Magnavox 2160 Questions

Originally Posted by LowerEastSider

I just purchased a Magnavox 2160 online from Walmart. It seemed to offer everything I wanted and I hope they have a firmware fix soon.

Questions:

1. Will this unit record music off of my FM tuner to the hard disc? Are there any problems doing so (copy protection, interference, etc.)

Originally Posted by LowerEastSider

2. When recording from digitial TV, will the various problems regarding copy protection signals be solved if the unit is hooked up to a separate digital TV converter box?

Originally Posted by LowerEastSider

3. How hard is it to install a larger hard drive? Will the unit function the same, or must it be reprogrammed after a hard drive swap?

Originally Posted by wajo

No problem, just play from a DVD/CD player or other device that has audio outputs as described in this help file and linked post. Those posts describe how to get the music on the HDD (then make a music DVD, which you might not be interested in).[/url]

Originally Posted by Clevor

You can also use a HDD recorder to record audio from YouTube, in a quick-and-dirty manner which gets around creating an .flv file, then having to buy software to convert that to MP3 or .CDA.

I use a minijack-to-RCA cable and plug the jack into the headphone port of my laptop. I connect the RCA side to an s-video input of my Toshiba RD-XS52. I found only input 2 allows me to record the audio to HDD. Then I click on a YouTube link and press record on my remote. I mainly do this with live performances or OTA broadcasts of my favorite performers, where the song was never cut on CD. Of course I can only play back the song on my HDD recorder and TV speakers, unless I convert the file to MP3 or .CDA on my PC. Fortunately with the Toshiba RD-XS series, you can play back and access titles on a DVD-R on your PC.

But if I'm watching TV and want to listen to some music, it's there on my HDD and just a click away. And you won't find it on any commercial CD.

Originally Posted by stevethebrain

How do you plug a RCA into a S video?

Originally Posted by stevethebrain

How do you plug a RCA into a S video?

Originally Posted by Church AV Guy

The S-Video connector is for video only. He's talking about audio inputs. In order to properly use S-Video, you the S-Video cable, AND RCA L/R cables. He is using the audio input connectors which are part of his S-Video input (S+L+R).

Originally Posted by Clevor

As Church AV Guy mentioned, I am going into the red/white audio inputs next to the s-video socket, from the headphone jack of the laptop.

I have since superceded this (blind) setup by buying at Atlona video scan scaler ($250), which enables me to capture video as well as audio. Essentially anything that I can see on my computer screen can be recorded. 'Course the video image is limited to VGA output (480 dpi ) converted to s-video, so it's not as good as hooking up your laptop via HDMI output to your TV, at 1600x1200 resolution on the laptop. But recording moving images, e.g. YouTube video on the Net, can look surprisingly good on the TV, if the source is high quality 480i uploads.

There's always some person uploading really nice video on YouTube. As I'm an Oppo owner now, I can understand it's a commercial DVD of a live concert performance played back on an Oppo BDP-95, going directly into the component ins of something like a Polaroid 2001G, with a Video Filter in between. The result is indistinguishable from the original DVD. This stuff uploaded on YouTube can look really nice! Until YouTube pulls the person's account, that is .

Originally Posted by stevethebrain

Hello Clevor I have been using my Panasonic DMR eh75V to record audio and video this exact same way I plug the S video cable out of laptop into the front Panny S video then plug the headphone 3.5 from LT into a Yed RCA for the audio then record to either HDD or DVD on the Panny works great,

I've never tryed it on Y tube just streetfire.com

?1.when I use the 515 like this will I have an option to chose where to record either HDD or DVD?

?2.when only recording audio doe's use the same amount of space on HDD or DVD as do the audio and video together do.
Thank you
STB