.

Well now that VHS video recorders are so rapidly becoming obsolete,
one would have thought that there would be a crying need for a new
kind of 'standardised' and easily transferable storage media as a
successor to videotape.
By all accounts memory cards aren't reliable enough for long-term are
archiving, but if it was that important the information could simply
be transferred onto a medium which has longer term reliability.

At the moment recordable DVDs fulfil that roll.