Anyone currently own a SET TOP DVD RECORDER?

[Nocturnal]

I am very interested in getting one but they are still very high in price. Does anyone currently own one and can you tell me how good they are compared to regular VHS'?

Thanks in advance and good-bye!

 

[Spoooon]

I think there was a thread asking this question earlier today.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
I think there was a thread asking this question earlier today.

Good memory

I don't think I'll buy one until they become as common place as DVD Player which is probably a few years away, maybe late 2005.

However I do own a $59 DVD Burner

 

[IGBT]

I see them on newegg's site. Panasonic with a 80gig drive. I don't watch much tv so I don't need one...

 

[MithShrike]

I don't have one but I know someone who does. They say if there's a DVD for what you want to record go buy the DVD because it is of higher quality.

 

[slackerinabox]

I owned one and sold it on ebay... It was an earlier model that used DVD-RAM media.. There were so many loops to hoop through that it just became tiresome.. What I wanted to do was record stuff off of my TIVO and onto DVD ram for archival, copy it over to the pc and then edit the commercials out before mastering onto cheaper dvd-r media. Capturing was easy - hit record.. Getting it onto the PC was a major b1tch.. First off, most dvd-rom drives do not support DVD-RAM.. I had to track one done that read them (made by toshiba).. Then the recorded video is not in standard mpeg2 or dvd format (with a \video_ts\ and ifo structure).. So I tracked down a converted that worked 85% of the time.. So then I could get to editing out the commercials.. I did it once and got so tired of the process that I just gave up.. I actually bought it hoping to transfer my sister's wedding onto DVD and then cleaning it up a bit (adding menus, etc.).. The recorder did not help and I should have just gotten a high quality capture card...

Things are easier now since most set top boxes record to DVD-r or dvd+r but I still think that they capture to proprietary formats..