Posted by GMAN on 10/01/06 17:39

In article <451ff61a.69661250@news-server.houston.rr.com>, spam@uce.gov wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:11:21 GMT, glenzabr@nospam.xmission.com (GMAN)
>wrote:
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>>Heres the user manual
>>http://www.polaroid.com/media/com/text/products/petters/drm-2001g_fa37.pdf
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>>http://www.videohelp.com/dvdrecorders.php?DVDnameid=1666&Search=Search&list=1
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>After having surveyed the offerings available for hard disk DVDRs that
>play MPEG4, I am disgusted with the whole thing. It's all just a bunch
>of cheap crap, some of it with a not-so cheap price tag. Hopefully
>having the hard disk will relieve the wear and tear on the DVD
>assembly, but then there is no guarantee that the hard drive assembly
>will hold up.
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>I am about two steps from just building my own unit based on personal
>computer components. The one thing that stops me is the lack of a
>reliable operating system that supports two channel TV recording
>simultaneously for shows that are on at the same time.
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>If anyone knows of any resources for making PC-based unit, please let
>me know. In the meantime, I may just get that Polaroid DRM-2001G along
>with an extended warranty from WalMart. I have not found anything
>better for the price. Maybe Philips got the bugs out by now. They are
>the GE and Matsushita of Europe so they must be doing something right.
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Take a look at MythTV, you could pick up a couple of low cost HDTV tuner cards
from Ebay and use it with Myth and basically have a Tivo like setup on your
computer capable of recording in HDTV and burning to DVD.

http://www.mythtvtalk.com/mythtv.php

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