Guest roscored1000 Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Hi I am getting a Foxtel iq2 in a few days so am looking forward to finally being able to record easily off that medium but my query is this. I have several old VCR family movies that I would like to transfer to the new medium, is there a way to record to the iq2 box either through an RCA/video out to scart plug into the iq2 or some other way. Can a camera or similar be plugged in the iq2 as well for later video transfer[if yes where]. Or am I being too naive that Foxtel would make it that simple? Is it necessary to have a video capture card of some sort in my PC to do all this instead? Thanks in advance
swordfish805 Posted September 22, 2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Hi I am getting a Foxtel iq2 in a few days so am looking forward to finally being able to record easily off that medium but my query is this. I have several old VCR family movies that I would like to transfer to the new medium, is there a way to record to the iq2 box either through an RCA/video out to scart plug into the iq2 or some other way. Can a camera or similar be plugged in the iq2 as well for later video transfer[if yes where]. Or am I being too naive that Foxtel would make it that simple?Is it necessary to have a video capture card of some sort in my PC to do all this instead? Thanks in advance Regardless of what the iq2 can do, I would think the PC option would be much easier. There is plenty of good software to handle this stuff on a PC and you can edit the captured content and then recode it to whatever format/codec/compression combination you want. Can't see, why you would want to load more stuff onto the iq - if your house is like mine, where the iq is permanently full, and people over 10 are constantly asking those under 10 to delete Pokemon, Hannah Montana, Zack and Corey etc - then the last thing you'd want is to put more stuff on the iq.
Guest roscored1000 Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 The reason as i said is that i have some old family movies on VCR, that once i get rid of the vcr I will have no way of viewing them. Mine will be empty as it is new, so filling it up is not a problem,yet! And no one in my house who even knows who or what Hannah Montana is. Thanks for the reply though. So! Can it be done?
swordfish805 Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 The reason as i said is that i have some old family movies on VCR, that once i get rid of the vcr I will have no way of viewing them. Mine will be empty as it is new, so filling it up is not a problem,yet! And no one in my house who even knows who or what Hannah Montana is. Thanks for the reply though. So! Can it be done? I'm 90% certain it can't be done on the original iq - so I'd be surprised if the iq2 can accept a line in and record it (but I'll defer to comments from iq2 owners). However, I think the iq/iq2 is the wrong device for what you want. Why not record your VCRs to either:- - DVD and keep the DVD - hard disk and simply stream to the TV when you want to view? If you ever have kids you will become an expert in Hannah Montana, Ben 10 and a few hundred other extremely important things (and if you've already had kids the same principle applies, just different names/shows)
Guest roscored1000 Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 - hard disk and simply stream to the TV when you want to view? hi again, this is just what I am trying to do actually. But as I dont have a video capture card type device in my pc at present I was hoping that I could get all my VCR things onto a hard drive without having to spend more money on new cards etc
Shonky* Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 hi again, this is just what I am trying to do actually. But as I dont have a video capture card type device in my pc at present I was hoping that I could get all my VCR things onto a hard drive without having to spend more money on new cards etc Ain't gonna happen I'm afraid. IQ(1) and IQ2 don't have any video encoding/compression hardware in them since they receive digital signals already. So the hardware isn't even there. Best bet is a USB tuner with a composite (or SVideo input). Much easier to edit etc on the PC. Then you can burn to a DVD from there.
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