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Sunday, July 26, 2009

B&W

Attempting to get some material off of the Sky+ box drove GF to reviewing several options and in so doing reminded him of a gadget that he acquired several years ago. This Hauppauge box allowed video to be captured directly as MPEG files. After a lot of digging abou the box was retrieved, the software downloaded and reinstalled and cables were plugged into all of the appropriate sockets. A few moments later the video was streaming down to the computer and all seemed promising... until the Gorse Fox realised that the image was only being captured in black and white.

This reminded the Gorse Fox that when he had been trying to save some old VHS recordings he had experienced a similar problem, but thought it was related to the the tape player rather than the gadget. It was evidently the gadget.

Back to the drawing board.

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