Panasonic HDD Recorder recording with subtitles

moneysaver

SuzieSue wrote: »

Thanks, what I didn't understand was why it couldn't record subtitles without converting it to a smaller file as it means that I have to manually change it from off every time.

Also, have you found a way of protecting recordings to stop them being deleted accidentally? The Sony recorder it replaced used to be able to do this.

Yes to set up protection go to the program recordings, Option on remote>edit>set up protection.

Moneysaver

Nilrem

paddyrg wrote: »

Nilrem, nice references to the glorious analogue days . I wouldn't call NICAM, ceefax or even colour bodges per se, but beautiful bits of retrofitted engineering maintaining back compatibility ;-). ....
Some truly genius engineering (OK, it was all a bit of a bodge, to maintain backward compatibility, but beautiful in it!)

Aye, I call them a "bodge" but like most good bodges they were excellent engineering solutions to improve on an existing system without breaking it, or with limited resources.

It is amazing to see what the old engineers/techs could do with the equipment they had and the ways they worked around the limits without using masses of new stuff or requiring everyone to replace their gear (one of the best books I read as a teen was about the development of one of the early computers, describing how they built it up and the problems and fixes they encountered).

Rodders53

Nilrem wrote: »

IIRC if you used a VRC to record you could get partial ceefax/subs from it, but not guaranteed (as the VCR may not have caught a good enough signal), if you used a good DVR or TV capture card that could accurately capture and store the entire analogue signal it could save the subtitle/ceefax information.

Actually a simple lack of frequency response of the VHS recorder / tape system.
S-VHS machines could reliably record subtitles and most Ceefax pages as they has a greater frequency bandwidth.
DVD-Rs were mostly frequency limited, as well as ignoring all lines before 23 in the 625 line system, so reliably did NOT record subtitles when they encoded analogue into MPEG data.

Digital recorders almost invariably record the total stream for the channel being recorded so can extract audio description and subtitles at will on playback. Those that archive to DVD in differing quality levels, may need to select audio and whether to burn in visible subtitles when re-recording the information.