Recording HBO-HD 6 Star Wars For 14 Hours On a HDD DVD Recorder at XP-60-70GB -TODAY!

DVD SD quality with 2.0 sound...no thanks.

I'll keep my 1080i, 5.1 DVHS copies.

Can you record from your DVR to a PC once it's already recorded? I have the original trilogy recorded from when it was on last time. I'd like to put it on my PC.

Just wait till Lucas caves and get them on Blu-ray or HD-DVD. You know he eventually will.

Wolfie

Yeah 5 years from now.

I couldn't save mine to PC because of copy protection. I put them on D-VHS because I didn't feel like waiting five years.

2:15: check
80 gb HD DVR: check
OAR: check (Ep 1 at least)
Pixelaton: check, in a bad way thru D*.

5.1 sound

Way to burn to dvd: un-check

should be 5.1 sound.

how does one copy from dvr to dvd. i have dish 622 dvr

Drat just saw this. Well I will get EP II to VI at least.

Yep. Got them all on SVHS tape from my JVC DVHS deck.

I did this the last time they showed the SW flicks. That's how I got the Star Wars screenshots (buried in a different thread).

Step One: record to Dish Network ViP622 HD-DVR in unpixelated 1080i and 5.1 sound.

Step Two: this summer, Dish updates the ViP622 to support external USB hard drives.

Step Three: Buy reliable 500gb drive for ~$125 which fits 50 hours of HD programming.

Step Four: Transfer Star Wars and other HD movies and shows (some people have all of Planet Earth, for example) to external hard drive, where it can be accessed at any time.

Now recording: Star Wars III: Revenge...(high def lava!)

Watching it now ... the PQ isn't all that much better than the SD DVDs on a decent upscaling DVD player (but, it IS better )

I don't know guys.

Just buy a refurb (or even a new low price Mitsubishi DVHS off eBay if you can find one) and it will be cheaper, and it's a straight to digital transfer, and much less bother.

I think when I purchased my refurb JVC HM-30k 3yrs+ ago it cost me $299. 2hr blank Fuji SVHS tapes (they work fine for digital) cost like $2 if you know where to look.

One caveat about tape is they take up so much shelf space. Waiting for BD-ROM prices to come down, but then I couldn't burn my tapes to BD or even straight from the cable-STB to PC anyways because they are freakin' '5C=1' which means Copy Once, so tape only. Meh.

It hasn't rained in weeks, but a plane flew over my D* dish tonight, right when Alderaan blew up in Episode IV. I can catch it again Wednesday.

I was watching via C-band HBO East at 8:22pm Phoenix time (MST, same as PDT) and there was a loss of signal and some blocking as the picture recovered. I was wondering if that was on my end or if all of you who were recording also got the glitch. I only wish that I could have recorded the SW movies as I can store movies on my PC and watch them on my HDTV via a local network and Roku box.

Actually, I was wrong about one thing.

Star Wars cannot both be in 1080i and OAR. If it is in OAR, then it is letterboxed 2.35:1 and thereby can only be about 817 lines of resolution.

This occurred to me when I was noticing that despite looking very good, it still did not look as good as "Sunrise Earth" or other Discovery HD Theater programming. Then I realized that - due to letterboxing - the resolution was less than those.

I wonder if it is possible to implement (in the future), something similar to anamorphic for 2.35:1 ... a future 3840x2160 set could then show 2.35:1 films in higher resolution...

I was wondering a similar issue. Overall IV and V look great w/ details I've never seen before, but the darker dramatic scenes lose detail in the corners, is it supposed to look that way or is it a transmission issue or my set? I'm on TWC w/ a 1080p LCD.

The resolution is the same...its just that a portion of that resolution is solid black. If 817 lines were stretched over a 1080 space, then youd be correct...but its still 1080 lines, regardless of whether the screen is filled or not.

i've only watched episodes I & II. very impressed with pq. better than i was expecting. via e* and 622 dvr. impressive blacks.

The more that I watch these, the worse the PQ is getting from D*.

huh, i was thinking d* had pumped the bitrate up on HBO for the showings- i saw much less macroblocking than on goblet of fire, for instance . . . .