Hi,

The club I work in has full contact boxing type fights once
in a while, and we have three camera positions recording
them. We want to have instant reply type capability, but
all that looks too expensive. Are there any resonably
inexpensive ways of doing it?

rewind the camera and playback the section you want.

<Harry@no.spam> wrote in message
There are DVD recorders with either a hard drive, RAM disc, or DVD-RW disc
that can record and play back while they are recording.  I think you would
probably only be able to record one camera on a unit at a time.  Pioneer and
Panasonic make such units.

<Harry@no.spam> wrote in message
With computer equipment now being so ridiculously cheap (my son-in-law
recently purchased at 250 gigabyte external USB2 hard drive for around £80)
why not just capture it onto a laptop which would provide an almost perfect
instant slow, pause and playback facility.

In rec.video.dvd.tech on Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Ivan wrote :
Makes you think - my first HD was 2,500 times smaller than this, and
cost 5 times as much.

That's 12,500 times cheaper in only about 15 years!

Paul Hyett wrote:
Recently bought a 160 Gig internal drive for US $25 at Bestbuy. It was
featured on Slickdeals.net. Had to wait for rebates but did receive them.

Also bought a new computer from CompUSA for $125 with a 100 gig drive in
it also featured on CompUSA with rebates.

Bob Miller

JamieS wrote:
Show quoteHide quote   I've had it with rebates. My last hard drive featured a rebate. I
ended up waiting for 7 months until I got the crused thing. Even then, I
had to phone the assholes and bug them about it.

     jason

The new breed of hard-disk vcr substitutes might have a convenient
"time-shift" feature.

Not that I approve of "sports" consisting of what would, in the
street, be classed as common assault.

In article <1hssu11mvol1jq202jc6rmq301dhtt6***@4ax.com>, Laurence Payne
wrote:
A good idea. Unlike a tape system, a disk recorder can play back
sections while maintaining an uninterrupted recording, so you could
have "action replays" during the fight but without missing any of it,
and jump back to "real time" whenever you like.

(Note that they can't all do this, as some can only record from their
own digital tuners, so check that the one you want has a video input).

Neither do I, but at least there would be plenty of evidence.

Rod.

In article <r40su11j4nrlpa2ab5sb2p89bdpf2vb***@4ax.com>,
<Harry@no.spam> wrote:
Since you have 3 cameras it makes things a bit more of a challenge.

Reading the specs on the Hauppauge 500 series card - which has two
tuners - it also indicates it has headers for two A/V inputs. You
can put several of these cards into a PC for direct recording to a
hard drive.

So two cards should be able to give you 4 A/V inputs.  WIth
a decent sized hard drives you'd be able to record the video
continually from all three cameras. 

However I do not know if the system will support replay from the
channel you are recording while you are recording to give you the
instant replay effect.

You might want to check into that.  It looks like it could be the
cheapest way to get what you want/need.

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