Posted by Ben on 12/04/05 17:18

In article <43930984.9115281@news-server.houston.rr.com>, Bob
<spam@uce.gov> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:18:32 -0000, "John Howells"
> <john@howells-99.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> Is that common, only available on some expensive models, or
> >> non-existant?
>
> >Non-existent.
>
> But it will come one day - the networked DVD-HDD.
>
> Throw in a three-channel TV tuner so we can record up to 3 programs at
> the same time and you have the ultimate DVR experience without the
> expense of subscriptions.
>
> Snapstream and Sage have GUIs for making a computer into a DVR. Now
> all we need is a PCI 3-channel tuner card.
>
> Wouldn't you rather have a custom PC doing the work of a DVR?

My father, who is fairly non-computery, is going to buy a DVD recorder,
so I'm looking for something that will meet his requirements (something
that looks like and replaces the video recorder and sits in front of
the TV) but on top of that meets my needs -- burns DVDs from my
computer to back stuff up etc. If it was me I'd just buy a DVD burner
for a computer.

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