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Conference metalx::playstation

Title:	Sony Playstation
Notice:	Playstations now $149osite of Workstation?
Moderator:	METALX::SWANSON

Created:	Tue Sep 12 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	118
Total number of notes:	1094

110.0. "recording playstation on vcr ?" by PUXGPX::LHERAULT (Yves - ORG_STILL_CHANGING) Sun Mar 16 1997 19:11

    Hi PSXers
    
    My son is the happy owner of a playstation and wants to show his
    friends some of the final scenes of games. To do so, he is willing
    to record some screenshots coming from the PSX to the VCR. The
    installation is :
    PSX to port 1 of the TV set (through "Peritel")
    VCR to port 2 of the TV set (through Peritel)
    
    He selects the AV1 chanel on the VCR and then begins recording. When
    playing back what he recorded, it cames with some so bad colours and
    picture that it's not suitable for his needs. 
    I'm absolutely unable to explain what happens. I guess there's a
    synchronism problem, but don't know at all if it is possible to record
    so.
    
    Has anyone of you ever succeeded in recording the PSX with an
    acceptable level of quality ?
    
    Thanks for any hints
    
    Yves

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
110.1		FORTY2::BOYES	My karma ran over my dogma	`Mon Mar 17 1997 08:13`	6
	It is certainlly possible on a PAL Playstation: I have the aerial cable and Playstation cable multi-tapped into the RF socket of my video in order to have a single cable leading the three metres to my TV. On a whim I tuned a video channel to the Playstation output and hit record. It works. +Mark+
110.2		METALX::SWANSON	Victim of Changes	`Mon Mar 17 1997 15:38`	8
	I have sucessfully recorded too, using NTSC format. Recorded quality is absolutely perfect. I don't know what a "peritel" is, and I don't know why you are apparently trying to record "through" the TV. I'd go: PSX to Input of VCR. Output of VCR to input of TV. Ken
110.3	Thanks all	PUXGPX::LHERAULT	Yves - ORG_STILL_CHANGING	`Tue Mar 18 1997 11:19`	10
	Thanks for these replies. For clarification, in France, we have SECAM as TV standard, so neither PAL nor NTSC is used. Peritel is another french standard which was set years ago to plug any appliance to the TV. You just have to deal with one cable for connecting something to the TV set. I didn't try any configuration other than the one my son first used. I'll give it some time next weekend. Anyway, thanks for your answers. I know now that it may be feasible. Yves
110.4	INTERNET CONFERENCE	50336::KCHLUPKA	MANGA?$%	`Fri Mar 21 1997 08:17`	6
	Hello, can anyone tell me how to access this conference in the Internet. (Netscape ??)
110.5	I just posted this from Netscape	12368::"swanson@metalx.eng.pko.dec.com"	Ken	`Fri Mar 21 1997 15:48`	9
	re: -1 If you mean from outside of DEC, you can't. But if you're on DEC's internal network, go to http://www-notes.lkg.dec.com/metalx/playstation and you can post from there. Ken [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]