[Thulani]

Originally Posted by vladsmythe

Logistically that is a nightmare. I don't need more equipment in my bedroom. Also, I watch what I transfer while I party with friends, so it's a social thing too. I'm cool with AC3. It's not as if it's audio tape. It's all compressed TV via cable anyway. If anyone wants to upgrade the audio portion of any of my vids they can knock themselves out. I think most of my torrents are kind of obscure though.
Thanks for the help. If anyone knows of a standalone that does LPCM let me know. I'll buy it, and sacrifice the video quality and do them at a lower bitrate.

I don't have experience with tape transfers, but I think you can preserve video quality & record to LPCM. You just need to do 2 transfers of the same tape. 1st transfer you'll do it with high video quality (8000kbps) & loosy sound, & 2nd transfer you'll do it with low video quality & lossless sound. Then you demux the shows & remux with the better part from the two transfers.
If I'm wrong with something, I'm sorry.