VCR to Video Hard Drive Recorder project

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As part of my suggestion, since video cassette recorders are past and obsolete, may I suggest they can convert to a hard drive video recording and playing project replacing the video cassette loader with a 4TB internal hard drive. Do not forget with other improvements using the reverse button to choose past recorded video and fast forward button to choose next recorded video. Even adding a HDMI input and output for recording hard drive videos for Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360 and PS3 involving recording game video even for Twin Galaxies. I tried my best specifying this, hope this might happen.

beacon_dave · Answer

This sounds a bit like what an off-the shelf a PVR / DVR device would do. Some DVRs will record to a USB memory/hard drive like this one from Datavideo: https://www.datavideo.com/product/HDR-1 or alternatively to a SD card. If you are after it more for gaming then you may also be interested in something like this: https://cpc.farnell.com/startech/usb2hdcaps/video-capture-usb2-0-hdmi-1080p/dp/CS29007 which can also live stream to the likes of Twitch, although playback operations would appear to have to be done through a connected PC. (Note that anything using HDMI for input capture is likely to encounter HDCP copy protection at some point. An increasing number of devices have it turned on by default even when playing back non-encrypted content.)

beacon_dave · Answer

Something a bit like this project perhaps ? https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/digitising-reels-pi-film-capture/

balearicdynamics · Answer

Hey Kelly, I am sorry I have disappeared for a while but I continue following the threads and discussions. Unfortunately, my time become very short during this troubled month of April. About your idea, It is something I have in mind, also considering that Gent is the Europe capital of vintage I have plenty of choices of nice VCR to disassemble. I was thinking to use this https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/raspberry-pi-hdmi-input-allows-hd-recording-video-14-03-2014/ as the input source, adding something original than a normal hard disk video recording. What do you think? I will do this project anyway as it is one I will publish on the book for makers I am working on. (The mentioned example is just an example, as the kickstarter project is stopped and probably it is forever, but I saw several boards like this that can be managed without difficult) Cheers.

balearicdynamics · Answer

This is a second option, maybe better for some kind of users with a restricted budget. It a telecine device based on Raspberry PI and a vintage 8 / super-8 film projector that needs changes and updates, like frame synching and better backlight.

VCR to Video Hard Drive Recorder project

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