Mits 65613 RPTV -> Mits HD VCR

I have a Mits 65613 RPTV and can record OTA HDTV broadcasts
via Firewire in HD to the Mits HS-HD2000U HD VCR. The D-VHS
recordings look (as they should) as good as the original HD
broadcast.

I also have a Samsung satellite receiver which is connected
to the Mits RPTV via the DVI input.

The Mits RPTV manual has the following info about making
VCR recordings:

Source Destination
------ -----------

digital digital vcr Allowed
digital analog vcr Allowed
analog analog vcr Allowed
analog digital vcr Not allowed

Here is my problem: I can record digital OTA to the D-VCR
and I can record analog to the VCR (in S-VHS analog mode),
but I cannot record the DVI source to the D-VCR.

Does anyone have an idea how I can record HDTV from the
DVI input via Firewire to the D-VCR?

Any info appreciated.

Nemo

In article , Nemo Nomen
wrote:

Does anyone have an idea how I can record HDTV from the
DVI input via Firewire to the D-VCR?

The simple answer is you can't do it. (As far as I'm aware.)

This is because the D-VCR is recording the transport stream in its
encoded form; the tuner in the TV does the decoding. DVI does not
transmit information in that form, thus it is not possible to record
from the DVI input to a device expecting an MPEG transport stream like
the D-VCR.

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Seth Mattinen wrote:
In article , Nemo Nomen
wrote:

Does anyone have an idea how I can record HDTV from the
DVI input via Firewire to the D-VCR?

The simple answer is you can't do it. (As far as I'm aware.)

This is because the D-VCR is recording the transport stream in its
encoded form; the tuner in the TV does the decoding. DVI does not
transmit information in that form, thus it is not possible to record
from the DVI input to a device expecting an MPEG transport stream like
the D-VCR.

Seth, thanks for the info. It looks like I have just spent $4,600 to do
something that cannot be done.

Is there a DirecTV satellite receiver that has a DTV output that could
be sent via Firewire to the Mits D-VCR? I would spend more to get the
combination that would allow HDTV recording.

Thanks for any info.

Nemo

In article , Nemo Nomen
wrote:

Seth, thanks for the info. It looks like I have just spent $4,600 to do
something that cannot be done.

Is there a DirecTV satellite receiver that has a DTV output that could
be sent via Firewire to the Mits D-VCR? I would spend more to get the
combination that would allow HDTV recording.

Thanks for any info.


Not that I know of. Dish is releasing their PVR HD receiver with
FireWire jacks, but I've heard they are going to ship disabled. It's
just as easy to capture the sattelite stream to disk, but everyone is
paranoid about recording.

Supposedly TiVo will have a HD PVR sometime the end of this year or
next quarter. There will probably be a DirecTV version.

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