On September 24, 2007 at 08:24, bookaroni said...
You can put a
show on the hard drive, edit out the commercials, then
record to DVD.
I'd be copying from a DVR to the DVD recorder. If I'm quick with the PAUSE button on the recorder, can I edit out the ads that way? I know I wouldn't have an edited version on the DVR that I could then copy in full, and any sloppy edits would require me to start over, but can the PAUSE on the DVD recorder be used that way?
You also said:
"make discs of TV shows from my non-HD DVR for later play."
Technically this machine is a DVR. Just not a satellite
or cable box DVR.
True. That's just like today's TiVo. Most people would prefer a TiVo to a DirecTV DVR, and TiVo has new units out. But they don't have satellite receivers in them and I think they can't control satellite receivers, so just saying TiVo doesn't communicate the whole story. In fact, I guess, technically a DVD recorder that doesn't have a hard drive is a Digital Video Recorder as well. It Records Video Digitally, after all. We've just gotten used to using that term only with the devices that have hard drives.
