Digital Recorders

 Digital recorders are fully loaded with features including amazing sound quality, lengthy recording durations, and quality memory components that are nowhere to be found in analog recorders. The built-in memory feature enables you to keep a large number of recorded files, which you might have otherwise been forced to put on hundreds of micro-cassettes. Digital recorders are now tiny enough that they can fit in a shirt pocket and run for hours, no cords or wires needed.

Let us consider the two types of digital recorders

Digital Voice Recorders
Using digital voice recorders in every day life has become so commonplace that most people do not even give it a second thought. There are dozens of reasons both professional and personal to use digital voice recorders, whether you need to record important business conversations or just want to have a good time with your friends.

One of the smallest of the digital voice recorders also happens to be one of the largest capacity voice recorders on the market. It is capable of recording up to one hundred-forty hours continuously. And the features on the great little unit go on and on. Not only are they digital voice recorders, but they have a stereo FM radio, and a time and date stamp, Plus they are voice activated, have a flash memory, and can be used as a cell phone recording detector and they also have a land phone recording connector, just to name a few. There is even a dot matrix LCD with blue back light and automatic microphone sensitivity. All of that together with a lapel microphone, stereo earphones, and a USB connector cable and you will have everything you need for many hours of great digital recording.

These new digital voice recorders are not only wonderfully compact, and tape free, but they are capable of recording for a phenomenally long time. For instance, one of these great digital voice recorders is capable of recording for an entire day and a half, which is an unsurpassed, sixty-four hours of recording time. These wonderful little digital voice recorders are only four inches by one inch by one half inch. So it easily fits in your purse, pocket or one of those tiny compartments in your car.

One of the great things about these particular digital voice recorders is that you can use timer to record up to three programs by day, by week or by date. You do this by setting it to voice activation mode and even though it is on, it will not record until it actually detects audio activity. But more importantly, because these digital voice recorders are digital, they begin recording after only one tenth of a second once sound is detected. And with its great 8kps voice sampling rate, these digital voice recorders are highly desirable to private investigators. They record and play back with stunning clarity and accuracy.

These digital voice recorders can be operated on two “AAA” batteries, but they also come with and external DC power supply. They also come complete with USB cable and software for downloading into your computer, variable playback speed, text to speech conversion features, fast forward and rewind control and much more.


Digital Video Recorders
Digital video recorders (DVR) are recording equipment that can record and store digital video on a computer. These can record audio as well as video data from multiple sources.

A DVR is basically a hard drive that can be connected to the computer and to other video sources such as a VCR. It has a tuner which captures the signal using a cable, antenna, or a satellite. The analog signals are compressed and converted into digital signals, which are then stored on the hard drive. A built-in MPEG-2 decoder converts the digital signal back into analog signal when it has to reach the television for viewing. Each DVR has an operating system within the hard drive.

There are several advantages to digital video recorders. They do not require a recording medium like tapes, as the data is stored on the DVR itself. Another main advantage is that the recording and playback can be done at the same time. Using this, even a live program on the TV can be paused, in the sense that the program can be recorded on the DVR and then viewed instead of the live program. However, the space within a DVR is limited, which is its main disadvantage. DVRs also have a live-TV buffer that keeps them in a constant recording mode for an hour or more.

Another interesting feature of DVRs is their search tool, which allows searching of a particular program by name of the program, name of the actors, or even by keywords. Some DVRs can be programmed to record some programs that have certain words in them. DVRs have recording capacities ranging from thirty hours to 320 hours. This also depends on the quality of the stored files.


If you want to buy your own recorder today, it is one of the easiest things. It is a good thing to do some recordings in order to improve our lives. Recording is also a way we can keep our memories fresh with past events. Such events are ones that will never repeat themselves again because they are gone forever.