TV Tuners

[coeus01]

This may seem like a silly idea but can you get a TV tuner that connects directly to the CD-ROM?
So when the news starts it can be directly burnt instead of being put on the HDD for later use...

 

[ed21x]

you can try some type of packet writing software (ie directCD or inCD), and then disignate the destination directory to be a folder in your CD drive. But i havn't tried it yet

 

[Gaunt]

You could use the way ed21x suggests, and make sure to compress to MPEG while you're recording, as an AVI will fill the CD in no time at all... Also, when a CD is formatted with DirectCD (not sure about inCD, but most likely the same), you lose about 100MB (for a 650MB CD) so you have less room for your video.

Basically, I haven't seen this done, and it's probably going to be more trouble than it's worth. You would need a quick CD Burner, and a quick machine to do the encoding in realtime. You'd probably have to buffer most of the data on your drive and wait for it to burn to the CD anyways, so the solution wouldn't save you from using your drive... if you were just trying to avoid the step of having to burn later, it might work fine, but considering it takes so little time to drag a file onto the cd layout and burn, it's probably not worth it.

Anyhow, that's mostly speculation... seemed like an interesting topic when I came in, so I thought I'd write something.

 

[bravesfan258]

You may want to check out Snapstream.com. They have a TV-recording product that supports burning to CD's, but I think you still need to save the show to your hard drive first.