Recording/copying from SD card slot on TV
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Hi, does anyone know if it's possible, using an SD card inserted into an SD card input on a TV, to somehow record from the videos stored on the card to an external DVD recorder or VHS recorder?.
The TV I have has an SD card slot for viewing to photos/videos that are stored on SD card on the TV. Strangely though, there's no scart socket only HDMI, USB and a few video/audio composite connections. I did get a very short length cable with the TV which has a scart on one end and an HDMI on the other; I've never seen those before. Whether it's possible to hook up the required cables from the recorder to the back of the TV, and somehow record the videos that are being played from the SD card, I've not sure. I assume it would be abit of a hassle to do. I'm just looking for a more direct way of transferring my home videos without the tediousness of converting the files to a playable format. Better still for me, I can archive the videos to VHS as well.
The TV I have has an SD card slot for viewing to photos/videos that are stored on SD card on the TV. Strangely though, there's no scart socket only HDMI, USB and a few video/audio composite connections. I did get a very short length cable with the TV which has a scart on one end and an HDMI on the other; I've never seen those before. Whether it's possible to hook up the required cables from the recorder to the back of the TV, and somehow record the videos that are being played from the SD card, I've not sure. I assume it would be abit of a hassle to do. I'm just looking for a more direct way of transferring my home videos without the tediousness of converting the files to a playable format. Better still for me, I can archive the videos to VHS as well.
It can be done on a PC to record onto a DVD. You can get kit to go from HDMI to SCART but its not cheep.
I think the key question is when playing for file is cheep and easy these days whey you would want it on DVD or VHS.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/BW-HDMI-SCART-Composite-C...
I think the key question is when playing for file is cheep and easy these days whey you would want it on DVD or VHS.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/BW-HDMI-SCART-Composite-C...
The reason is to just transfer the video files in a linear fashion to VHS as I feel the tapes as a back up. Time consuming it may be compared to the digitising and burning from a PC to DVD, or back up tp an HDD, but at least I know the videos aren't going to randomly disappear for no apparent reason on my PC or HDD, or the DVD suddenly becoming unreadable because there's been an airline scratch on them.
As for backing to a cloud storage, no way. Nothing stored on the internet is ever truly private or secure no matter how much they tell you it is.
I find backing up my HD video files to an external medium like DVD a complete pain, because they all need to be converted to a format that can be read on a standard DVD disc. I've spent literally hours converting just half an hour of recording of 1920X1080p (even lower in alot of cases) video files. Most of the software I've used are painfully slow even when I've converted them to a much lower quality, and my laptop is a pretty decent spec.
As for backing to a cloud storage, no way. Nothing stored on the internet is ever truly private or secure no matter how much they tell you it is.
I find backing up my HD video files to an external medium like DVD a complete pain, because they all need to be converted to a format that can be read on a standard DVD disc. I've spent literally hours converting just half an hour of recording of 1920X1080p (even lower in alot of cases) video files. Most of the software I've used are painfully slow even when I've converted them to a much lower quality, and my laptop is a pretty decent spec.
Give it five years or so and we'll have another post from the OP asking where he can get a TV that doesn't just have HDMI connectors as he'd like to watch his terrible quality videos.
Buy a big hard drive and copy the files to that. You can pickup 1TB SSD's for £100. Buy a couple of them if you're paranoid. Job done.
Of if you need more space buy a couple of 3Tb drives. Make two copies of everything and give one to your friend to keep securely for you. No need for the cloud.
Buy a big hard drive and copy the files to that. You can pickup 1TB SSD's for £100. Buy a couple of them if you're paranoid. Job done.
Of if you need more space buy a couple of 3Tb drives. Make two copies of everything and give one to your friend to keep securely for you. No need for the cloud.
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