I'm looking for some suggestions on a Personal Video Recorder device. I found myself in a situation where I would really have loved to have made a digital video tape from a kick ass source - the HD camera setup that was feeding the trinitrons at a Bon Jovi concert at Soldiers Field in Chicago. The band that I archive for was opening the show, and were told "hey, if you have a video camera or something, I can patch you guys into the video mixer". D'OH! I got a great audio tape, but could have gotten an amazing, authorized video tape as well. As the band gets bigger, we'll want to start taping video performances, too.
Short of buying a camcorder, does anyone reccomend any MP3 stye recorder that will simply patch a video source and take DVD quality recordings, perhaps to a hard drive or Compact Flash setup? I get the impression a decent PVR will run $200 or so, while a camcorder would go closer to $400 or $600.
Thanks in advance, let me know if this concept is just crazy, or if anyone here does anything like this.