Divx

[kill1967]

Well Digital to Analogue conversion will reduce the quality of your
image on video tape, plus videotape isn't a suitable archive medium
with a nominal life span of around 10 years.

A straight digital to digital copy would be better, but MPEG2 to DiVX
might not be that hot. Converting a lossy compressed file with another
lossy compression algorithm...Never done it, but the guys at
http://www.vidomi.com seem to have upgraded their application to
decode TiVo .ty streams and output them to DivX.

I don't know how good it works or whether the quality is great, but
it's what you're looking for I guess.

Cheers,

John


--- In ExtractStream@y..., "Richard" <richard_1309@l...> wrote:
> I am thinking of getting a tivo (UK) and i want to archive to
> DivX....correct me if i'm wrong but isn't it much easier to connect
the tivo
> to a the video in on your computer and record "live".. i have a 1.7
pentium
> 4.. .. what are the major disadvantages?