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Hi folks,
Forgive the newbie questions, but I'm trying to make a really fast decision...my toddler is crawling all over me and I don't have the time to spend searching through old posts.
My decision is whether to replace my ailing VCR with a new VCR or get the PVR offered by my cable company (Rogers, in Toronto). Right now I have a "digital" cable box, on which the first 100 channels are still analog, the rest being digital.
I have a pretty good analog feed, such that my analog channels often enough look as sharp, or even sharper, than many of the compressed digital channels.
Now of course I know a PVR will record the material digitally and output a digital signal. But what I'm wondering is: will everything I watch through the PVR be a digitized signal? In other words, is it's A/D circuit in the chain all the time such that I'm watching what it has digitized? Or does it only begin digitizing an image once it's recording? Or is the A/D circuit bypassed when watching TV?
What I'm getting at is that I don't want my TV channels going through a digital converter so that my NTSC images look even more "digitized," with the extra conversion step added. I want a straight analog pass-through for my analog channels.
Can someone clear up my questions on this?
Further, I'm currently using a Hi-Def cable box and the PVR won't record Hi-Def. Do I assume correctly that in order to incorporate the PVR into my system and retain my HD cable box, I'll have to get a splitter to split the incoming cable feed to both boxes? (And if so, should I worry about signal loss?).
If it helps, here is the PVR offered by Rogers Cable:
http://www.shoprogers.com/store/cabl...italtv_pvr.asp
Thanks!
Forgive the newbie questions, but I'm trying to make a really fast decision...my toddler is crawling all over me and I don't have the time to spend searching through old posts.
My decision is whether to replace my ailing VCR with a new VCR or get the PVR offered by my cable company (Rogers, in Toronto). Right now I have a "digital" cable box, on which the first 100 channels are still analog, the rest being digital.
I have a pretty good analog feed, such that my analog channels often enough look as sharp, or even sharper, than many of the compressed digital channels.
Now of course I know a PVR will record the material digitally and output a digital signal. But what I'm wondering is: will everything I watch through the PVR be a digitized signal? In other words, is it's A/D circuit in the chain all the time such that I'm watching what it has digitized? Or does it only begin digitizing an image once it's recording? Or is the A/D circuit bypassed when watching TV?
What I'm getting at is that I don't want my TV channels going through a digital converter so that my NTSC images look even more "digitized," with the extra conversion step added. I want a straight analog pass-through for my analog channels.
Can someone clear up my questions on this?
Further, I'm currently using a Hi-Def cable box and the PVR won't record Hi-Def. Do I assume correctly that in order to incorporate the PVR into my system and retain my HD cable box, I'll have to get a splitter to split the incoming cable feed to both boxes? (And if so, should I worry about signal loss?).
If it helps, here is the PVR offered by Rogers Cable:
http://www.shoprogers.com/store/cabl...italtv_pvr.asp
Thanks!