jazzbo

I passed. . . but I don't want to take the test again.

Jerry and Mountain Girl 1967

Yes, you do.

They are out there. You also could just get one of the burners with the hard drive. And patch in the VHS to the burner (or the hard drive section, and then from there to the burner) if your machine can hold up long enough to do the transfers. . . .

If you REALLY want to record and then erase tv shows. . . I would pay a bit more and get one of the models with a hard drive copying system. Copy to the hard drive, watch, erase.

With dual layer DVD + discs (the - discs don't come in dual layer) you can supposedly get 14 hours total capacity. Quality of the image is going to be a bit compromised. . . . I haven't tried it. I have been doing burns of 60 minute, 90 minute or 120 minute lengths, the quality of the image and sound is very good at these "speeds."

I'm with you. As great a job as RVG has done on the early recordings for the label, I'd love to see RVGs of all the Hodes material. It's wonderful stuff! Cool artwork on the originals too!

Liner notes are okay. Not exhaustive. But sufficient. (I'm less and less a fan of liner notes. Only about a half dozen a year are really great. Last great set of liners I read was Chris's for the Basie Mosaic set.)

The iTunes are clones of the Japanese releases. Quite a deal in my opinion for the price.

Many more happy ones!

Actually the best sounding versions of the Charles material I have heard is on the Nighttrain label (legitimate owners of the material, really careful remastering). I sold my Fresh Sounds box when I heard that!

I now have this Sony VCR/DVD Recorder and am quite happy with it, RDR-VX515. One touch dubbing of vhs to dvd or vice versa. Uses + and - media. Picture quality is good. Maybe not the best, but definitely suitable for my use and in its best quality mode as good as the source tape at least as far as I can tell on my old Sony 17" tv and my laptop. Reads all cdrs, dvdrs, mp3 cds, etc. The sound is really great, the best sound I've had from a dvd player. Transferring a lot of jazz stuff on vhs that I really don't watch much but can and will now, on my laptop, or can play them for sound in my Sony SACD/DVD player in the main listening rig. One really nice thing for me is that I was able to remove three other machines from the system with this one: my vcr, my Toshiba dvd player, and a Philips cd recorder I was using as a transport to feed my HHB Burnit cd recorder. This one machine does all that I needed from those three. Here's the circuit city page: http://www.circuitcity.com/rpsm/oid/128220...DetailReview.do Listening right now on my main listening rig to a dvdr of the Randy Weston live at St. Lucia vhs tape I had. Sounds great!

One of my discs of the Plugged Nickel box set has the appropriate Miles matrial on it. But the silkscreening was applied OVER the silkscreening of a Mariah Carey cd! Miles might have gotten a chuckle out of that. . . .