[hitechluddite]

Ok, I guess working 60hrs a week the past 2 yrs has put me behind the curve. I just found out about standalone HDD based direct video playback/recorders. Seems to me you could take your timeshifted movie or show off your PVR and transfer it to your 1TB HDD standalone and be done with it. Carry it to your computer and connect it via USB to make a backup of your HDD and you are set. These devices support a variety of formats and some offer many output options, HDMI, Component, S-Video etc. Looks like for the price of a mid level Standard DVD recorder you can make DVD's obsolete. Anybody using one of these to record off a PVR? Are they locked out or will they record anything a regular DVD will? What's the quality like?

I just bought 100 Taiyo Yuden DVD-R's a couple months ago but it wouldn't break my heart if I didn't have to use them!

 

[aronsonstack]

So you bought a dvd recorder to record shows off of your PVR? Is that what you're saying?


I have a tivo HD dvr and I also have a Philips DVD recorder that has a built in 160gb hard drive. Ever since I got my tivo, I haven't touch the Philips. I'm not aware of a dvd recorder that can record HD quality, so once you start recording HD, you'll never want to go back to making dvds with crappy standard definition. You can transfer your tivo recordings to your PC and author a dvd from your desktop.

 

[jordan2x3]

Yes digital content will destroy the DVD format, but don't expect content providers to stay on the sideline with their arms crossed. They'll find a way to screw everyone with some sort of DRM.

 

[hitechluddite]

I'm not overly concerned with HD format, other than the aspect ratio which marketing has tried to morph HD into in some cases IMHO. Good ol standard def Digital SAT is good enough for me. I have a 500GB HDD full of movies right now and about 250GB of Music videos, 120GB of Audio MP3's plus some TV series that I have stripped the comercials from that I can transfer from DVD. If I get a 1.5 terabyte HDD everything should fit with some room to spare. I'm looking at a Masscool 1370, they are the OEM for the seagate media player. It will recrod and playback. Do these devices usually automatically play all the video files in a directory or do you have to create playlists?