Late to the Party: Pioneer 640H

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7/21/07 at 6:01pm

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Surprisingly, my Citibank Visa with ThankYou Rewards listed the Pioneer 640H. Since I knew it was hard to find, I figured they could not fulfill it, but surprise, suprise--they did. So for last month I've hooked up and recorded right and left. Amazingly easy and delightful to use. Editing is great. Beats the old Centrios that I used to use w/o the hard drive.

I know I'm preaching to the choir, so to speak, about how great this Pioneer DVR is, but I do have a question: For what reason would I ever use the VR mode for editing? I do a lot of editing out of commericals with the video-compatible high speed dubbing, so just wondering what the VR could be useful for.

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7/21/07 at 6:33pm

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Some people like to archive series shows during their season and put together a complete series later. Copying them off the HDD to a VR-mode -R or -RW disc allows you to high-speed copy from HDD to VR-mode DVD, then back to HDD later, also in high-speed, so no loss of quality.

So, if you offload the shows to a VR-mode DVD after recording to the HDD, you can take your time and compile the complete series later, when you have the time... without losing any quality in the HDD > DVD > HDD > DVD copying process.

You can use this also when you just need to offload things on the HDD but want to edit later.

It also allows some other editing features that I haven't heard many (any?) people using VR mode for...mostly compiling.

P.S. Read the cautionary notes at the bottom pg 83 in manual re: LP/MN9-MN15 rec. modes...they can't be high-speed copied when using VR-mode. Also widescreen titles rec. at certain low rec. modes in Video or VR mode. Stay at MN16 or above...see pg 125 for MN modes and relationship to std modes (XP, SP, etc.).

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