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What it allows you to do is record a program without using the precious hard drive until you NEED to. If the program you recorded on the DVD- Ram disc stinks you erase. Ram discs are supposed to last for 100,000 burns. If you like it and want to keep it then you can burn to HDD and then burn to the cheaper DVD-R disc. Those +RW and -RW discs cost a lot more if you want to keep that recording. Is there a Sony that will do this? Pioneer, Toshiba? This is very valuable for certain programs you record in your absence but really are uncertain how good they are. This happens constantly. Ram is good Baby. And to top it off I believe, if it is one hour or less done High speed, the dub is lossless unlike any other dvdr can do. I can think of several great one hour News documentries or great Mad TV episodes where this would come in very handy. I realize a lot of you veterans know this but since we have newbies on this board every day it cannot hurt to elucidate again. Bottom line -you can save the hard drive and use the portable Ram drive to save,record,erase, input to Hard drive and burn what you want and delete.-whatever- it makes a non hard drive DVDR seem worthless. No, They already ARE.
PS I hope no one brings up the tivo that loses big time in transfer and absolutely cannot do what the E-80 can- in fact even the new cable or sat ones this year cannot. Tivo resolution sucks and cannot burn a 2 or 3 hour movie as the E-80 can. These Tivo people are on something illegal.
PS I hope no one brings up the tivo that loses big time in transfer and absolutely cannot do what the E-80 can- in fact even the new cable or sat ones this year cannot. Tivo resolution sucks and cannot burn a 2 or 3 hour movie as the E-80 can. These Tivo people are on something illegal.