Is There a DVR With an HDMI Input?

No HDMI inputs on any consumer recorder.

The Magnavox 513 has a DV input. See this help file for info on DV.

Click #1 in my sig. for lots of other info.

As wajo said, no recorders sold in North America have HDMI inputs. And there probably never will be.

There were a (small) handful that had component inputs a few years back that you can find used.

Yes, even the 513 manual says that, but then the manual has been wrong on a number of other things.

The 513 can record digital CC and, out of curiosity, I'm going to ask in the Main Sticky thread for a volunteer to check something for me: whether the 513 can see and record date/time if the digital CC is turned ON.

I know, lots of theories why this shouldn't work but I'm hoping someone will do a simple test to prove it one way or another... and who knows, maybe someone already has?

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=5269

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=970473

(You didn't say how much you were willing to spend.)

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Isn’t “a consumer recording device with HDMI input” somewhat of an oxymoron? (In the U.S. anyway.)
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There you go.

It's one of those tuner card things that integrates into a HTPC.

http://www.hauppauge.com/

I can not find HDMI inputs on the consumer recorder that i know .[img]http://*******************/3/scared011.gif[/img]

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=5269

Is it possible to buy one, from say Europe, and use here?

Probably not, or you'd hear of people using them on this forum, given the passion for DVD recorders with decent features exhibited.

Which leads me to believe they're not available with HDMI inputs there, either, or there's something inherent in the European and Asian machines that makes them incompatible. Perhaps others can weigh in with the specifics.

I have never heard of one, and I have been looking. If you are successful at this, please let us (at least me) know how you did it.

That device sounds even more interesting now that I have full blown HD with Comcast and a decent Motorola DCX-3200 that has about every output known to man.
Glad my installer was a contract employee that had a truck full of boxes and after seeing my setup asked what output I wanted and decided the 3200 would best suit my needs.
There are other possibilities as far as cable support goes but I haven't seen anything either that directly supports HDMI in. Maybe if the copy police get taken down a few notches things like that may become available for consumers but probably not before that happens.

I wouldn't hold my breath. It's all about what the mass market wants and they couldn't give two flips about HD inputs. The most they care about HD recording is if their DVR can record the latest American Idol, then they're happy. Without the mass market, no one has enough momentum to change anything. That's why the DVD recorder market has been in the toilet for the last couple of years.

Yeah, I know but it would be nice for those of us that would like to make hard copies of the good stuff we like.
I'm mainly using my WDTV live, a HDTV card in my PC, and occasionally one of my burners but mainly I just stuff it on a local drive in here or the networked 1.5tb drive on the media player.
It's so nice not to have to make disks of all my captures now just to watch them on the main TV setup.
Too many folks don't care what happens when their DVR from whoever fills up, or what they're going to do with stuff they might want to keep around.

It's always been that way, though. When VCRs were around, the vast majority used them to playback tapes from the local video store. Those who did use them to record bought maybe one or two blank tapes and just recorded on them over and over until they wore out (that was my parents.) The DVD/Blu-Ray players and cable/Sat/TiVo DVRs took over those markets.

People who archive are a much rarer breed, and the CE industry doesn't like to cater to rare breeds.

I use a Seagate FAT+ player and can transfer anything I record and collect on my TiVo HD, over the network, to my NAS for storage and later viewing. I can stream it to any TV I put a player on. I just ordered another 2TB Seagate drive for my NAS for $99. A 2TB drive holds the equivalent of 400 DVD-R which makes HDD storage cheaper than T-Y optical media. You are already on the right track D-man, burning disks is pretty much obsolete from both a time and cost standpoint.

Well once I saw my friends 400 buck divco super duper media player in action when they very first came out I decided I either needed 400 bucks or a cheaper version that did similar things, then the WDTV live came out so I finally had some extra money and treated myself right after Xmas last year.
I WAS going to save some money and just get the non networked G2 WDTV, glad I decided to step up anther 30 bucks.
I still want the option to make a hard copy if I like but yes at this point as long as I can play and move the files as I please I'm pretty happy, and my disk pile that I may never play or figure out how to organize has stopped growing

Similar to the Geffen, but more affordable, is the Blackmagic Intensity.

Once you have it on your PC or disk farm you can do that any time you want, and once you decide that you really want it permanently.

Yep, have done it a few times already. If it's viewable and on a drive you can do what you want with it after that.
Don't know how far the 1.5 will stretch but I think I still have over half the space left. Been making folders of whatever series it is and putting things in their places. makes it easy to find something later, unlike my piles of DVD's stashed and laying in various places.
WD juts released a new unit that has a internal drive for not a lot more then the original retail of the live was too if somebody wants a cheaper player with internal storage, networking, and external drive ports.
By the time I got the unit, the big external, and all that I might as well of bought a all in one unit and spent about the same but at least it allowed me to use shared local storage till I could afford a external.

I don't think there's any need for an HDMI input... just use component (RGB). Isn't that the same resolution? On the other hand... do you even have RGB input for recording??

What's the difference in resolution, folks?
component (RGB),
composite (red/white/yellow),
composite/S-VHS (red/white/S-VHS)
?

Some devices will not output full HD to component any more, most older ones will so you have to make sure what your box does before you can definitely use component to capture HD.
They have been trying to lock down HD content to DRM protected outputs only and HDMI is one so you need it to be guaranteed access to the full HD output.
My older Motorola 3200 box does component in full HD but pretty sure most of the newer smaller HD boxes are locked down to full HD through HDMI only.