Comments on: Low-tech TV recording secrets of 'The Daily Show'

Thanks to a commenter on PVRBlog, it's revealed that The Daily Show actually uses a rather low-tech solution to gather clips for the show: 15 rack-mounted TiVos.

[kswa1987]

i'm pretty surprised by this... i certainly hope they upgrade in the coming months and of course transition to HD

[robd11]

All I care about is the transition to HD. I guess they will have to go and buy 15 HD Tvio's?

[miahz]

This was mentioned briefly the other day in a NYTimes article about Jon Stewart.

In my experience, it's never good to change up equipment on game day. And on a show like this, every day is game day. Without personnel to install and test stuff, it's best to just stick with what works.

[shopkins82]

It seems Series 2 or Series 3 with network transfers instead of dubbing to Beta could/would work well... especially using Series 3 files after the digital transition (if they're not already broadcasting in digital and letting the cable companies convert to analog on their end).

[jabailo]

It ain't broke, so...

[ssampier]

It sounds fine by me; most companies don't buy tech for the sake of tech (duh). I have concerns about beta, though. I am surprised they can still get Betamax tapes in this day and age. It sounds like a risky tech strategy.

[miahz]

Pretty sure it's referring to Betacam not Betamax. Betacam is the industry standard in tv/news; Betamax is the consumer format that lost out to VHS.

[konfuzion]

Why does it matter if I think they should use Tivo? Are the CNET heads trying to get us to interact with every article now even though nobody could possibly care about what we have to say?