DVHS Articles On Your Web Site
Dear Gary, Just wanted to drop a few notes about your DVHS articles on your Web site. They are perfectly timed. I had the Panasonic DST50 and HD1000 and used them to record OTA signals, Showtime and HBO from my Dish 5000 setup. Problem with these is they are no longer built, support is tough, and the audio dropouts from the DST50. I am so excited about the library that I have built up that I wanted to go further. So the next step I did was to purchase the modified DTC100 for the 169time company at www.169time.com. They are the only company in the world that makes a set top box that interfaces with these D-VHS machines. This unit has allowed me to do input source switching and multiple timer controlling as well as eliminates the audio dropout issue that the Panasonic equipment has. Well now to why your article is so timely. I now have at my home two modified DTC100's from 169time, I have 3 US made DVHS 30000's and 1 Japan made 35000. These JVC decks are so much better than the old Panasonic units. One of the features lacking from the JVC units not mentioned in your article is non ability to time shift the recorders from the I link. One would never see this in your testing unless you use the 169time product since no other firewire STB's exist. Because we found this bug early, 169time was able to modify their product to control the deck which now allows me to do up to 8 timer record periods to the JVC. Another feature that is being worked on is the ability to put the JVC units in parallel or in series to be able to do many recordings at once or as long a time period recording sthat one would want without having to change tapes. I used this setup to record the entire 2 weeks of the Olympics onto DVHS tapes and never had one hiccup. As you article says, tape may not be as sexy as disc, but it exists today and is very cost effective. The next step I am looking forward to is purchasing the new DVHS pre-recorded material that will be shipped with D-Theator encoding. I am glad to see you are more interested in supporting what exists today for the very best it can be!!
Dave Campbell
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